Clearly you are taking this to an extreme.. my point was..given that *most* phone devices don't get too hot that they would need a large cooling system to keep it cool, and the fairly decent processing power of current devices, my point was, it would be possible, to some extent, barring a few variables, such as those you have brought up, to build a decent *little* server farm to handle some sort of load. I am not saying google should replace their search engine servers with smart phones by any means.
Yes.. a typical wifi-n would be screwed under the load of thousands of phones on the same wifi network, but then, we'd probably consider that we'd opt for a few wifi networks, on different physical network routers to help distribute that load a bit. I am sorry I didn't take this to the extreme you did and make it sound practical for a company like google to actually do this. What if we, for the sake of your argument, throw in wifi-ac? That's 1.3gbps wifi.. would that help things along? On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Lew <lewbl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lew wrote: > >> andjarnic wrote: >> >>> ... I could see where rather than buying a beefy multi-cpu 2+ rack >>> system, you could put a bunch of these in place as servers to handle a few >>> dozen or so requests and with almost no heat and enough power and memory to >>> handle the requests.. a farm of these could possibly be comparable to much >>> more expensive, heat dissipating hardware that runs multiple vms. At the >>> very least it would be pretty cool to see a table full of hundreds of >>> these, all via wifi, just servicing web requests ;) >>> >> >> How much heat is "almost no heat", really? >> >> What about the hardware and systems to distribute the load of hundreds >> or thousands of requests to servers that can only handle a dozen at a >> time? >> >> Are we *quite* sure that the heat generated would be "almost" none? My >> smart phone >> occasionally gets blazingly hot, as has every cell phone I've ever owned. >> >> You need to *measure* the heat, and power consumption, and cost of >> replacing batteries >> and other such costs, to be sure that you are getting the best server >> bang for the buck. >> >> I see lots of ways your assertions could be completely wrong. >> >> Oh, and the poor WiFi system will collapse under that bandwidth. > > Real server farms have hundreds, or even thousands of servers - full-size, > not phone-sized - in a single data center, connected by > ultra-ultra-high-bandwidth > pipes. I do not find the claim that smartphones could compete credible. > > -- > Lew > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
