300 10Gbps network ports, 1Gpbs to each desktop, and over 300TB of disk storage… Whoa…<\/p>\n
CNet has done a short piece<\/a> on the Lucasfilm <\/a>datacenter. I found two things very interesting about this operation. First, they have a very short time horizon on technology with some of it consider ‘legacy’ within 6 – 7 months<\/i>. The second is that they put a high value on performance per watt of electricty.<\/p>\n As our machines become more powerful it takes more power to operate them. That power turns to heat which then takes even more power to remove lest the machine pull a China Syndrome<\/a>. AMD has long been a leader in creating power-efficient CPUs but Intel has recently gotten some religion about it and now isn’t far behind.<\/p>\n I’m a big fan of AMD (as is LucasFilms it turns out with 198 dual-core, dual-processor Opteron<\/a> machines) for this reason as well as they are generally cheaper per CPU cycle than Intel.<\/p>\n Inside the Lucasfilm data center | CNET News.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 300 10Gbps network ports, 1Gpbs to each desktop, and over 300TB of disk storage… Whoa… CNet has done a short piece on the Lucasfilm datacenter. I found two things very interesting about this operation. First, they have a very short time horizon on technology with some of it consider ‘legacy’ within 6 – 7 months. … Continue reading I have petabyte envy…<\/span>