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Re:Ex-YouTube Man Builds Graphics Card for Entire Internet by adlpz on Thursday May 30, 2013 @10:58AM (#5792895)
I know I'm parallel-commenting here the guy himself, but seriously, I believe this is just what happens when you either have too much money, are too lazy, or both.

I am pretty sure they could have come up with a basic MoBo+GPU+CPU+RAM combo to buy from a large distributor, assemble them in series in no-time and get a vastly cheaper and more powerful farm.

Walking around buying mac minis a dozen a time to build a data center is just silly in my opinion, whatever the reasoning.

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Re:Ex-YouTube Man Builds Graphics Card for Entire Internet by zacman85 on Thursday May 30, 2013 @11:08AM (#5792959)
You are not wrong. And we were very well aware of this. However, we found the reality of the problem being solved is much more about network latency, routing, and caching than actual graphics processing throughput. Our pain points have been very different than what you are prescribing as a better course of action.
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