Facebook VP Says Intel, AMD Don't Deliver Promised Performance Increase
Facebook VP Says Intel, AMD Don't Deliver Promised Performance Increase
Posted 06/30/2009 at 2:29pm
| by Pulkit Chandna
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Jonathan Heiliger, vp of technical operations at Facebook, came down heavily on chip manufacturers Intel, AMD for making tall claims about server chips that eventually don’t live up to the hype. He was speaking at the Structure 09 conference in San Francisco.
"The performance gains they are touting in the press, we are not seeing in our applications. We are literally in real-time trying to figure out why that is and if there are optimizations that we can do. Otherwise, we are kind of left with current-generation technology and current-generation scale," he said during a Q&A session involving GigaOM’s founder Om Malik.
He said companies like Facebook and Amazon require their servers to be both power-efficient and affordable. Heiliger also commended Google for its server-designing prowess.
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Nuxes
June 30, 2009 at 10:53pm
Here is what Google's servers look like, if anyone was wondering:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html
Not exactly what you would expect from one of the largest tech companies in the world, but I guess the design is power effecient.
gatorXXX
June 30, 2009 at 4:24pm
What other choices do they have? It's either AMD or Intel. Take your pick. I still refuse to join facebook and twitter. Heck, I haven't even logged onto myspace since I got marrried almost 2 years ago.
nekollx
June 30, 2009 at 4:39pm
what about MyFace and SpaceBook? :P
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nekollx
June 30, 2009 at 3:03pm
google could make a mint running a data center :P
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