This document discusses the benefits of distributed low latency micro data centers. It makes three key points: 1) Latency matters greatly for applications like gaming, e-commerce, and autonomous vehicles, and will become even more important as technologies like 4K video and autonomous cars grow in the next 5 years. 2) Vertical scaling of centralized data centers has limits, so a distributed solution is needed to provide speed, proximity, flexibility, availability, and latency under 100 milliseconds. 3) A distributed "Cloud & Heat Compute Grid" of micro data centers located within 1 millisecond of end users can provide low latency, flexibility, security, resiliency, and reuse of water and heat resources to power edge applications

1. Distributed Low Latency Micro
Data Centers
by Jens Struckmeier, Cloud and Heat Technologies

2. Motivation
„whoever controls latency will control
cloud computing“
Victor Bahl, Director@MSR, 2015

3. Latency
• Latency matters:
• Amazon: every 100ms, 1% drop revenue
• Yahoo: 500ms latency increase, 30% drop in traffic
• Gaming: 5ms ok vs 80ms - degradation in user experience
• …
Christof Fetzer, Systems Engineering Group, TU Dresden

4. All this will massively grow in the
next 5 years
4K

6. A Chart

7. © NTT,
Japan
© NTT, Japan

9. 1.
Cooling Towers at Google's Data Center in The Dalles, Oregon
Vertaulich

10. Vertical scaling always has a limit

11. You need a solution which provides…
Security ResiliencySpeed & Latency
FlexibilityProximity Availability
100%

12. Speed of light is the limit…
200km / ms

13. Meet the Cloud & Heat Compute Grid

14. Why is Distributed better?

15. Millions of Years of Evolution
Slice and Distribute – Why can’t you just download your brain?

16. Speed
Proximity & Latency

17. Speed - Proximity
Latency – the limit is the speed of light

18. Transportation
• Offloading computations to edge cloud:
• Recognize traffic signs (safety critical)
• Recognize pedestrians & danger (safety critical)
• Platooning of cars (safety critical)
• Reduction in Energy Consumption of electric cars
• …
Christof Fetzer, Systems Engineering Group, TU Dresden

19. Lifetime?
Life Expectation:
servers: 3 yrs (data centers)
car: 18 yrs ;
truck: 24 yrs
motorcycle: 28 yrs
Christof Fetzer, Systems Engineering Group, TU Dresden

20. Lifetime!
Christof Fetzer, Systems Engineering Group, TU Dresden
• Problem:
• how can we run new / updated
services on old computer hardware?
• Approach:
• offload some / service to edge cloud

21. Security Resiliency
Flexibility Availability
100%

22. Imagine, if the Empire had the Cloud & Heat Grid

23. Resiliency - Availbility

24. The future of compute is
distributed.
cloudandheat.com

25. Mini Data Centers
- no further than 1ms away from you
PUE 1.01
high temp 55°C
water
cooled
&
heat
reuse
100 Systems
in the field

26. Low latency
water cooled
edge cloud
SCALE 11 63/3

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