Optimising servers

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Roedy Green - 21 Nov 2005 19:53 GMT

I was talking to my ISP. He mentioned that Google does optimisation of
their servers, calculating whether to use faster cpus trading that off
against increased electricity consumption vs increased throughput.
Wouldn't it be nice to have so many servers that you had to consider
AC power?

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Monique Y. Mudama - 21 Nov 2005 22:22 GMT

> I was talking to my ISP. He mentioned that Google does optimisation
> of their servers, calculating whether to use faster cpus trading
> that off against increased electricity consumption vs increased
> throughput. Wouldn't it be nice to have so many servers that you
> had to consider AC power?

Dunno about you, but I think about it every time I open my bills! We*
have six computers running more or less continuously, plus several
more "hobby machines" that may or may not be running. It adds up.

* My husband and I. Each a PC, each a laptop, and each a server.

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Benji - 21 Nov 2005 22:41 GMT

> I was talking to my ISP. He mentioned that Google does optimisation of
> ...

I was talking to my ISP, and he told me that he was feeling a tad bit
anthropomorphic today.

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and much refactoring wearies the body.

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