Facebook OCP crowd to ogle MICROSOFT'S server-room SECRETS Microsoft has released a second clutch of secret blueprints from its server bunkers to Facebook’s Open Compute Project. The giant on Thursday published specs for servers and open-sourced code for the in-house tools its techies use to set up and run Azure, Office 365, Bing and Xbox Live. The idea is for anyone to take …
No lover of Microsoft, but this cost them money and they have put it out there, has the Leopard changed it's spots? not sure, but this is still a thing of value, altruistic I very much doubt it, but MS no longer can dictate the market, the bully may be finding, it is surrounded by the snotty nosed brats that have grown up and have also been going to the gym :-)
"No lover of Microsoft, but this cost them money..."
What? I can find 10 dudes right now that can fully spec off a server in under 20 seconds. Give them some something to smoke, they'll have it all drawn up on a rolling paper in a hour, with software to build on it (all GNU). This doesn't cost Microsoft money, this saves them money. After the ideas of Ballmer (or lack of imagination of Ballmer), they have to be more careful where they invest money for startups...even their own!
"What? I can find 10 dudes right now that can fully spec off a server in under 20 seconds."
Ok so off you go then. If your team is bloody amazing, I'm sure they would love your input. So spec out thermals for each chip, every single chip required, board reference design, the interconnects, the materials, the airflow, the microcode,. Clearly you can do a better job than Google's and MS's engineers.
I'm serious, if you can design a bare metal system and I MEAN BARE metal in 10 minutes, then go ahead.
Oh you mean cobble together a motherboard, processor, power suply and a few other bits and bobs? Whoopee-do.
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