Sujet : Re: architectural goals, Byte Addressability And Beyond
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 04. Jun 2024, 02:30:49
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On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 07:47:49 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig wrote:
One of the main selling points [of zSeries] is the hardware
reliability ...
Quite an expensive way to get reliability. How does an outfit like Google
achieve essentially 0% downtime? By running a swarm of half a million
commodity servers, that’s how. Every part has been built to the lowest
cost, except the power supply. And they discovered they can run their data
centres a little hot, to save on cooling costs, at the expense of a
slightly higher failure rate. Because if a few thousand servers are down
at any particular time, none of their users even notices.
Re: architectural goals, Byte Addressability And Beyond
Re: architectural goals, Byte Addressability And Beyond