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Technology Review: The problem with mobile phones, says Allan Knies,
associate director of Intel Research at Berkeley, is that everyone
wants them to perform like a regular computer, despite their relatively
paltry hardware. Byung-Gon Chun,
a research scientist at Intel Research Berkeley, thinks that he might
have the solution to that problem: create a supercharged clone of your
smart phone that lives in “the cloud” and let it do all the
computational heavy lifting that your phone is too wimpy to handle.

CloneCloud, invented by Chun and his colleague Petros Maniatis,
uses a smart phone’s high-speed connection to the Internet to
communicate with a copy of itself that lives in a cloud-computing
environment on remote servers. The prototype runs on Google’s Android
mobile operating system and seamlessly offloads processor-intensive
tasks to its cloud-based double. Details of the project will be
revealed at the HotOS XII conference in Switzerland later this month. Read more…