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Saturday 20 December 2008, 2:58 AM
Wheeling on the mobile data centre
A data centre on wheels might look strange, but it's an illustration of some fundamental changes in the way our systems are made.
"A single PC processor is now capable of driving systems that can outperform blade servers in a data centre," said a reviewer on another site. "You can expect the rules to be rewritten as far as computing expectations."
Did he expect something like this though?
Google has put datacentres in shipping containers and Microsoft has put them in trucks.
Rackable Systems' Mobirack uses multicore chips to produce a datacentre more at the shopping trolley end of the scale, but it can have 128 cores, and up to 40TB of data.
I want to see Dialogue Box put a system like this through its paces. Hof fast it processes, obviously. But also how fast can a couple of guys accelerate it? What sort of speed does it reach? And how well does it corner?
"A single PC processor is now capable of driving systems that can outperform blade servers in a data centre," said a reviewer on another site. "You can expect the rules to be rewritten as far as computing expectations."
Did he expect something like this though?
Google has put datacentres in shipping containers and Microsoft has put them in trucks.
Rackable Systems' Mobirack uses multicore chips to produce a datacentre more at the shopping trolley end of the scale, but it can have 128 cores, and up to 40TB of data.
I want to see Dialogue Box put a system like this through its paces. Hof fast it processes, obviously. But also how fast can a couple of guys accelerate it? What sort of speed does it reach? And how well does it corner?
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