DOI: 10.17587/prin.13.107-118

Synergy of Digital Universality of the Global Computer Environment

Yu. S. Zatuliveter, zvt@ipu.rssi.ru, E. A. Fishchenko, elena.fish@mail.ru, V. A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117997, Russian Federation

Corresponding author: Zatuliveter Yury S., Ph.D. of Engineering Sciences, Leading Researcher, Senior Research Officer, V. A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117997, Russian Federation, E-mail: zvt@ipu.rssi.ru

The global computer environment (GCE) as a whole is considered an object of research. The system-wide as­pects of implementing the digital transformation of the sociotechnosphere through the GCE are analyzed. Factors of the destructive influence of the fundamental system-technical laws of the spontaneous growth of the GCE on the functioning/development of the sociotechnosphere are presented. Special attention is paid to the study of the features of the apperance of a positive synergetic network effect, expressed by Metcalfs law, in the conditions of the initially open intra-system heterogeneity of the network resources of the existing GCE. It is established that with the increase in the size of large distributed systems implemented in the GCE, the factor of heterogeneity of network resources becomes a source of negative (system-destructive) network synergy, which devalues the positive synergy of Metcalfs law. Examples of ecosystems implemented in the GCE through cloud technologies are considered. It is shown that in the conditions of initially open heterogeneity of network resources, the further increase in the size of large distributed systems leads to an insurmountable increase in the complexity of the system-functional integra­tion of network resources and an uncontrolled decrease in the stability of the sociotechnosphere. The principles of conceptual reengineering the GCE are presented to eliminate the causes of systemic heterogeneity and seamless/ cybersecurity distribution of algorithmic universality, closed in intracomputer resources, to any arbitrarily large subset of GCE computers. Such reengineering will allow neutralizing the negative synergy and maximizing the positive synergy of the Metcalf effect in large distributed systems without restrictions on their size.

Keywords: computer environment, development trends, sociotechnosphere, digital transformation, positive network synergy, Metcalfs law, heterogeneity of network resources, negative synergy, cloud systems, conceptual reengineering, model of globally universal distributed computing, unified algorithmic space, seamless programming, cybersecurity

pp. 107–118

For citation:
Zatuliveter Yu. S., Fishchenko E. A. Synergy of Digital Universality of the Global Computer Environment, Programmnaya Ingeneria, 2022, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 107—118.