Re: Interesting but .....
From reading this, how is it allowing servers to be less per efficient?
The main thing it does is allow servers to be more densely packed. There is a limit to the amount of computations we can currently attain per unit of energy, so a limit to the amount of "work" which can be performed in a rack within a certain power envelope. To go beyond that, we have to increase the power envelope, which is what this did. It doesn't let servers be less efficient, it allows now servers to be crammed into the same rack space. As the article mentions, datacentres are basically real estate, so this is like building a block of flats instead of a bungalow.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
