On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Emilio J. RodrÃguez-Posada < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > Naw, it's a great idea. Let's switch to building our own ARM-based > > servers (by the way, which have already been a flop commercially), > > using only unproven, low-volume available motherboards and having to > > buy and assemble all of the rest of the components. And then of > > course, we need to design our own cases... and since these have such a > > low performance, we'll need to have a lot more rack and datacenter > > space, of course which comes with a cost... and we'll have to figure > > out how to run our caching layers which require large amounts of > > memory... and our storage layers which require large amounts of disk > > space..... At that point we'll probably need to redesign those boards > > which are incapable of doing these things, so we'll need a team of > > hardware engineers, plus a deal with a manufacturing plant. > > > > So... I think with about a 100 million dollar per year research budget > > we can do this. Who's ponying up? ;) > > > > > Funny huh? > > If we use free software, I don't see why we can't move to open-source > hardware ASAP. > > > Well, I think Leslie just listed a few, but I'll recap: - low-availability - Requires in house assembly - Requires in house design capacity - Substantially more rack and datacenter space required - Insufficient for caching and storage layers - Cost of manufacturing. pb _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
