Facebook to Spend Nearly Half a Billion Dollars on New Data Center. Smooth-Stone Aims to Make Low-Power Chip. About the Apache HTTP Server Project - The Apache HTTP Server Pr. The Apache HTTP Server Project is a collaborative software development effort aimed at creating a robust, commercial-grade, featureful, and freely-available source code implementation of an HTTP (Web) server. The project is jointly managed by a group of volunteers located around the world, using the Internet and the Web to communicate, plan, and develop the server and its related documentation. This project is part of the Apache Software Foundation. In addition, hundreds of users have contributed ideas, code, and documentation to the project. This file is intended to briefly describe the history of the Apache HTTP Server and recognize the many contributors. In February of 1995, the most popular server software on the Web was the public domain HTTP daemon developed by Rob McCool at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Brian BehlendorfRoy T. With additional contributions from Eric HagbergFrank PetersNicolas Pioch. Apache HTTP Server. The Apache HTTP Server, colloquially called Apache (/əˈpætʃiː/ ə-PA-chee), is the world's most used web server software. Originally based on the NCSA HTTPd server, development of Apache began in early 1995 after work on the NCSA code stalled. Apache played a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web,[5] quickly overtaking NCSA HTTPd as the dominant HTTP server, and has remained most popular since April 1996. In 2009, it became the first web server software to serve more than 100 million websites.[6] Apache is developed and maintained by an open community of developers under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation.
As of July 2016[update], Apache was estimated to serve 46.41% of all active websites and 43.18% of the top million websites.[10] Name[edit] The name literally came out of the blue. Feature overview[edit] Apache supports a variety of features, many implemented as compiled modules which extend the core functionality. HTTP server and proxy features[edit] Main Page. Main Page. The Economics of Servers Could Soon Change: Tech News « Marvell said today that it has built a chip designed for servers that uses the same architecture as chips inside cell phones.
The chip’s four 1.6 GHz processors aren’t notable for their performance compared to today’s server chips, which use the x86 architecture used by Intel and AMD. However, the power savings will likely be significant compared with an x86-based chip. Such power savings lowers the overall compute cost because it lowers the cost of running both servers and data centers (chips that don’t get as hot don’t require as much air to cool).
We covered this phenomenon in a story on Smooth-Stone, which, like Marvell is using the ARM instruction set for server chips, but also with Sea Micro, which is using low-powered x86 Atom chips from Intel to deliver similar savings. Intel and AMD share an uneasy duopoly when it comes to x86 chips (yes there’s Via, but Via’s chips haven’t gained ground in servers), which means that the folks who build servers have two choices. YouTube - Dell "Fortuna" Server. Apple Considering $8 Billion Acquisition of ARM [RUMOR] ARM Holdings, the company that creates the processors for most of the world's mobile phones — including the iPhone and iPad — is now the center of major acquisition rumors.
The potential buyer: none other than Apple. According to the London Evening Standard, there is huge chatter in London's financial scene that ARM Holdings could be acquired by the technology giant for around $8 billion, or 5.2 billion pounds. Let's be very clear: This is very much in the rumors and speculation stage. However, shares of ARM Holdings shot up by over 8% during trading today, mostly due to the rumors. The deal is completely doable on Apple's end — it has over $40 billion in cash reserves. An acquisition would do two things for Apple. If Apple does indeed acquire ARM, it would completely change the game and potentially force mobile phone manufacturers to use weaker-performing processors in their phones.
For now, file this one under the "plausible rumor" category. VIA Nano™ Processor. VIA Nano® E-Series processors are based on superscalar, speculative out-of-order 64-bit architecture providing a highly compatible, high-performance, and low-power consumption solution for embedded computing. With an open platform, VIA Nano® E-Series processors allow developers to put in as many features as possible with a fast time-to-market. Utilizing 65nm process technology, VIA Nano® E-Series processors are an ideal blend of powerful performance and energy efficiency. The processors augment that with aggressive power and thermal management features within a compact 21mm x 21mm NanoBGA2 package for an idle power as low as 100mW (0.1 W). In addition to complying with RoHS and WEEE directives, VIA Nano® E-Series was the first processor platform to employ halogen-free as well as lead-free packaging technology, and be named “Total Green solution”. Lenovo delays ARM-based netbook? Top 10 endpoint backup mistakes Lenovo may have delayed its eagerly anticipated ARM-based netbook, the Skylight, it has been claimed.
Originally scheduled to appear on US shop shelves this month, the mini notebook will not now debut until July, transatlantic title Laptop Magazine has alleged, citing moles from within Lenovo. Lenovo's Skylight: delayed? They said the company is taking a "little extra time... to get [the Skylight] right". The Lenovo website still says the machine will arrive in "Spring 2010". Unfortunately, Lenovo has yet to say when - or if, even - the Skylight will be released in the UK, but a three-month slip in the company's launch market means the ARM-book's appearance over here is now even further off.
Skylight sports a netbook-style 10.1in display but with a 1280 x 720 resolution. Very thin for easy portability Skylight weighs in at 900g and measures a skinny 253 x 201 x 17mm. Top 10 endpoint backup mistakes. The Case For Low-Cost, Low-Power Servers. The Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research was held last week at Asilomar California. It’s a biennial systems conference. At the last CIDR, two years ago, I wrote up Architecture for Modular Data Centers where I argued that containerized data centers are an excellent way to increase the pace of innovation in data center power and mechanical systems and are also a good way to grow data centers more cost effectively with a smaller increment of growth. Containers have both supporters and detractors and its probably fair to say that the jury is still out.
I’m not stuck on containers as the only solution but any approach that supports smooth, incremental data center expansion is interesting to me. There are some high scale modular deployments are in the works (First Containerized Data Center Announcement) so, as an industry, we’re starting to get some operational experience with the containerized approach. · RPS/dollar:3.7x · RPS/Joule: 3.9x · RPS/Rack: 9.4x James Hamilton. Reed's Ruminations: A Blog by Dan Reed. Servers With Cellphone Chips? Yep, Here They Come - Bits Blog - If a server runs on a smartphone chip is it still a server? The era of such a deeply philosophical data center question is upon us. A pair of stealthy start-ups have placed smartphone chips at the center of their plans to create a new breed of low-power servers. They’re hoping that this radical take on data center hardware will attract the likes of Google, Facebook and Microsoft, which all battle energy costs on a huge scale.
SeaMicro, based in Santa Clara, Calif., has put together a server based on Intel‘s Atom chip, which currently slots into things like netbooks and other mobile computing devices. Intel expects Atom to drive its cell phone strategy in the coming years as well. Exact details on the SeaMicro product have been tough to come by, since the company remains inside the cone of silence, but people familiar with SeaMicro’s hardware say it will pack about 80 Atom chips in a very small chassis. Today’s phone and mobile device chips have quite a bit of horsepower. SeaMicro: More Than Just Low-Power Servers « Data Center Knowled. Stealthy startup SeaMicro isn’t saying much about its technology, which aims to “revolutionize the data center landscape” by slashing the power used in IT operations.
The company recently got a $9.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to further its development of technology to make data centers more energy efficient. The initial buzz around SeaMicro has focused on its plans to build powerful multi-core servers using Intel’s low-power Atom chips, whose energy efficiency has made them the processor of choice for many mobile phones and laptops. The DOE grant mentions its plans to use hundreds of low-power processors in a design that could “save 75% of the computing energy over conventional servers.” “The integrated hardware and software design project ensures that the energy consumed within the server is efficiently used regardless of whether the CPUs are hard at work or in ‘sleep’ mode,” the DOE notes in its description of the project.