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Information Superbahn: Towards a Planet-Scale, Low-Entropy and High-Goodput Computing Utility

Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100149, China
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In a 1961 lecture to celebrate MIT’s centennial, John McCarthy proposed the vision of utility computing, including three key concepts of pay-per-use service, large computer and private computer. Six decades have passed, but McCarthy’s computing utility vision has not yet been fully realized, despite advances in grid computing, services computing and cloud computing. This paper presents a perspective of computing utility called Information Superbahn, building on recent advances in cloud computing. This Information Superbahn perspective retains McCarthy’s vision as much as possible, while making essential modern requirements more explicit, in the new context of a networked world of billions of users, trillions of devices, and zettabytes of data. Computing utility offers pay-per-use computing services through a 1) planet-scale, 2) low-entropy and 3) high-goodput utility. The three salient characteristics of computing utility are elaborated. Initial evidence is provided to support this viewpoint.

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cloud computingutilizationcomputing utilitylow-entropy systemhigh-goodput computing

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Journal of Computer Science and Technology
Volume 38 Issue 1,
February 2023
Pages 103-114
DOI: 10.1007/s11390-022-2898-7
Cite this article:
Xu Z-W, Li Z-Y, Yu Z-S, et al. Information Superbahn: Towards a Planet-Scale, Low-Entropy and High-Goodput Computing Utility. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2023, 38(1): 103-114. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11390-022-2898-7

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Received: 10 October 2022
Revised: 07 November 2022
Accepted: 02 December 2022
Published: 28 February 2023
© Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2023
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