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> physicalization takes a hardware-based approach to dividing those resources into independent, TCO-optimized, single socket compute nodes Anyone have any conc
by timf 18y ago
> physicalization takes a hardware-based approach to dividing those resources into independent, TCO-optimized, single socket compute nodes
Anyone have any concrete idea about what they are talking about? Specialized VLAN + management platform?
Vague press release... (what's new)
- wmf 18y agoThey mean why bother splitting a large server into a bunch of small virtual servers when it is cheaper to simply buy a bunch of small servers? I don't think they provide any management tools other than the usual IPMI stuff, so what you do with all those servers is up to you. More details: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/01/15/TheCaseForLowCostLowPowerServers.aspx http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/01/15/TheCaseForLowCos...
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- Xichekolas 18y ago> why bother splitting a large server into a bunch of small virtual servers when it is cheaper to simply buy a bunch of small servers One word: flexibility. VMs can grow up to the size of the dedicated server they are on. These tiny hardware platforms cannot. They must resort to parallelism much earlier than more beefy servers would. (Not that I was accusing you of supporting the claim... merely pointing out that I think their idea is flawed... even if the hardware is neato!) Given a sufficiently parallelizable(is that a word?!) workload, these things could be total win though.
- timf 18y agoThanks, I felt with all the grand talk that maybe there was more going on...