This is an article on how the atom processors could achieve a reduction in the price per performance and lower power consumption costs in cluster computing.<br>


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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="%20http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7799"> http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7799</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Google is up to something with possibly massive scaling with Arm chips, the plot thickens.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2362903,00.asp">http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2362903,00.asp</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">A company is now selling an atom based cloud computing server.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3887471/SeaMicro-Launches-an-Atom-Powered-Cloud-Computing-Server.htm">http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3887471/SeaMicro-Launches-an-Atom-Powered-Cloud-Computing-Server.htm</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Whilst there are some problems to overcome using these low cost &amp; low power chips, with the right modifications it can been seen they have apparent economic advantages. Will we have cluster computing in the next few years using the Intel Atom or Arm architectures? Is history repeating itself using COTS (Commodity Off The Shelf) hardware?.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">For Greybeards, Linux Cluster geeks &amp; anyone that likes collecting historically important Computer Science papers here are the origins of COTS cluster computing.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Donald Becker <i>et al</i> of NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center in 1995.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.phy.duke.edu/%7Ergb/brahma/Resources/beowulf/papers/ICPP95/icpp95.ps">http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/brahma/Resources/beowulf/papers/ICPP95/icpp95.ps</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Daniel Ridge <i>et al</i> of NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center in 1997.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.phy.duke.edu/%7Ergb/brahma/Resources/beowulf/papers/AA97/aa97.ps">http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/brahma/Resources/beowulf/papers/AA97/aa97.ps</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">gordon<br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p>