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If you have lots of unused storage space on your hard disk, then why not share it with others on the Internet? The benefit could
If you have lots of unused storage space on your hard disk, then why not share it with others on the Internet? The benefit could
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2019-08-01
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If you have lots of unused storage space on your hard disk, then why not share it with others on the Internet? The benefit could be distributed storage for your own files, making them available any time via the web, even if you are nowhere near your computer—indeed, even if your computer is switched off. That idea is what a Zurich-based firm called Caleido is aiming to provide, with a free online storage service known as Wuala that was recently introduced to the public.
【R1】______In particular, its developers, Dominik Grolimund and Luzius Meisser, have used a clever mathematical trick to compensate for the fact that the participating computers will come and go from the internet in an unpredictable way.
【R2】______Copying costs participants both storage space and bandwidth.
Yet there have to be enough copies to ensure that there is at least one available most of the time. If, for example, each computer is online 25% of the time, then a quick calculation shows that you would have to copy each file to 100 different computers to ensure that 999,999 times out of a million there is at least one copy available when a user looks.
【R3】______Instead, Mr. Grolimund and Mr. Meisser plan to break each file into chunks, which can be scattered liberally around the hard disks of participating computers, and then to use a mathematical trick to reconstruct the original file from those chunks.
【R4】______The first step is to convert the file(which is, regardless of what it represents, simply a long string of ones and zeros)into a mathematical function called a polynomial. This is done by splitting it into 100 fragments, which are smaller binary numbers. It is these numbers that are used to define the polynomial. All you have to do is select a suitable number of points from along the polynomial and convert their values into the appropriate mathematical constructs. Scatter these around the host computers and, when someone wants to look at the file, he need recover only 100 of them to have enough data to reconstruct the file from scratch. To have 100 points available 999,999 times out of a million it turns out that you need to scatter a total of 600 of them around. That is an amount of data equivalent to six versions of the original file. Moreover, the system needs the computers linked to it to be available for only 17% of the time, rather than 25% , for this to apply.
【R5】______Most commercial online-storage services use centralized servers. Although these are generally reliable, they do sometimes fail. And when they do, the results are embarrassing.
Though some people may feel sick about scattering their data over hundreds of other computers(even though it will be encrypted), or storing unknown file fragments on their own, Mr Grolimund is sure that Caleido has learnt from other "peer-to-peer" file-sharing systems, and that Wuala is built to handle concerns about the illegal distribution of copyrighted or " inappropriate" content.
[A]This trick, known as Reed-Solomon error correction, is employed routinely to interpret the data on DVDs, but it has not been used before in the volatile world of private computers on the Internet.
[B]One of the characteristics of a polynomial is that a few numbers can nail it down precisely. If a simple polynomial is plotted out on a graph it forms a line.
[C]Online storage is a growing market, especially for backing up data, where reliability is a big concern.
[D]The challenge is how to minimize the number of copies of the same file that have to be distributed.
[E]It has been proved that for online data storage, Wuala is as good to give as it is to receive.
[F]Though the idea underlying it is simple, Wuala requires some nifty technology to make its distributed system work reliably.
[G]But copying every file a hundred times is hugely inefficient.
【R1】
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答案
F
解析
作者开篇就提出了网络存储的概念,并随后介绍了Caleido公司推出的被称为wuala的免费在线存储服务。在本段中,作者提到了wuala的开发者多米尼克·格罗里芒德和吕齐西·迈瑟使用了数学技巧来弥补参与电脑在上线下线方面的不可预知性。而[F]“虽然基本思想很简单,但是Wuala的实现还是需要极好的技术来保证其分布系统工作的可靠性”能够很好地承上启下,符合文章的逻辑关系,为正确答案。
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