[dundee] Low cost price/performance/power usage in clusters, cloud computing and data warehouses

[gordon dunlop]

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.

 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7799 <%20http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7799>

Google is up to something with possibly massive scaling with Arm chips, the
plot thickens.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2362903,00.asp

A company is now selling an atom based cloud computing server.

http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3887471/SeaMicro-Launches-an-Atom-Powered-Cloud-Computing-Server.htm

Whilst there are some problems to overcome using these low cost & 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?.

For Greybeards, Linux Cluster geeks & anyone that likes collecting
historically important Computer Science papers here are the origins of COTS
cluster computing.

Donald Becker *et al* of NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center in 1995.

http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/brahma/Resources/beowulf/papers/ICPP95/icpp95.ps<http://www.phy.duke.edu/%7Ergb/brahma/Resources/beowulf/papers/ICPP95/icpp95.ps>

Daniel Ridge *et al* of NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center in 1997.

http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/brahma/Resources/beowulf/papers/AA97/aa97.ps<http://www.phy.duke.edu/%7Ergb/brahma/Resources/beowulf/papers/AA97/aa97.ps>

gordon
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