Facebook's latest big idea: Group Hug
Look forget. Facebook latest motherboard feat, even for a technology-.
Affectionately called Group Hug circuit is an open source server: - One day FORTUNE allows users to quickly find information about the network after announcing a search Facebook (FB) has introduced another product potentially dangerous. Facebook is an amazing piece of hardware aesthetic challenge is no less than the hype created in the previous announcement. But, like the effect of changing data centers manner can be built.
Why not? Facebook mother of all motherboards kneecap allows the insertion of chips from different manufacturers. Thus, a single server, Intel (INTC) x86 ARM Holdings technology or British (ARMH) designs and at home, competing architectures. If approved, the Group Hug does not tend to play nice with the record is a drastic change in an industry, to be known for building machines. And finally, the chips based on ARM servers paused, opening the way for manufacturers to market is currently dominated by Intel.
Group Hug advanced motherboards Facebook, the social networking company, but also the Open Compute Project (OCP), a group of the world through an "open-source" efforts more efficient data center hardware designs Crowdsource runs about 18 months above. That the project had an official member-only Facebook. But on Wednesday, in a Santa Clara, California, about 2,000 people gathered at the convention center, visit the Fourth Summit of the OCP. The project is no longer Intel, EMC (EMC), ARM Holdings, AMD (NYSE: AMD) and SanDisk (SNDK), including heavyweights such as more than 50 members. "Arch-rivals in the same room to see everything that's really interesting," said Frank Frankovsky says Facebook VP of hardware design. "I still have a bit controversial."
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Facebook is not just pushing new motherboards with interchangeable plugs. Thanks to members of open computing and its own internal research and development projects, shelf, new storage technologies and trying to drive innovation throughout the data center.
Wednesday Open Compute Summit Keynote, infrastructure engineering VP Jay Parikh, Facebook's data centers, are small storage devices such as smart a big push for greater use of Flash, he said. In fact, a new member of the Open Compute Fusion-io (FIO), Pandora (P), Rhapsody, and Ning (According to media reports, not Facebook and Apple (AAPL) to name), signed by the customer and announced that open source project, some of the hardware design.
Facebook data center technology, there is a good reason for increased productivity and innovation. 350 million photos per day, the company owns. Processing and all those baby photos and possibly qualifying them existing technology new search Facebook for archiving data center is not an easy role. "Go to Mark [Zuckerberg] and I do not know, I can not comment on the data center the next two years, said:" Parikh told Fortune. "We're thinking big and moving fast." Thank you CNN.From Reetime News Technology.
