Project Aura Dartmouth College项目光环达特茅斯学院.pptVIP

Achieving Ubiquity throughHardware Virtualization Mahadev Satyanarayanan School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Essence of Weiser’s Vision Creation of computing environments that “are saturated with computing and communication” “yet gracefully integrated with human activities” We have done a great job on #1 We have hardly scratched the surface on #2 at best, we have created potentially useful components e.g., context awareness toolkits, smart space toolkits, sensing and activity inferencing toolkits, OS extensions for application-aware adaptation and transparency to disconnections and weak connectivity, ? but “gracefully integrated” ? ? Moore’s Law Reigns Supreme Glaring Exception Integration, Deployment Scaling - I Wide interfaces ? external complexity ? brittle abstractions Hard to deploy, hard to sustain, hard to scale Cautionary lesson of process migration 1983 to 2011, PhD theses roughly every 5 years not supported by any production OS today (open or closed) great idea whose time has never come! Will our pervasive computing abstractions suffer the same fate? Integration, Deployment Scaling - II Contrast the wild real-world success of VM migration VMs are a key enabler of cloud computing widely used production-quality implementations Can we harness hardware virtualization in pervasive computing? VMs transform external complexity into internal complexity replace highly mutable interfaces with a very stable one software virtualization (e.g. JVM) just doesn’t cut it Two example use cases of VMs in mobile and pervasive computing use in cloudlets for cyber foraging use in transient PCs for legacy support Cloudlet = Small Cloud Nearby Transient PCs Our current PC world is a legacy for the new pervasive computing world Extended period of co-existence likely VM-based transient PCs are a key technology for this coexistence * ? 2011 M. Satyanarayanan NSF PeCS Workshop January 27, 2011 Processors Internet Connectivity PC Disk Capacity (GB) ? ? ? ? ? ?