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

[gordon dunlop]

The first link was broken here is the amended version

gordon

On 21 June 2010 23:19, gordon dunlop <zubenel at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> 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.
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>  http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7799
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> Google is up to something with possibly massive scaling with Arm chips, the
> plot thickens.
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> http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2362903,00.asp
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> A company is now selling an atom based cloud computing server.
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> http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3887471/SeaMicro-Launches-an-Atom-Powered-Cloud-Computing-Server.htm
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> 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?.
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> For Greybeards, Linux Cluster geeks & anyone that likes collecting
> historically important Computer Science papers here are the origins of COTS
> cluster computing.
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> Donald Becker *et al* of NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center in 1995.
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> 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>
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> Daniel Ridge *et al* of NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center in 1997.
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> 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>
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