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The Fortune 500 have an alternative. Build a nonprofit cooperative for their own data centers. Offer only S3, in memory S3, RDS, Lambda (with GPU/FPGA instances
by crb002 9y ago
The Fortune 500 have an alternative. Build a nonprofit cooperative for their own data centers. Offer only S3, in memory S3, RDS, Lambda (with GPU/FPGA instances too), and SQS equivalents as generic compute services. KISS. Beat AWS on price and simplicity.
- crb002 9y agoIBM/Lenovo can do it too. Custom fabric for affinity of Lambdas and in memory S3 on the same rack for insanely low latency. Killer is an MPI Broadcast primitive over a tree network and other bare bone equivalents of fundamental MPI operations. DOE alone will stop buying CRAY when they can use commodity low latency racks for HPC.
- debt 9y agoidk, it'll be curious when a $5.99 video rental online will actually mean a near instant delivery to your door. Amazon is trying to do instant deliveries. Then all these services won't be as valuable. My point is, might it be smarter to make a coop logistics company? Consumers may favor slower(but not too slow) delivery of a higher quality product for the same price as it's digital equivalent.