CMG 2007: Day 5 and 6
Things are winding down here at CMG and took most of Thursday to work on an assignment that is due this weekend. It’s been a fun week despite being sick, but I’m ready to get back home.
This talk was presented by Adrian Cockcroft and discussed the idea of using very low-power technology such as that found in cell phones to build a cluster of lots of servers in a very small space. Each individual device use less than a watt (milliwatts) so hundreds of these things can be packed into a very tight space.
The other advantage is that these device would use flash storage which has very good transfer speeds with no seek time and no rotational latency. The only disadvantage is the number of writes are finite so these devices would have to be used for most read-only applications.
In terms of cost, the average device can be purchased for less than $100 and a 6GB high-capacity high-speed SD card only costs about $75. For the cost of a typical full-sized server you can purchased hundreds of these things.
Consolidated Capacity and Performance Reporting
This is my session which is starting in about 30 minutes. Wish me luck!
Then it’s off to the airport….
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