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Open Compute Project: Can Facebook Help Save The World?
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Hardware generally doesn’t interest me too much, so when I heard about the Open Compute project I didn’t give it too much attention. Casually reading up on the subject a little more left me even less interested. Why should Facebook have to design their own hardware, I wondered? Wouldn’t hardware vendors be clambering over each other to supply Facebook with gobs and gobs of servers for their data centers?
Amir Michael, Facebook’s hardware lead, discussed the Open Compute project in a keynote presentation at LinuxCon. He laid out the root problem: hardware manufacturers, in an effort to provide differentiation, were actually creating more problems than they were solving. The on-system instrumentation that OEMs provide did for Facebook but create additional complexity, and ultimately wasted space and produced unnecessary heating concerns.
source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/TEtR-5rJ_mw/
2012-08-31 12:22:32
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