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That's a weak argument. Lots of hardware sits idle in the cloud as well. And on your phone its not expensive. In fact, the $/tflop is cheaper on phone than in t
by vinay_ys 4y ago
That's a weak argument. Lots of hardware sits idle in the cloud as well. And on your phone its not expensive. In fact, the $/tflop is cheaper on phone than in the cloud – cloud has to deal with all kinds of complexity that you assume away in your local single-tenant phone context.
- fauigerzigerk 4y agoI wouldn't be so sure. A quick web search brings up average server utilisation numbers for large-scale cloud providers between 45% and 65%. That's probably an order of magnitude or two higher than what you could do on a mobile device without absolutely annihilating the battery.