Walter Bright wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Walter Bright wrote:
BCS wrote:
Even if you have network parallelism, CPU loads still costs money.
Many server farms are not space limited but power limited. They
can't get enough power out of the power company to run more servers.
(And take a guess at what there power bills cost!)
I've often wondered why the server farms aren't located in Alaska,
for free cooling, and the waste heat used to heat local businesses.
They can turn a cost (cooling) into a revenue source (charge local
businesses for heat).
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/27/am_iceland_data_farm/
Makes perfect sense.
As much as statically disallowing escaping references to locals :o).
Andrei
