Ethernet-powered LED lighting :D
Looking at the specs for the lighting, it seems like they can pull about 2kw over two ethernet lines. I had no idea you could run that much wattage over cat6!
Must take a special router to support that.
Facebook open sources its servers and data centers
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Re: Facebook open sources its servers and data centers
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"Please take a look, tell us what we did wrong and join us in working together to make every data center more efficient." Mad Props.
Indeed. This is how I want to see society. Sharing knowledge for the greater good. Probably the reason I'm not a fan of detriments of this such as software patents and Apple in general.
Apple has open sourced a lot of their projects. Check it out: http://opensource.apple.com/ http://developer.apple.com/opensource/
Re: Facebook open sources its servers and data centers
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Facebook's core advantage is the social graph, not the infrastructure operation, which is Google's thing. Consequently, Facebook has tight grip on the access of its graph whereas Google keeps the secrets about its search algorithm and server setup. By open-source it, Facebook is not only getting good PR but also undercutting the competitor.
This is a nice benefit of two companies competing asynchronously (each has a different core competency). The open source community gets the non-core competency of both. Now if only there was a company whose non-core competency was Google-style spelling check ("Did you mean to search for..")
Now if only there was a company whose non-core competency was Google-style spelling check
Re: Facebook open sources its servers and data centers
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Releasing information about this helps others better compete with Facebook's competitors while not diminishing the value of Facebook's core asset at all.
Should the design proliferate into other DCs, it would provide a ready disaster recovery base (perhaps even sharing agreements between different operators). Was anything mentioned about the OS running the servers ? I presume it is an optimized linux, but who knows.
It's just CentOS
Re: Facebook open sources its servers and data centers
#105I'd be very interested in hearing from someone with more experience in running their own hardware what portions (if any) of what Facebook has announced today is applicable at the small scale of say having a couple of co-located racks in some datacenter. Maybe the base server designs?
I can give you an interesting data point: our power bill is only about $600/mo (2.5KWh), our bandwidth bill is about $3,500/mo (1.2Gbps). So power is a smaller consideration.
If you are in the USA, you are overpaying for bandwidth by about $700/month or so.