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Why haven't they started pushing these jobs down to distributed clients? I'd love to run an Amazon Transcoding app on my PC and earn credit that I can spend to
by klinquist 14y ago
Why haven't they started pushing these jobs down to distributed clients? I'd love to run an Amazon Transcoding app on my PC and earn credit that I can spend toward other Amazon services.
- EricBurnett 14y ago1, privacy - they would have to send you a copy of someone's video for that. 2, I expect the end user bandwidth is worth more than the CPU time you'd provide, so the credits they could give wouldn't be worth it to you.
- klinquist 14y agoWell, there are ways around #1. It seems they could split a video up into enough chunks to make the bandwidth minimal for each party involved (it may not be worth it for /them/, however).
- gosub 14y agoOr they could use homomorphic encryption. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
- Dylan16807 14y agoDo you seriously think you can get any kind of reasonable compression using only operations that are data-independent?
- kevingadd 14y agoVideo encoding tends to rely heavily on previous frames so it's not trivial to split a video into small chunks for encoding and still get a good result.
- wmf 14y agoYou might be insulted when you saw how little they could afford to pay you. The idle time on random PCs is worth less than the overhead cost of managing it.
- freehunter 14y agoBecause they have gigantic, low-cost datacenters. They just don't need you. What they need is to use up the extra capacity on the machines they already have.
- ceejayoz 14y agoThe cost and time of pushing them out over the public internet rather than as internal network traffic, for one.
- jmartens 14y agoWe are working towards something similar at CPUsage....