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More about Google's commodity servers

• lallysingh 18y ago
  Anyone know how do these compare to normal blades?
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• mtw 18y ago
  Does someone know what they are referring to about "commodity x86 servers"? Does this mean Core2 or Opterons? as opposed to Dunnington, Tigertons, or Itaniums?
  • wmf 18y ago
    The term "commodity x86" is somewhat redundant, since almost all x86 machines are commodity (in the sense that a server from Dell and an equivalent server from, say, HP are effectively interchangeable). It is rumored that Google chooses processors based on performance/TCO, which would exclude the crazy expensive ones.