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1.2 THE NEEDS OF A NEW COMPUTING
INFRASTRUCTURE
The challenges described in Section 1.1 call for a computing infrastructure
that could help conduct relevant computing and data processing with the
characteristics of enough computing capability, a minimized energy cost,
afast response to spike computing needs, and wide accessibility to the pub-
lic when needed.
1.2.1 Providing enough computing power
Although computing hardware technologies, including a central processing
unit (CPU), network, storage, RAM, and graphics processing unit (GPU),
have been advanced greatly in past decades, many computing require-
ments for addre ...