Comments on: The Dawn of the Super Server http://gigaom.com/2011/03/05/the-dawn-of-the-super-server/ Sun, 19 May 2013 03:00:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Interesting Reading #700 – Cheap Ultrafast Broadband, Facebook replacing web, Understanding Anonymous, Secret space plane and much more! – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks http://gigaom.com/2011/03/05/the-dawn-of-the-super-server/#comment-606034 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 02:37:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=286791#comment-606034 [...] The Dawn of the Super Server – “We’re in the midst of a computing implosion: a re-centralization of resources driven by virtualization, many-core CPUs, GPU computing, flash memory, and high-speed networking. Some have predicted, only half-jokingly, that we will be able to buy a mainframe in a pizza box server that fits in a small fraction of a data center rack. That possibility — and in my opinion, inevitability — means we have a lot to watch over the next few years: what I like to call the coming of the Super Server….” [...]

]]> By: Marc Villemade http://gigaom.com/2011/03/05/the-dawn-of-the-super-server/#comment-605989 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:38:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=286791#comment-605989 Hey Gary,
Thanks for your answer.

Where did you see storage going from smaller servers to bigger with distributed storage ? I mean, imho, legacy storage is basically large, dense arrays which i would call super servers.

If you’re talking about the application servers who mount those network storage arrays through FC or iSCSI, and which typically had a very small local storage, then fine. But we’re not comparing apples and apples that way.

It is true that nodes for distributed storage usually contain more local storage than app servers, but usually way less than large storage arrays.

I might not understand what your point is, but anyway the point is that i believe that distributed storage over independent commoditized nodes probably helps limiting datacenter operations and single server energy utilization, if not limiting the number of servers in a DC.

It’s a very interesting conversation. Thanks for the article again !

-marc

]]> By: kevinclosson http://gigaom.com/2011/03/05/the-dawn-of-the-super-server/#comment-605976 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:18:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=286791#comment-605976 Hi Gary,

Very good post. I agree with your vision. I hope to catch up with you next time I’m in your neck of the woods. We have a lot to catch up on.

]]> By: The Dawn of the Super Server | Pixelbean http://gigaom.com/2011/03/05/the-dawn-of-the-super-server/#comment-605920 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:44:15 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=286791#comment-605920 [...] Source:http://gigaom.com/cloud/the-dawn-of-the-super-server/ This entry was posted in Technology and tagged center rack, centralization, dawn, flash memory, fraction, high speed, inevitability, mainframe, midst, pizza box, speed networking. Bookmark the permalink. ← Global Android Activations Mapped and Animated [...]

]]> By: Unwired http://gigaom.com/2011/03/05/the-dawn-of-the-super-server/#comment-605757 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:01:00 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=286791#comment-605757 If one day ARM and other mobile CPU can run servers, is intel in threat?

]]> By: callsociety1 http://gigaom.com/2011/03/05/the-dawn-of-the-super-server/#comment-605720 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:41:35 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=286791#comment-605720 Creepy development. When is enough, ENOUGH??? http://www.telusconnect.net/

]]> By: Ryan Anguiano http://gigaom.com/2011/03/05/the-dawn-of-the-super-server/#comment-605500 Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:38:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=286791#comment-605500 You can see an explanation of Hadoop and HDFS here:

http://hackedexistence.com/project-hadoop.html

There is also an example and sample code using Hadoop in the Netflix Prize Contest

]]> By: Paul Miller http://gigaom.com/2011/03/05/the-dawn-of-the-super-server/#comment-605419 Sun, 06 Mar 2011 19:29:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=286791#comment-605419 Hi Gary

for ‘Crazy Idea 1,’ what would the bandwidth – up and down – to your LEO-based server farm look like… and could the storage handle the vibration from lift-off, or the radiation from the sun?

‘Crazy idea 2′ – not so crazy, and the same thinking that already drives locating data centers next to geothermal (Iceland), hydro-electric (some US states), etc. You still need the bandwidth to get data in and out of those server farms, of course… and geothermal has a nasty tendency to also mean geologically unstable…

]]> By: The Dawn of the Super Server - Trackback from DailyKix.com http://gigaom.com/2011/03/05/the-dawn-of-the-super-server/#comment-605345 Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:04:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=286791#comment-605345 The Dawn of the Super Server – Trackback from DailyKix.com…

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]]> By: Gary Ambrosino http://gigaom.com/2011/03/05/the-dawn-of-the-super-server/#comment-605333 Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:16:49 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=286791#comment-605333 I agree on the power comment (below). In U.S. industry (50% of electric power consumption in the U.S.) over half of the power us used by large electric motors. This has been the mix historically, and motor manufacturers have done a lousy job of improving on power consumption save for some automatic tuning features. Data server farms are beginning to catch up to this and that’s the rub. The risk is since most of these installations are in concentrated places (gigantic campuses or warehouses) they unbalance the electric grid and create problems even for any new smart-grid strategy. Not unreasonable to think that some “crazy” ideas will actually have to be brought into play:

Crazy idea 1= put server farms in low earth orbit for cooling and solar power
Crazy idea 2 = colocate a nuclear power plant with a server installation

Maybe not so crazy ? What do you think.

-g

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