While the image that the high-tech industry has adopted for the source of services delivered over a remote network — the cloud — conjures thoughts of airy skies where quasi-magical things happen, the actual cloud is firmly anchored to the ground in data centers bristling with computer servers. As the cloud continues to expand, so does the demand for servers — servers that consume more and more resources like electricity, space and capital. What’s to be done? An obvious answer is to create servers that consume less power, take up less space and cost less to deploy.
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New 'Server on a Chip' Aims to Lighten Up Cloud Hardware
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. November 2, 2011 09:47 AMWhile the image that the high-tech industry has adopted for the source of services delivered over a remote network — the cloud — conjures thoughts of airy skies where quasi-magical things happen, the actual cloud is firmly anchored to the ground in data centers bristling with computer servers. As the cloud continues to expand, so does the demand for servers — servers that consume more and more resources like electricity, space and capital. What’s to be done? An obvious answer is to create servers that consume less power, take up less space and cost less to deploy.