[oe-sync] Descriptions for the animations at http://openedgecomputing.org/proto/

[Ashlee Young]

Thanks, Kiryong!


> On Oct 6, 2015, at 1:36 PM, Kiryong Ha <krha at cmu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Ashlee,
> 
> I wrote descriptions for the videos at
> http://openedgecomputing.org/proto/ site. It's wordy, so you may want
> to rephrase it. Thanks.
> 
> 
> Description
> 1. Bringing the processing closer to the user
> - In mobile context, interactive as well as resource-intensive apps
> are emerging. e.g. Apple Siri, Google Now.
> - These apps are too expensive to run entirely on a mobile device, so
> they are usually partitioned into a front-end mobile app and a
> back-end server program.
> - And we use today's cloud like Amazon AWS to host the backend server program.
> - However, today cloud infrastructure is suboptimal place because of
> high latency and low bandwidth between a mobile device and associated
> cloud server.
> - The animation shows how Cloudlet can improve the performance of
> those application by bringing the cloud closer to the user
> 
> 2. Discover=> Provision=> Handoff
> - (Nothing to add more here)
> 
> 3. Live Performance Comparison
> - We compare the performance of fluid application which simulate
> liquid sloshing in a big container. Using accelerometer readings from
> a mobile device, it physically models the motion of imaginary fluids
> with which the user can interact.
> - The mobile app transmit accelerometer data and all compute-intensive
> simulation is done at the back-end server.
> - Here we use exactly same back-end server program but one is running
> at cloudlet and the other is running at Amazon West server.
> - The video clearly shows performance difference between two cases in
> terms of responsiveness.
> 
> 4. Background: VM Synthesis
> - (I think it is too detail to show it at the front page).
> 
> 
> --
> Kiryong