Re:Intel's Ivy Bridge Architecture Exposed
by acdha on Monday September 19, 2011 @08:32AM
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Forget operating costs, one major biological research center I knew of hit (IIRC) 20% of their maximum server space before the power company said they'd need to run a new high-voltage line at $$$ and years of delays even if the neighbors didn't kill it. I believe they were able to jump on the lower-power hardware as that market developed but it certainly got a lot of attention in the community.
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Wow. I suppose they didn't want to move the bulk of their servers because of their sunk costs in space, security, etc. ... but, yeah, I can see that getting a lot of attention.
And you implicitly bring up a point I've read about, that power and cooling are now the limiting factors in server spaces. Moore's Law plus the even faster doubling of disk platter capacity (as of late I've read it's doubling every year or so) has allowed us to pack rather a lot in rather small spaces.