Comments on: Green servers https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=252 Wed, 18 May 2005 03:21:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.10 By: Jean-Sebastien https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=252&cpage=1#comment-603 Tue, 17 May 2005 02:37:16 +0000 /?p=252#comment-603 One of the biggest consumer of power from their server farms is probably Google. Although it’s probably one of their biggest expense (in addition to being environmentally unfriendly), if we look into how the Google file system was designed [1], we can see that energy saving was not a requirement. Hopefully this is changing, no matter if they are driven by environmental or economical motivations.

[1] Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, Shun-Tak Leung: The Google file system. SOSP 2003: 29-43

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