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Facebook’s running out of servers to handle its 500+ million users , so it has decided to build a new data center in North Carolina that will cost a whopping $450 million to complete. The announcement was made by North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue, who said that the facility will take 18 months to complete and will employ 35 to 45 workers to operate (not including the 250 jobs that will be created during its construction).
Facebook to Spend Nearly Half a Billion Dollars on New Data Center
The companies have put $48 million into Smooth-Stone, a start-up based in Austin, Tex., betting that it can modify low-power smartphone chips to run servers, the computers in corporate data centers. If successful, Smooth-Stone would undermine Intel’s server-chip business and offer companies, especially those with vast data centers like , , and , enormous energy cost savings. Acknowledging the David vs. Goliath struggle ahead, the company’s name is a nod to David’s weapon.
Smooth-Stone Aims to Make Low-Power Chip - NYTimes.com
Using NCSA httpd 1.3 as a base, we added all of the published bug fixes and worthwhile enhancements we could find, tested the result on our own servers, and made the first official public release (0.6.2) of the Apache server in April 1995. By coincidence, NCSA restarted their own development during the same period, and Brandon Long and Beth Frank of the NCSA Server Development Team joined the list in March as honorary members so that the two projects could share ideas and fixes. The early Apache server was a big hit, but we all knew that the codebase needed a general overhaul and redesign.
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Apache HTTP Server - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Apache HTTP Server , commonly referred to as Apache ( / ə ˈ p æ tʃ iː / ), is web server software notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web . [ 3 ] In 2009 it became the first web server software to surpass the 100 million website milestone. [ 4 ] Apache was the first viable alternative to the Netscape Communications Corporation web server (currently named Oracle iPlanet Web Server ), and since has evolved to rival other web servers in terms of functionality and performance [ citation needed ] . Typically Apache is run on a Unix-like operating system. [ 5 ] Apache is developed and maintained by an open community of developers under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation . The application is available for a wide variety of operating systems , including Unix , FreeBSD , Linux , Solaris , Novell NetWare , Mac OS X , Microsoft Windows , OS/2 , TPF , and eComStation . Released under the Apache License , Apache is open-source software .
KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.ko, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module, kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.ko. KVM also requires a modified QEMU although work is underway to get the required changes upstream. Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified Linux or Windows images.
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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.
The Economics of Servers Could Soon Change: Tech News «
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.
VIA Nano 3000 Series Processors Based on a new and enhanced 'Isaiah' architecture, and taking advantages of key fabrication optimizations, the latest VIA Nano 3000 Series processors deliver improved computational performance of approx twenty percent while also using up to twenty percent less energy overall. These core improvements make the VIA Nano 3000 series processors an even more compelling option for a range of devices including thin and light notebooks, bringing a rich HD entertainment experience, including support for smooth playback of high bit-rate HD video, as well as low power consumption resulting in longer battery life. New VIA Nano 3000 Series processors also bring enhanced digital media performance and lower power consumption to Windows 7-based devices including all-in-one desktop PC.
VIA Nano™ Processor - VIA Technologies, Inc.
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. 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.
Lenovo delays ARM-based netbook? • reghardware
Perspectives - 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.
Reed's Ruminations: A Blog by Dan Reed
In recent months, I have spent a great deal of my time talking to governments about science and technology policy and innovation. Money, or more accurately, the lack thereof, is a common theme that runs through all of the conversations, whether in the United States, the European Union, Japan or other parts of Asia. The global economy is still struggling to recover from the recession of 2008, the economic malaise in Europe is very real, and political and economic gridlock in the U.S. threatens the country's ability to chart a competitive future.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.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.
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