On Maw, 2003-07-29 at 20:35, Jim Sibley wrote: > One of the driving factors of either the multiple > virtual machines or the multiple user model is that, > in most applications, most of the time, a single user > is idle and your 300Ghz of power is mostly idle.
But in the PC world cpu power is cheap. People have been trading wasted CPU in vast quanities for convenience. The desktop is a mindboggling waste of CPU power (idle time not pretty pictures) A lot of server stuff is. Its just that PC's are so cheap its easier to use several for a job _IFF_ you can solve the management problem. My firewall is 99.5% idle but its not economically interesting to solve that problem. > And those 300 small machines would probably only > access 9 TB of data cut up into 30GB pieces. I didnt think you could buy disks that small any more 8) Try 80-240Gb assuming random IDE disks.
