It comes down to price per cpu power and electricity. They are trying to save money from electricity and not necessarily the hardware. Two cpus with multiple cores would be better than a single cpu with multiple cores. They probably were using two cpus when multiple cores were not common a few yeas ago.
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Brian Aker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > On Apr 2, 2009, at 11:13 AM, Jim Starkey wrote: > >> * Servers have heat sink fans but no other cooling. > > > This is very smart of them. I've lost way too many machines to fans. Moving > parts are the weak link in these systems. > > As far as dual socket goes? I would have focused on single socket with many > cores. > > Cheers, > -Brian > > -- > _______________________________________________________ > Brian "Krow" Aker, brian at tangent.org > Seattle, Washington > http://krow.net/ <-- Me > http://tangent.org/ <-- Software > _______________________________________________________ > You can't grep a dead tree. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
