Lew wrote: > andjarnic wrote: > >> ... I could see where rather than buying a beefy multi-cpu 2+ rack >> system, you could put a bunch of these in place as servers to handle a few >> dozen or so requests and with almost no heat and enough power and memory to >> handle the requests.. a farm of these could possibly be comparable to much >> more expensive, heat dissipating hardware that runs multiple vms. At the >> very least it would be pretty cool to see a table full of hundreds of >> these, all via wifi, just servicing web requests ;) >> > > How much heat is "almost no heat", really? > > What about the hardware and systems to distribute the load of hundreds > or thousands of requests to servers that can only handle a dozen at a time? > > Are we *quite* sure that the heat generated would be "almost" none? My > smart phone > occasionally gets blazingly hot, as has every cell phone I've ever owned. > > You need to *measure* the heat, and power consumption, and cost of > replacing batteries > and other such costs, to be sure that you are getting the best server bang > for the buck. > > I see lots of ways your assertions could be completely wrong. > > Oh, and the poor WiFi system will collapse under that bandwidth.
Real server farms have hundreds, or even thousands of servers - full-size, not phone-sized - in a single data center, connected by ultra-ultra-high-bandwidth pipes. I do not find the claim that smartphones could compete credible. -- Lew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
