Gustav Brock
Gustav at cactus.dk
Tue Jun 15 10:38:19 CDT 2010
Hi Jim Certainly interesting for the big guys though with one potential limitation: 32-bit only. However, for a web site, who cares if you run sixteen 32-bit or four 64-bit virtual servers in parallel? For normal use it could be cool with a 8 or 16 x Atom CPU board ... /gustav >>> accessd at shaw.ca 15-06-2010 16:55 >>> Servers can be very expensive as they require huge boxes, many cooling fans, a power supply that requires the biggest UPS, heatsink and more fans. The CPUs have fans and heatsinks as big as a head. It requires two people just to roll them into place. Then we throw in redundancy... They can be a really pain in the back; literally... I know. Most of the pain, I understand is in the price (far beyond my pay grade) and subsequently the maintenance and power consumption. They suck power big-time. It is like turning on an electric stove or 20 hot plates and never turning them off... no wonder they need their own power circuits. But there isn't much that can be done about it. If you have a lot of data and need performance you just pay... well until now: http://venturebeat.com/2010/06/13/seamicro-drops-an-atom-bomb-on-the-server-industry/ Jim