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A SuperMinds 2014 Talk by Tim Verbelen (iMinds - IBCN – UGent). Currently Cloud Computing is a hot topic in computer science. Recently, with the rising popularity of wearable and smart devices, resources are not only clustered in datacenters, but are also present everywhere around you: Instead of a distant Cloud you are surrounded by a Fog. However, since the beginning of computer networks, people already had the vision of intelligent interconnected devices everywhere. Are we there yet, and what are the challenges still to be tackled?
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When Clouds become Fog
Tim Verbelen
iMinds – IBCN - UGent
Computer networks have the ability to bring the power of large machines
to work on a single problem and to provide reliable computer services
to large populations
- G.C. Bell et al., IEEE Computer, 1970
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SCALE
2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018
Over 6 billion devices are connected to the Internet
10
20 billion devices
HETeROGENeITY
Heterogeneity?
H A O SC
History repeats itself
Roman Empire, 117 A.D.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
- Albert Einstein
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