Comments on: Lessons And Time Drive Better Microserver Designs https://www.nextplatform.com/2015/03/12/lessons-and-time-drive-better-microserver-designs/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:45:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2015/03/12/lessons-and-time-drive-better-microserver-designs/#comment-164535 Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:45:33 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=370#comment-164535 In reply to zarfan potsborough.

Well, then it must be good cheese!

]]> By: zarfan potsborough https://www.nextplatform.com/2015/03/12/lessons-and-time-drive-better-microserver-designs/#comment-164534 Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:42:20 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=370#comment-164534 In reply to pasta514.

this aged like milk

]]> By: pasta514 https://www.nextplatform.com/2015/03/12/lessons-and-time-drive-better-microserver-designs/#comment-70 Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:01:00 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=370#comment-70 The PUE metric, used by datacenter operators to tout their efficiency is the biggest farce hoisted upon the gullible public. It allows google, facebook and amazon to claim high efficiency while completely ignoring the biggest power burner of all, the compute efficiency. Micro-servers or wimpy core look good on paper, but are horribly energy inefficient. The latest decade of computer science graduates are too stupid or lazy to properly program the traditional ‘big iron’ or beefy core machines to do the job that they can do well, so instead of learning from a half century of experience and optimization decided to start over, and finally admitted they were wrong. Meanwhile, as much as I bristle at their monopolistic practices it seems that Intel has kept the faith and delivered the solution that the market needs with the Xeon Phi. It’s binary compatible with 90% of the installed base and will obliterate ARM core based microserver architecture and processor manufacturers. Take a lesson from Smoothstone/Calxeda, cut your losses and run. Intel is back.

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