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The photo under Upgrading the iPhone OCR Service Into An OCR Cluster. In the future, data centres are going to host racks of iPhones.
by yakubin 4y ago
The photo under Upgrading the iPhone OCR Service Into An OCR Cluster. In the future, data centres are going to host racks of iPhones.
- sankha93 4y agoIt is already here to be honest. I know BrowserStack and other mobile testing platforms (at Facebook and Amazon) do host real devices, both Android and iPhones, in server farms like this. Meta wrote a blog post about it: https://engineering.fb.com/2016/07/13/android/the-mobile-device-lab-at-the-prineville-data-center/ https://engineering.fb.com/2016/07/13/android/the-mobile-dev... At one of my previous workplaces, we discussed running the Z3 theorem prover on an iPhone cluster, because they run so much faster on A series processor than a desktop Intel machine.
- oefrha 4y agoModern app click farms already have walls of iPhones.
- formerly_proven 4y agoReminds me of imgix, who built their product on Apple libraries so ended up having racks of macs to run their service.
- leokennis 4y agoTo be fair...insane performance in a tiny cool package...iPhones would make great servers if you could order them without the screen/camera etc. :-)
- defrost 4y agoThere's your startup right there - washing line racks of discarded iPhones, near bleeding edge, busted screens, still functional o/wise. Low entry cost, recycling, eco-friendly, . . . a deck that writes itself.