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secpierre34 on 17 June 2013
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Alpha Till said:
secpierre34 said:
 

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AND FOR THE LAST TIME SONY CAN DO CLOUD COMPUTING EVENTUALLY. But people seem to forget they can also do cloud streaming already which in my opinion is better. Cloud computing allows for a 5mb/s average worth of computation. In perspective modern day cpu s perform calculations closer to 20000MB/s. unless internet speed skyrockets while staying cheap, cloud computing is a fallacy, like blast processing. (dont forget about fucking latency)

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@bolded: Where do you get that information from? If you deduce it from the expected mean value of internet speeds, then that deduction is wrong. There doesn't necessarily need to be a correlation between the amount of calculations done in the cloud and the amount of data that will be eventually transmitted.

actually there is. The internet speed was just arbitrary, i have no idea what the US average is but it must be close to that. Any calculation performed in the cloud must be transferred back to the machine. you are confusing cloud streaming like everybody else. You can only receive 5MB/s  data or whatever the consumer has at his/her disposal. Cloud streaming however only fetches back the finalize calculation. Is like watching through a window what has been done. Cloud computing is doing it while staying within the clock cylcle of the machine, which creates another dilemma due to the variation in latency but you can just chose appropriate tasks. Put it this way you can in fact perform crazy calculation in the cloud while receivin at 5MB/s rate data, however you are still limited by what you get. some calculation need more 5mb of data, you can't compress then decompress something already plagued by latency. I get what you are saying but internet speed is the limiting factor. No matter how complex the calculation of the cloud, the 5mb data transfer is the maximum you get.