If the servers are running at a certain percentage of capacity, how would virtualization help? z or otherwise?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Alan Altmark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 12:43 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: Google out of capacity? > > On Friday, 05/05/2006 at 10:09 EST, Rich Smrcina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I think it's a safe bet that many 54-way z9's would be required, and > lots of > > fully loaded > > DS8000's, with the new 4G Ficon (insert tool man growl here). > > > > It would be a sweet coup if there were any interest. > > Picture it: The year is 2050. The public's demand for > information has continued to grow unabated, and there are 9+B > people on the planet > (source: US Census Bureau). The landfills are full of > broken servers and > the deserts are covered with solar collectors to fuel the > server farms. > These servers are located underground as there is no more > space above ground. > > The heat from all the servers has altered the climate and > raised the ocean levels. All of our homes are on stilts. > > Or, they could choose some form of virtualization and save us > all. (He Who Must Not Be Annoyed says that z is not the > answer for Google.) > > -- Chuckie > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access > instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the > message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
