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- granolajoe, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12When I was in college I was an assistant administrator at a Geodesy lab. We had a 16-Node cluster that was on at all times...not to mention 7 workstations and 2 network fileservers. I knew we were being wasteful, and we were only one out of the multitude of private and public labs on campus. I wish I'd known more about renewable energy sources back then...and got students to pressure the school to make some changes
- multitude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8This is really a big deal. I previously worked for a web advertising company. We had a cluster of hundreds of web and database servers and our power bills were in the range of $20,000/month. I hope that more people start paying attention to this in developing their applications.
It's not just about buying renewable energy, either. It's just as much about programming well. If your applications use less resources, the size and number of machines needed to run them shrinks exponentially. So far, though, there has been a mindset where application developers just toss more hardware at the problems that their sloppy programming creates. - fthead9, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Google has come out saying the biggest limitation to their future growth is the power consumption it requires to add additional server power. Developing cooler running servers would go a long way towards reducing those costs, which of course would reduce the overall environmental impact of hosting huge server farms.
- AlbinoRaven, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Virtualization with blade infrastructures with SAN storage allows for huge savings in both data center real estate and power consumption. Most of the implimentations I've been through we can take about 100-120 servers and put them on a single rack moutned with 36 blades/SAN and ESX. Each blade is populated with 8 -20 servers depending on the service requried.
Of course to do this you need money. Since the a Virtualised blade/san environment isn't on everyone's bank roll, Xen and VMware have some freely downloadable virtualization platform to have a server do more. Just keep an eye on the amount of memory you dump into each server or do an analysis of what is really needed. For file and print servers, you really don't need anything resource wise except disk so a nice, light SAMBA server works fairly well. Same goes for Mail. Well, anything I/O intensive it's a safe bet you can virtualize easily. DB's still are a bit tricky depending (as another pointed out) how well the application was developed. - scabbers, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Tracer Tong has a solution for this problem.
- Fergy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Deus Ex, the Bioshock of the past
- sainfoman, on 05/22/2008, -0/+0Do not worry about this problems go to http://www.vpsinabox.com
- dammm, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1This is one of the most informative posts I've read in a long time. It's also a really big issue, and I'm glad I took the time to click.
- dragonfire93, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0the problem shouldn't be reducing the heat or cooling the servers. that would just take up more energy. they should invent a device that uses the heat emmited from the servers and reuse that energy. or they could just find a way to make a more energy efficient server, kinda like hybrid cars!
http://internetnerds.invisionplus.net - MiserJ, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1ooo I wanna play Deus Ex now.
- HonoredMule, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Hogwash. The end of the world was 2 years ago. Everyone knows we're already all dead. The catastrophe was reported literally all around my apartment, and the obituaries took literally seconds to fabricate. I mean report.
- solinent, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1but we're all going to die in 4 years anyways
- barkingmoonbat, on 10/10/2007, -11/+2Buried for seeing articles about "sustainability" all the ***** time.
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