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> you either spend money on software that deals with the hardware being unreliable and save money on software (pioneered by Google) or you spend money on hardwa

> you either spend money on software that deals with the hardware being unreliable and save money on software (pioneered by Google) or you spend money on hardware that promises to be highly reliable and save on software. Seems like the first "save money on software" shouldn't be there.

silvestrov 7y ago
sounds like it should be "spend money on software" as the software becomes much more complex when hardware being unreliable (and distributed rather than one big box)
- thekyle 7y ago
  Yeah, I think maybe they meant to say "save money on hardware" since they already said "spend money on software" earlier in the sentence.
wolf550e 7y ago
Should have been "... and save money on hardware (pioneered by Google) ..." but too late to edit now.
- greglindahl 7y ago
  Google pioneered something done before Google existed?
  - wolf550e 7y ago
    Change it to "made famous by Google". Do you have an example of a famous large system built out of many cheap computers (cheaper than normal servers) that predates Google?
    - dragonwriter 7y ago
      > Do you have an example of a famous large system built out of many cheap computers (cheaper than normal servers) that predates Google? That approach is, in scientific computing, at least as old as Beowulf (1994, four years before Google was founded), the prototypical system from which we get the term “beowulf cluster”.
jmg2 7y ago
Oh, as scary as it sounds, it's entirely possible to save current day unicorn runway money on metered processing duty cost software compared with the Oracle installations that you find at this level. Especially when you are pre processing using the accelerator cards that IBM doesn't include in your cup budget. I keep telling myself that my retirement plan is to write the missing "DB2 On Z is Not Any DB2 From Any Brochure You Read", handbook, plus the supplementary, "The Difference Between Larry Ellison And God Is God Runs z/vm syslpex." *0 Not being funny but do you honestly like the fact your hardware can't return correct values for your financial accounts? I am drooling over fogas on xeon mcms for selling metered coprocessor logic . Edit accidentally included runaway thought process...
- Mrjoto 7y ago
  You should try SAP

silvestrov 7y ago

sounds like it should be "spend money on software" as the software becomes much more complex when hardware being unreliable (and distributed rather than one big box)

thekyle 7y ago
Yeah, I think maybe they meant to say "save money on hardware" since they already said "spend money on software" earlier in the sentence.

wolf550e 7y ago

Should have been "... and save money on hardware (pioneered by Google) ..." but too late to edit now.

greglindahl 7y ago
Google pioneered something done before Google existed?
- wolf550e 7y ago
  Change it to "made famous by Google". Do you have an example of a famous large system built out of many cheap computers (cheaper than normal servers) that predates Google?
  - dragonwriter 7y ago
    > Do you have an example of a famous large system built out of many cheap computers (cheaper than normal servers) that predates Google? That approach is, in scientific computing, at least as old as Beowulf (1994, four years before Google was founded), the prototypical system from which we get the term “beowulf cluster”.

jmg2 7y ago

Oh, as scary as it sounds, it's entirely possible to save current day unicorn runway money on metered processing duty cost software compared with the Oracle installations that you find at this level. Especially when you are pre processing using the accelerator cards that IBM doesn't include in your cup budget. I keep telling myself that my retirement plan is to write the missing "DB2 On Z is Not Any DB2 From Any Brochure You Read", handbook, plus the supplementary, "The Difference Between Larry Ellison And God Is God Runs z/vm syslpex." *0 Not being funny but do you honestly like the fact your hardware can't return correct values for your financial accounts? I am drooling over fogas on xeon mcms for selling metered coprocessor logic . Edit accidentally included runaway thought process...

Mrjoto 7y ago
You should try SAP