Home Linux-cluster of 20 servers, for only $ 1000
Recently a miniature Linux server appeared - “Linux server in the form of a power supply” , made on the Marvell Sheeva CPU 1.2GHz system-on-chip (SoC) with an ARM architecture.
This server seems to be designed not for end (home) users, and then the question arises: why was this server done in the form of a power supply unit for a regular home outlet?
Surely it would be impossible to make it in the form of a small "Blade" - "Blade-server" for the server rack!
Just imagine how you are at your hoster, place a small Marvell server in the rack, costing only $ 50. Or Hoster himself will offer you a new service - placing your site on such a small and cheap, but fully-fledged and independent from all neighbors, server!
For not very large sites (probably up to 10 - 20 simultaneous sessions, and this is up to 10 thousand visitors per day), its capacity should be quite enough (well, maybe I would like to expand the Flash disk, at least to 2 - 4 Gb).
And for large sites, it is necessary to combine the 100-and 1000-chi such small Blade `s in a single cluster (than what Google, for example, usually does).
And then each of your site from now will have "not virtual", and its full-fledged - server !!!
And if Marvell cooperated, for example, with Asus or NEXCOM (see “NEXCOM Blade Servers: Universal Computing Platform” ) and releasing a version of this wonderful Plug Computing, as a Blade server, for a specially designed, standard tower - rack-mount ATX-case.
That would have resulted in such a new case from Asus in which one could cram up to 20 pieces of small Marvell `s Blade servers.
At the same time, Google would open for free its perfect Cluster technology, which allows to see all 20 servers as one single LAMP product :)
Just imagine - how the Turret can live in your home, in which a whole cluster of 20 servers can fit in [$ 20 * $ 50 = $ 1,000], for only $ 1,000 :)
Here, of course, it will be possible even to become a “home” hosting provider :))))
Something similar is already there, but once in 20 it is more expensive - see the articles:
1. “IBM's new concept: clusters on Linux + blade servers = cheap supercomputer” - 05/21/2003;
2. “Supercomputers to the masses” - 06.05.2005;
3. "16-core" personal supercomputer "- already at the end of the year" - 08.06.2006;
4. "40-core personal supercomputer is already on sale" - 03/23/07;
5. "Personal supercomputers for home and office: an assessment of problems and prospects" - 5.08.2007;
6. “SiCortex Catapult SC072 - a supercomputer on the table” - November 6, 2007;
7. "Microsoft and Cray have created a supercomputer worth from 25 thousand dollars" - September 22, 2008;
8. “AMAX ServMax PSC - personal supercomputer based on NVIDIA GPU” - 10/31/2008;
9. “Personal supercomputer released” - 19.11.2008.
This server seems to be designed not for end (home) users, and then the question arises: why was this server done in the form of a power supply unit for a regular home outlet?
Surely it would be impossible to make it in the form of a small "Blade" - "Blade-server" for the server rack!
Just imagine how you are at your hoster, place a small Marvell server in the rack, costing only $ 50. Or Hoster himself will offer you a new service - placing your site on such a small and cheap, but fully-fledged and independent from all neighbors, server!
For not very large sites (probably up to 10 - 20 simultaneous sessions, and this is up to 10 thousand visitors per day), its capacity should be quite enough (well, maybe I would like to expand the Flash disk, at least to 2 - 4 Gb).
And for large sites, it is necessary to combine the 100-and 1000-chi such small Blade `s in a single cluster (than what Google, for example, usually does).
And then each of your site from now will have "not virtual", and its full-fledged - server !!!
And if Marvell cooperated, for example, with Asus or NEXCOM (see “NEXCOM Blade Servers: Universal Computing Platform” ) and releasing a version of this wonderful Plug Computing, as a Blade server, for a specially designed, standard tower - rack-mount ATX-case.
That would have resulted in such a new case from Asus in which one could cram up to 20 pieces of small Marvell `s Blade servers.
At the same time, Google would open for free its perfect Cluster technology, which allows to see all 20 servers as one single LAMP product :)
Just imagine - how the Turret can live in your home, in which a whole cluster of 20 servers can fit in [$ 20 * $ 50 = $ 1,000], for only $ 1,000 :)
Here, of course, it will be possible even to become a “home” hosting provider :))))
Something similar is already there, but once in 20 it is more expensive - see the articles:
1. “IBM's new concept: clusters on Linux + blade servers = cheap supercomputer” - 05/21/2003;
2. “Supercomputers to the masses” - 06.05.2005;
3. "16-core" personal supercomputer "- already at the end of the year" - 08.06.2006;
4. "40-core personal supercomputer is already on sale" - 03/23/07;
5. "Personal supercomputers for home and office: an assessment of problems and prospects" - 5.08.2007;
6. “SiCortex Catapult SC072 - a supercomputer on the table” - November 6, 2007;
7. "Microsoft and Cray have created a supercomputer worth from 25 thousand dollars" - September 22, 2008;
8. “AMAX ServMax PSC - personal supercomputer based on NVIDIA GPU” - 10/31/2008;
9. “Personal supercomputer released” - 19.11.2008.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/52872/
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