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How much opportunity is there for this level of datacenter design to reduce power consumption? What are the trade-offs?
by hackuser 11y ago
How much opportunity is there for this level of datacenter design to reduce power consumption? What are the trade-offs?
- wmf 11y agoIn general a faster network allows more flexible scheduling, which should give more freedom to tune the scheduler for energy savings. Check out http://web.stanford.edu/~davidlo/resources/2015.thesis.pdf http://web.stanford.edu/~davidlo/resources/2015.thesis.pdf
- mik3y 11y agoThe real power savings come not from the switches themsleves, but from the application and scheduling architectures it enabled. Having full cross-sectional bandwidth between any pair of hosts means the bin packing problem is a lot easier. You don't need to (say) make sure your map reduce job is scheduled with one shard per rack because racks only have so much bandwidth. Any host on any rack will do. You can forget racks even exist. This makes overall utilization of clusters more efficient (tighter bin packing), and the corollary is you don't need as many clusters and machines. (Not that has ever stopped Google from building more :)