I'm with Coco
FAWN: A Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes
In the last 2-3 years I've been noticing that folks are finally designing their applications with a holistic viewpoint. This means we're actually paying attention to things like power, cooling, IO, and CPU usage when designing software applications. FAWN is a great example of this.
The video is below and the SOSP 09 FAWN paper is here.
Intel aims 30W Nehalem at 'microservers'
Clarkdale miniservers coming soon.
A Clarkdale system running 27.6W at idle and only 70W under load.
Google Bare Servers Video
This video is about 6 months old but the content is still quite up to date. Be sure to watch in HD mode.
The original article from CNet is here.
Building a Mini Cluster
Building a Mini Cluster -
I was doing some work and thought, "Wouldn't it be nice to have my own cluster?" I'm guessing not many people have those types of revelations, and probably fewer that decide they should go ahead and solve the problem. I wanted a cheap, small, easy to pack, light, quiet, low-power cluster that I could sit on my desk, and not even think about it. I did a little bit of research of what equipment to use and decided on the following:
(1) EEE PC-901 -- A good option for a management node due to it not only being small and portable, but also includes a screen to allow as a front-end to the cluster.
