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NZ school goes open source - cuts server requirements by a factor of almost 50
- ryanwaggoner 17y agoCut the uber-linkbait title. I'm no MS fan, but I was immediately skeptical of such a claim. And here's the relevant info: In 2010, Albany SHS will move into new purpose-built premises, which include a dedicated server room. Brennan noted that the architects designed the space based on standard New Zealand school requirements, including four racks each capable of holding 48 servers for its main systems. The main infrastructure only requires four servers, suggesting an almost 50-fold saving on hardware requirements. Actually, it suggests absolutely nothing of the kind. The fact that some architect somewhere designed a room big enough to hold 192 servers hardly means that you've saved 50-fold because you're only using 4. The office I rented is big enough for six people to work in, so I'm apparently doing the work of six people!
- smiler 17y agoNZ school standards are crazy. It's a 230 pupil high school and they require - we'll assume when they say each rack can contain 48 servers they mean 48U, so that's 192U of space. I'm struggling to see how a 230 pupil school needs that much rack space...