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More boards, more rack space, more hardware management overhead, more and longer wiring with associated losses from resistance, bigger buildings... it's not rea
by gmueckl 7y ago
More boards, more rack space, more hardware management overhead, more and longer wiring with associated losses from resistance, bigger buildings... it's not really simple.
- MaxBarraclough 7y ago> More boards, more rack space Not if they can be made smaller and packed more densely. > more hardware management overhead I'm not sure this is a significant issue. > more and longer wiring I don't think this follows. They could be clustered. A cluster could be made to look a lot like a conventional big-iron server. We're talking about replacing a single large machine running, say, 16 VMs (each with an IP), with 16 small machines (each with an IP). Put an Ethernet switch at the last-mile and it's virtually the same, no? Different number of MAC addresses, sure.