The era of cloud computing: Information management system through energy consumption

It engineers rarely design a system from the perspective of entropy. In fact, engineers in other fields do not seem to consider the entropy factor when designing a new system. The potential for such imagination is the capital market system, energy and the degree of understanding of entropy.

At present people are not worried about energy, they believe that they can provide enough external energy for these products in their time of concern. Carmakers, for example, believe that the current oil can guarantee the normal sale of the products they produce.

Under the selfish capital market system, people only need to care about the wealth brought about by the products, and do not need to care about the negative harm to the society. Apple, for example, cares only about how much money the product can make, and does not consider the consequences of an increase in the entropy of the Human survival system (constant replacement of products, mass production of rubbish, etc.).

People's understanding of entropy is relatively superficial and may not realize the true meaning of entropy. Although physicists have come up with a universally accepted assumption that the universe is an isolated system, the initial universe is a low entropy system, and then it begins to shift to the high entropy system and finally to the dead. But it is also possible to make another assumption that the universe is not an isolated system that can restart an entropy cycle through external energy. In the Earth's biological system, for example, if the sun does not provide the energy, and when the energy from the plant completes a cycle, the biological system will be dead, but because the sun provides external energy, so the biological system can continue to cycle.

As a continuous running software PRODUCT, although it is an engineer-designed information processing system, entropy can also be used as a criterion to determine whether the system is reasonable. If the operation of a system is entirely dependent on external energy, then the system consumes the external energy is the largest, if a system can be through internal energy differences to run automatically, and the external energy is only used to start an internal cycle of the initial state, then the consumption of external energy will be reduced a lot. The longer the internal loop process, the less external energy it consumes, the better the system will be.

So in the era of cloud computing, people can judge the excellence of an information management system from the amount of energy consumed.

1. Google search

It's not just because he has a lot of wealth, but because he has the most information in the world. Through the processing of information, Google not only obtains material wealth, but also can reach the goal of controlling the people and bring information panic. Google street map, for example, exposes a sensitive event to the public.

Google's technological innovation and entrepreneurial dynamism have enhanced its ability to compete in the cloud era, making it possible to become the information hegemon of the cloud. But to achieve this goal, Google needs to consider the energy consumption of the product. Because to the future cloud computing era, without external energy replenishment, the Earth system within the effective energy is decreasing, the human need to adopt new science and technology to prevent the trend of increasing entropy in order to ensure the vitality of the living environment.

The current Google product system is a disorganized, uniform distribution of the high entropy system, so the system is basically the operation of the external supply of energy to complete, such as searching a village of potato information, and search the village's superior area of the potato information, the process is isolated, each search requires the external energy drive.

According to online sources, Google consumed 2.3 Billion-kilowatt of the electricity in 2010, about 210,000 U.S. households a year of electricity consumption. And this energy consumption is increasing every year.

2. IBM Intelligent City

IBM, with its vast patent technology, will be one of the major competitors in the cloud computing era. Smart city, as its main product of the cloud computing strategy to realize the wisdom of the Earth, fully embodies the level of IBM's global leadership.

However, the shortcomings of the current intelligent city system make it impossible for IBM to achieve its strategic goal of intelligent Earth. The main reasons are as follows:

(1) Intelligent cities are isolated systems that cannot form a global information ecosystem. For example, some cities in China are building intelligent cities, through information systems to manage and solve problems in the real system and improve efficiency. But these urban systems are isolated, and each system operates under an independent external energy drive.

(2) The information distribution of each specific system is disordered, homogeneous and in high entropy state. For example, the medical system, people, drugs, hospitals, medical institutions, such as the distribution of information is uniform, so can not rely on internal energy differences to flow, each processing need to be driven by external energy to complete.

3, Taobao

China's huge market demand has provided a fertile ground for cloud computing and has given China's cloud-computing companies an opportunity. But for China's domestic companies, which are not controlled by foreign capital, while making a lot of money, they need to confront the brutal fact that the ultimate competition in cloud computing must be the core technology. If you can not master the core technology of cloud computing with independent intellectual property, no matter how glorious it is now, it will eventually become obsolete.

Taobao is a legend created by Ma Yun. Taobao's success comes from his understanding of various factors in the market environment, such as Chinese culture, Chinese mentality, local government needs, public opinion and so on.

Online data show that Taobao's current number of stores more than 6 million. These shops are distributed in a disordered, evenly spaced space and are a highly entropy system. Because Taobao has only one public information display platform (Portal entry page), the vast majority of shops are isolated, and only a handful of shops can be recommended on the display page. The degree of activity of a store depends on how much energy is provided externally. Energy refers to the owner's pay, such as advertising, and other sites to exchange links, recommend to users, and constantly change good products.

4, billion league 258 nets

Billion 258 network is the Beijing Universe Chemicals company developed Cloud Computing Web site system. As one of the member units of China's cloud computing Technology and Industry Alliance, the company now has hundreds of core technologies for cloud computing, and in 2007 applied for 12 original foundation inventions, two of which were authorized in 2012. Some core technical methods involve basic scientific theoretical methods, such as the nonlinear processing of natural numbers, which will revise the 5 axiomatic systems of the natural numbers, and the natural numbers described by the crust are only 0-order representations of nonlinear methods. , for example, the IP address tree approach will create an unlimited IP resource system that includes IPV4 and IPV6 addresses, helping people solve the crisis of network system crashes resulting from increased space pressure.

Billion 258 network is an orderly, uneven and low entropy information ecosystem constructed by using the geographic location service technology of the hierarchy structure. According to the existing administrative management method, the original information is distributed in the highest position. Taking China as an example, the distribution of geographical location tree is the--> Village (neighborhood) of--> Township (Street office) of--> County,--> District,--> Province, China. Among them, China is the root, at the lowest level of structure, the lowest potential energy, the village in the highest position of the tree, the highest potential energy.

According to the rule of entropy, for an isolated system, if there is no external energy drive, the information at high position will flow automatically to the low level under the potential energy. Therefore, in the billion 258 Web site system, will be through the 6-level energy difference to form a life cycle.

When the information comes to the lowest point, that is, the Chinese level of the site, the system becomes a high entropy system, and the current Taobao system, like the need to expend a lot of energy to drive the system's operation. But because there are different information collections at different levels of administrative regions, users can get the information they need at different levels. As with the Earth's water system, although people can not directly from the sea to obtain the necessary water, but the different levels of water storage system to obtain the necessary water, such as wells, ponds, streams, rivers, rivers, sea and so on.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)