Networking Your Washing Machine您的網絡洗衣機

Your washing machine or air-conditioning unit could one day be networked in a giant global grid and used to help efforts such as the你的洗衣機或空調機組或許有一天能成為網絡中一個巨大的全球網格和用來幫助的努力，如 SETI@Home搜尋地外文明計劃@主頁 project,項目 Folding@Home的Folding @主頁 , the now ended Lifesaver project, or even ，現在已經結束救生員項目，或什至 LHC@Home複合體@主頁 . 。

Well…not quite, but a simple system for hooking together domestic gadgets that contain a compact computer chip could help save on your power costs by allowing your air-conditioning unit to do weather forecasts, or help you extract the text for your next blog post from your digital dictation machine.嗯...不大，但一個簡單的系統連接在一起的國內產品中包含一個緊湊的計算機芯片可以幫助節省您的電力成本，使您的空調單位做天氣預報，或幫助您提取文字為您的下一個博客帖子從您的數碼聽寫機。

According to Takehiko Demiya, Tomoki Yoshihisa, and Masanori Kanazawa of Kyoto University, Japan, the kinds of compact computers present in modern white goods - washing machines, tumble dryers, refrigerators and even computerised air-conditioning units, have none of the memory capacity nor the processing speed of a standard desktop or notebook computer.據武彥Demiya ， Tomoki良久，並正金澤京都大學，日本，種緊湊型電腦目前在現代白色家電-洗衣機，下跌乾衣機，冰箱，甚至電腦空調單位，已沒有任何記憶能力，也沒有處理速度的一個標準的台式機或筆記本電腦。 They are certainly small chips when compared with the kind of supercomputing power used to control large-scale physics experiments such as the LHC (他們當然是小的芯片相比，這種超級計算能力來控制大型物理實驗，如複合體（ Large Hadron Collider大型強子對撞機 ) fired up recently at CERN, birthplace of the Web. ）最近發射了在歐洲核子研究中心的誕生地網絡。

Writing in International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, Demiya and colleagues outline a plan for creating a Grid, a distributed network, of compact computers, that could help solve many problems despite the shortcomings of white-goods computers.寫作在國際期刊的通信網絡和分佈式系統， Demiya和他的同事計劃大綱建立一個網格，分佈式網絡，小型計算機，可以有助於解決許多問題，儘管缺點的白色貨物電腦。

Anyone who has tried the SETI@Home screensaver or similar downloads, is probably aware that these tools utilize spare power on your computer while it’s online but not in use.任何試圖誰的搜尋地外文明計劃@主頁屏幕保護程序或類似的下載，也許是認識到，利用這些工具零配件功率在您的計算機上，而它的網上而不是在使用中。 With a large task, in this case analyzing radio signals from space, broken down into bite-sized chunks, each desktop computer can tackle a small part of a much bigger problem, with all the results from hundreds of thousands, if not millions of computers, being pooled together.隨著一個大的任務，在這種情況下，無線電信號分析，從空間，分解成一口大小塊，每一台台式計算機能夠處理的一小部分，更大的問題，所有的結果，幾十萬，如果不是數以百萬計的電腦，正在集中。 It is akin to a supercomputer running a computation across dozens of processors.這是類似於一台超級計算機運行計算跨越幾十個處理器。 An unwieldy job becomes manageable.一個龐大的工作變得易於管理。

There is no reason why the concept of distributed computing, or a Grid network, cannot be applied to lesser computers, such as those found in domestic and office devices, other than PCs and iPhones.沒有理由的概念，分佈式計算，或網格網絡，不能適用於較小的電腦，如發現在國內和辦公設備，除了電腦和iPhone手機。 Indeed, the researchers explain the idea of Grid computing has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years because it essentially has no limits.事實上，研究人員解釋的想法，網格計算已經吸引了大量的關注，近年來，因為它基本上沒有任何限制。

The researchers see the potential of a compact computer Grid as helping improve the way such devices themselves work, rather than searching for ET or solving biomedical problems like protein folding.研究人員看到的潛力，緊湊的計算機網格是幫助改善這種裝置的方法本身的工作，而不是尋找素或解決生物醫學問題，如蛋白質折疊。

For instance, some devices, such as solid-state voice recorders, can record one’s voice, but lack the power to do voice recognition either to identify the speaker or convert voice to text.例如，一些設備，如固態錄音機，可以記錄一個人的聲音，但沒有權力這樣做語音識別或者識別揚聲器或轉換成聲音，文字。 These two features would be very useful to a wide range of people.這兩個特點將是非常有用的各種各樣的人。

Similarly, air-conditioning units usually have a thermostat, but a more powerful and energy-efficient system would monitor outside weather conditions and base its output on its forecast.同樣，空調機通常有一個調溫，而是一個更強大和高能效系統將監測以外的氣候條件和輸出基地上的預測。

By networking such devices, the principles of Grid computing could be engaged and allow multiple compact computers to work in parallel to solve sophisticated problems that would normally be only possible with a modern desktop PC.通過網絡這種裝置的原則，網格計算可以參與並允許多個緊湊型計算機並行工作來解決複雜的問題，這通常是唯一可能與一個現代化的台式機。

The team has developed a new grid computing system using the compact computers that are embedded in many home electronics devices that allows complex tasks to be shared by many networked devices but without interrupting the everyday tasks to which the device is usually dedicated, keeping people cooling, washing dishes, drying clothes etc. Grid networking such devices could lead to their more efficient and effective use as well as opening up the possibility of novel applications.該小組制定了一項新的網格運算系統採用緊湊的計算機嵌入在許多家用電子設備，使複雜的任務是共同的，許多網絡設備，但在不中斷日常工作該裝置通常是專用的，使人們冷卻，洗碗，烘乾衣服等電網聯網等設備可能會導致他們更有效和更有效的利用，以及對外開放的可能性新型應用。

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