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Anyone care to suggest some ideas on a few things: a) who would likely buy these (corporates, SMEs, startups)? b) it seems that they have increased the risk o
by sh1mmer 16y ago
Anyone care to suggest some ideas on a few things:
a) who would likely buy these (corporates, SMEs, startups)?
b) it seems that they have increased the risk of single point of failure (e.g. 1 PSU taking down 128 nodes) what's the mitigation strategy?
c) what would an architecture on a box like this look like? Should I just be thinking of it as a cheap set of VPS nodes?
d) People keep mentioning the kind of processing these chips are good for and not so good for. Can someone be explicit about good real world uses and bad ones?
- hga 16y agoI suspect a lot if not most of their customers will be buying more than one, so that mitigates the PSU problem.
- wmf 16y agoa) Web 2.0 sites. b) It has four redundant power supplies, as do all systems of this size. c) It's a Beowulf cluster. d) See the FAWN, Amdahl blade, Gordon, and CEMS papers.