On Sat, 26 Jun 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > We're talking a whole new scale here. 512 atom processors in a 10u > formfactor, consuming 2kw, for $200 each. Looking quickly at dell, it's not > difficult to get down to $200 per core, 4 cores in 1U. But you're going to > fit at most 40 cores into 10u, and it will still consume 2kw of power at > that scale.
The big vendors are all after the "We buy 10,000 servers each month" crowd so they are making machines orientated towards them. The good news for the rest of us is that they have some models in this areas that other people can buy: Have a look at the Dell Poweredge C: http://www.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/servers/poweredge-c-series/cp.aspx?refid=poweredge-c-series&s=biz&cs=555 and HP ProLiant SL6000 servers ( especially the HP ProLiant SL2x170 ): http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF04a/15351-15351-3896136-3896139-3955796.html and maybe some other vendors like Rackable. Asking for "Cloud models" seems to be best. You get all the power efficiency features and they remove some of the cruft like 2nd power supplies. -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
