Proebsting's Law

[Matt Sergeant]

On 14 Dec 2005, at 11:44, Jacqui Caren wrote:

> Matt Sergeant wrote:
>> Sadly Moore's Law doesn't speed up the 2000-ish servers we have out 
>> in data centres.
>
> Given the lifespan of these systems (a few years max) and their cost
> how many companies purchase, rent or use leaseback?

Depends which end of the scale you're at. At this end I bet hardly 
anyone rents because they have serious security issues to consider. 
Plus we get economies of scale doing it ourselves.

FWIW, we seem to get about 5 years out of a server, so compiler 
optimisations (more importantly gcc improvements) have made a 
difference to us.

Matt.


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