The databases themselves, 15, 700 of them, reside in a server farm below Reed's Dayton campus.
Example: A server farm drinks as much juice as a town of 25, 000.
Eric Bender, who is about to submit plans for the server farm, will not have to lay much fibre-optic cable.
According to Attrition.org, the defacement did not show up at all times because the MSNBC site is run on a server farm.
Most of the intensive computation is done elsewhere, at the server farm.
For more than a year a team of three very smart engineers set out to reinvent a server farm for the 21st century.
The server farm has a single entrance and is outfitted by half-meter thick metal doors and backup generators pulled from German submarines --fitting safeguards, perhaps.
After some prompting by MIT Technology Review during a chat, East argued that power efficiency is "actually what matters, " whether it's a phone or a server farm.
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Kenneth O'Donnell , lead reliability engineer at Boeing, is looking to overhaul 80 motors--between 5 hp and 7.5 hp--that run cooling fans at the company's giant server farm in Kent, Wash.
Data center electricity consumption is now half that of a typical facility, according to the company, which has published a white paper on how to green up a server farm.
There are servers synchronized with the New York Stock Exchange and other exchanges, but many banks are keen on keeping the crown jewels in the server closet not the server farm.
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According to NVIDIA it took years of research, the creation of a server farm, and an insanely deep and analytical understanding of every combination of hardware and architecture possible in the average home.
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One benefit of being in the "server farm" business is that so many businesses across sectors depend on having access to massive amounts of data, storage and processing power to keep their businesses running.
Does it make sense to ban the old light bulb in a world where we are encouraged to store Terrabytes of pointless photographs forever on fire-hot Web-servers forever spinning in a Google server farm?
You're just a piece of aluminium coated in some sort of magnetic substance in a server farm located in a country where the climate makes it economically viable to keep the machines at constant temperature.
To do that you need an antenna, and Aereo has a server farm that includes a rather large number of antenna so that each customer has one antenna, and the received signal is then piped through the Internet to a receiving client.
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The Death Manager lets you tell Google what to do with the data from all of your Google accounts, including most intimately, your Gmail messages, if your account goes inactive, presumably because you have gone to the great server farm in the sky.
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If the server farm is doing a lot of work to take in cell tower distance data and spit back car locations, it can certainly do each calculation faster than any endpoint, particularly a small one, but what happens when 1 million endpoints are hitting the cloud at the same time?
As a result, all application data had to be stored in a database server so that the application could retrieve it from any server in the farm.
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The emergence of hardware and software IP load-balancers in the late 1990s catalyzed the development of server-farms by transparently distributing incoming client requests among the servers of a farm.
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Virtualization DOES work, but in a narrow sense: if you need a dedicated server, not so much for power as for security, data integrity, and the like, you can farm out a VPS a lot cheaper than you can farm out a whole machine.
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