Google's "cloud" program leaders talk about "cloud computing" secret weapon

As "cloud computing" grows stronger, ordinary end users will likely consume "compute" resources as easily as electricity and water. Krisdorf Bisilia, is pushing this moment to come earlier.

As the head of Google's "cloud" program, Bisilia, who is only 27 years old, has a long blond hair, skinny, likes to laugh with other people to open a relaxed joke, and the mobile phone in his Chinese teacher's photos to let reporters see.

Although Bisilia is far from well-known, but in the fall of 2006, after the launch of Google's new strategy "cloud" by Google's chairman, Schmidt, Bisilia's life has changed dramatically, and even his mother needs to keep up with media interviews to talk about the pieces of his growing experience and his future ideals.

Google's "cloud" program, it started as an education program, but as it expanded, Google discovered that the cloud program could provide students, researchers and businesses with Google-style computing power, whether through Google's own devices or other vendors offering the same services.

And if the plan goes ahead, any student, researcher and enterprise, or even end users, can consume enormous computational resources at a very low cost, almost unthinkable in the original closed PC era.

"Cloud computing" is not a new concept, nor is it the idea of any one person or company, but a change in the way the whole industry thinks, Bisilia in an exclusive interview with reporters.

Google's "cloud" program

When Bisilia persuaded Schmidt to support his "cloud" plan in 2006, it was as easy as his life now, because "cloud computing" was not the idea of any one, but the change of mindset in the industry, and it was time to change.

Why do we have to make such a change? For in just a year or two, the reality is that the amount of data on the internet will grow at a rate of thousand times, and the original computing model and even the data center are unsustainable.

"The project that I am proposing is also a project that our bosses strongly support, and more so that the academic community uses the resources of ' cloud computing '." "This is what he did to promote" cloud computing "in academia, or in schools, Bisilia said.

However, as the project continues to deepen, Google has found that this is just the beginning of a project as an educational program, with expanded to research areas, and even the value of the Enterprise Application field.

"We are working with the National Science Foundation to provide computational resources for researchers involved in data-intensive computing, both within computer science and outside of computer science." "Using these computing resources, college students and researchers can deal with research projects that were almost impossible to implement, because some computational projects are too demanding for computing resources," Bisilia said.

In fact, at the beginning of Google's "cloud" program, it is indeed very challenging. In technology, Bisilia, there are a lot of security, isolation, and data challenges involved in allowing non-Google employees to use computing resources within Google's data center.

And in the non-tech side, Google needs to spend a lot of time trying to change the mindset of college teachers and students to understand and agree with this relatively new method of computing. Bisilia said that for students, they learn how to program a computer or two client server this mode of programming, and now they need to program hundreds of computers, so for these teachers and students, in the way of thinking and knowledge across, We have to go through a very painful stage to adapt.

Although Google's "cloud" program has progressed to help some university teachers and students in scientific research, but still at the initial stage, to allow other companies to apply to Google's "cloud computing" resources, Google has a long way to go.

Promoting China's "cloud computing"

Earlier this year, when Mr. Schmidt visited China, he signed an agreement with Tsinghua University to launch a "cloud computing" course at Tsinghua University.

According to Google related people, Tsinghua University, the first training course enrollment, students are enthusiastic, hope to take this course, and finally have to decide who can participate in the training by lottery.

In collaboration with Tsinghua University, the focus of both teaching and research is on map reduce distributed document systems, and so on, while others related to "cloud computing" include Aject, Java script, XML and web-based application development, and so on. "These are important for ' cloud computing ' and you can't teach students how to program ' cloud computing ' through a course. Bisilia said that "cloud computing" is a fundamental challenge to the original computational thinking, it is not just a course, a company or a software can change, it takes a long time to reverse.

Today, Bisilia has half the time in China and half the time in the United States. Not only did he study Chinese, but he also asked his Chinese friends to take a Chinese name, "Long Zhiyun", and to solicit the views of journalists. Bisilia's idea is to find a foundation with the Chinese official background, with a strong financial strength, to co-sponsor some of the university's research projects with Google.

"With the American side of the expansion of our project, there are more and more people, not all of the work is done by me, but by many other people to help me work in the United States." "What he's going to do now is to share Google's technology with more people," says Bisilia. "It's easier and easier for me to go there and do it myself." ”

Bisilia that Google has so far been stunning about the performance of Chinese students involved in the course.

"Over the next year, we would like to see more students from other universities, besides Tsinghua University, participate in the study and research of cloud computing," he said. "Bisilia said.

"I'm very happy about this, but I don't have much change in my daily life," he said. "Of course my mother must be very proud of me," Bisilia said. ”