JOURNAL OF SHANDONG UNIVERSITY(NATURAL SCIENCE) ›› 2023, Vol. 58 ›› Issue (9): 1-15.doi: 10.6040/j.issn.1671-9352.0.2023.168

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Meta computing: a new computing paradigm under zero trust

Xiuzhen CHENG1(),Weifeng LYU2,Minghui XU1,*(),Runyu PAN1,Dongxiao YU1,Chenxu WANG1,Yong YU3,Xue XIAO4   

  1. 1. School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, Shandong, China
    2. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
    3. School of Computer Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, Shaanxi, China
    4. Inspur Group, Jinan 250101, Shandong, China
  • Received:2023-04-23 Online:2023-09-20 Published:2023-09-08
  • Contact: Minghui XU E-mail:xzcheng@sdu.edu.cn;mhxu@sdu.edu.cn

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The popularity of the Internet has had a significant impact on the development of computing paradigms. With the continuous improvement of the new generation of information technology infrastructures, academia and industry have been constantly exploring new computing paradigms to fully exploit computing powers. The huge data generated by massive IoT devices gradually exceeds the processing capability of the high-performance back-end represented by cloud servers. Edge computing alleviates this problem through cloud-edge-end coordination, but there still exist difficulties and challenges such as low computing power utilization, low computing and storage fault tolerance capability, and low integration of computing resorces. "Meta Computing" is a new computing paradigm that aims to break down the barriers of computing powers in a zero-trust environment. It can integrate all available connected computing and storage resources, provide efficient, byzantine fault-tolerant, and personalized services, while protecting the data and user privacy. Furthermere, meta computing can ensure the correctness of results, and realize "the entire network can be regarded as a giant computer for a user", that is, "Network-as-a-Computer, NaaC", which is also called "Meta Computer". The meta computer architecture includes a number of function modules including a device management module and a zero-trust computing management module, as well as the cloud-edge-end device resources. The device management module abstracts massive heterogeneous device resources into objects that can be freely manipulated, while the zero-trust computing management module can transparently allocate computing resources to user tasks according to service requirements, complete the tasks with strong fault tolerance and verifiable outputs, and finally settle accounts. Based on the analysis of the architecture and the functional characteristics of meta computing, we put forward suggestions and advice on the development path of meta computing, that is, transitioning from local to global, and analyze the most-influential future application scenarios of meta computing and provide a reasonable plan for the implementation and development of meta computing in future.

Key words: meta computing, zero trust, network-as-a-computer, meta computer, computing power integration, data security

CLC Number: 

  • TP309

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The development history of the computing paradigms"

Fig.2

Problems of existing computing paradigms"

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meta computer architecture"

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Typical applications of meta computing"

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