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Is a 40,000 core disaggregated rack really that different from a 4 core laptop? Google pioneered this way of thinking [1]. tl;dr the datacenter is a computer an
by presspot 12y ago
Is a 40,000 core disaggregated rack really that different from a 4 core laptop? Google pioneered this way of thinking [1]. tl;dr the datacenter is a computer and that computer will inevitably have an OS.
[1] http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rxin/db-papers/WarehouseScaleComputing.pdf http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rxin/db-papers/WarehouseScaleCom...
- zobzu 12y agoIndeed, ie the datacenter doesnt expose an OS but a set of APIs. There's enough differences between that and a full OS (which also provides its own API) to call bs IMO.