Meta Computing

TL;DR

Meta Computing introduces a novel paradigm that virtualizes the Internet as a giant, secure, and fault-tolerant computer, enabling on-demand personalized services by harnessing all available online resources.

Contribution

It proposes the concept of Meta Computing, virtualizing the Internet as a 'Network-as-a-Computer' to fully exploit distributed computing resources for diverse tasks.

Findings

Defines the Meta Computing paradigm and its architecture.

Highlights security and privacy features of the approach.

Envisions broad applications for on-demand computing services.

Abstract

With the continuous improvement of information infrastructures, academia and industry have been constantly exploring new computing paradigms to fully exploit computing powers. In this paper, we propose Meta Computing, a new computing paradigm that aims to utilize all available computing resources hooked on the Internet, provide efficient, fault-tolerant, and personalized services with strong security and privacy guarantee, and virtualize the Internet as a giant computer, that is, ``Network-as-a-Computer, NaaC'', or ``Meta Computer'' for short, for any task or any person on-demand.