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Facebook stretches ARM chips in datacentre testsFacebook is putting ARM and Tilera processors through tests in its datacentres, as it explores using non-x86 chips for some applications to reduce its electricity bill and boost performance.
Two hardware engineers at the social-networking company told ZDNet recently that they are testing the processors and are keen on them for certain applications. However, they did not disclose how many chips the company is using.
On a recent visit to Facebook's hardware lab, the company's manager of system engineering Amir Michael explained that the chip testing was going on in Facebook's datacentres.
«The reason you don't see any [equipment] here is that all of those ARM and Tilera systems are being tested against production traffic,» Michael said.
Facebook is evaluating ARM's chips for their low-power characteristics and reasonable compute capability. However, it won't be until the launch of 64-bit variants next year that it gets serious about the processors, the engineers indicated.
«I think ARM-64 is much more interesting for datacentre computing,» Matt Corddry, Facebook's manager of hardware design, said. «We're very interested about that hitting the market… we love what the ARM community is doing.»
Скорее наоборот. Новый уровень оптимизации. Ведь не для кого не секрет что Гугл делает свои серверы. Да и потом, если уж биржевые игроки выпускают для себя специальные чипы для высокочастотного трейдинга, то Гуглу сам бог велел этим заняться.
ну может. Только если оптимизировать то это стагнация. Быть может они хотят сделать возможным решение круга задач ранее нерешаемых из-за ограничений стандартной архитектуры железа.
