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Computer users interact with keyboards, mouses, displays and audio devices. These are wired to the computer's USB ports, HDMI or DVI ports and audio connectors. The goal of Supermatrix-project is to extend the wirings into a virtualized PC running in a local datacenter run by the local telecom operator. The personal computer will turn into a service hosted and administered by the IT professionals in the datacenter.

Why do we need this?

Why should a retired nurse have to know, what is a "firewall"? How can we expect her to make an informed decission when her computer asks for a permission to let myMalware.dll access Internet?

The profilation of usability testing since early 90's has on the whole helped to make individual applications more understandable for the average user. At the same time, the complexity of administering a computer environment has increased well beyond the grasp of the non-technical average user. They cannot be expected to master the complex relationships and dependencies between

• operating system and its' version and updates,
• programing platform runtime packages and their versions
• device drivers and their versions,
• network conncetions and their settings,
• malware protection software and its' settings,
• privacy protections

and the effects of these factors to

• system compatibility,
• system stability and
• system performance.

A virtualized personal computer in a datacenter can be administered by professionals. They will see to it that it is well protected and up-to-date.

Securing your life's documents

Because everone has an email, people write more letters and messages than any time in the history. Because of the profilation of digital photography, more pictures are taken than ever before. But as we all know, backup pratices in homes are not what they should be. Because hard disks and computers do crash, and CD-ROM and DVD materials do deteriorate, we are probably loosing information faster than ever before. How many videoclips of a child's first steps have been lost for the technical demons that lurk in computer systems? One can only quess.

Current datacenters have the knowhow to protect and secure the vital information that keeps businesses and the society running. Supermatrix will make this knowhow available for protecting documents of individual lives from catastrophic hardware or software failures.

Fiber optics is the key

The local telecom operators participating in Supermatrix project are within their districts committed to providing every house with a fibre optics connection to the nearest datacenter located in local telecom switch center. They are also committed to providing every household a multiple 100 MB/s connections -- which is quite enough for HDTV, and also for lightly compressed computer display and audio digital streams. This makes it possible to have a computer in a datacenter and its' peripherals in a user's home.

Project by a consortium

Supermatrix is being created by a consortium on over forty companies. The managing partner on the consortium is Finnet Association -- a union of local telecom operators in Finland.

Contacts

Risto Linturi is the chairman of consortium delegation

Tero Kauppinen is the CEO of Finnet Association, the managing partner of the project