On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 02:50:54PM -0400, Matt Wagner wrote: > I had lunch yesterday with some people who happened to be pretty > familiar with this, and what's dubbed the "hyperscale" paradigm. The > idea is that, instead of some dense servers and running VMs on them, > you go for a massive number of very low-power servers. These Atoms > seem to use something in the ballpark of 10W, but there's also a lot > of interest in ARM chips where you can get much lower usage. And > apparently, 45 nodes in 4.3U is nothing. Look at HP's Redstone[2] > for example, which fit 288 ARM chips into a 4U chassis.
FYI HP Moonshot will support other chip vendors by end of 13, as they promise (AMD, ARM...) > I think it's too soon to be able to do a lot, but I think this is > something worth thinking about. Can we effectively bring what we do > in the cloud to "hyperscale" physical nodes? There is already Foreman which handles bare-metal efficiently. Maybe it worths to integrate some more effort into the Foreman. -- Later, Lukas "lzap" Zapletal irc: lzap #theforeman
