Just for the record, the i5 in my computer is running at 5.2Ghz on 2 Cores, and 1.3Ghz on 2 cores. This is great for things that only use 2 threads the OS runs on a 1.3ghz CPU, background tasks run on a 1.3, and my video editing software runs on the 2 5.2ghz cores.
I realize this isn't what Google is doing, but you can in fact set up i5 and i7s to run this way and 4.8 is a pretty common overclock for these CPUs. I think more and more with dynamic clocking and Cheap CPUs we will see computers cycles billed more often as CPU hours at X clock speed for Manage hosting where the cost at this point is in HVAC and power, more than computational units. In a server environment typically the cost of the hard drive is less than the power needed to spin it and cool it. Especially in a world of 1.5 TB drives at $70. (I just bought 300gig drives for $15 each quantity 8) From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nickolas Daskalou Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 10:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [google-appengine] Where did Google buy 4.8GHz CPUs? They're not 4.8GHz. It's more like 2 x 2.4GHz which can only be utilised (currently) by using the Java runtime of GAE, as stated by Greg Darke here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/z-A6PcplG7M/O-Ke_SVMXoMJ Nick On 16 May 2011 02:29, pdknsk <[email protected]> wrote: Or is this just against some sort of Pentium = 100 reference value? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:google-appengine%[email protected]> . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
