Tony, speaking about RAS, could you comment on this:
zdnet.com ?
"Each server, equipped with a 450MHz Advanced Micro Devices Inc. K6 processor and one hard drive, can run its own Unix, Linux, Windows or NetWare operating system."
"The servers are connected to two special-purpose networking compartments, called Limbix, that run Patmos' proprietary Parpois network management software. Parpois automatically manages the workload between the various nodes as well as fails over processing duties between servers when one fails. Each Limbix is equipped with a 750MHz AMD Athlon processor."
"One of the first customers to sample Perpetua is Honeywell Security Products (formerly Westinghouse Security Electronics). The Fremont, Calif., company purchased a four-node box with one Limbix system and is running Red Hat Linux 6.0."
"Jeri Donn, director of software development at Honeywell, said she had just installed the system."
"On paper, at least, we are believers. Now we have to see how it works," Donn said. "The way it's designed, if we pull one component out, it will continue to work. In terms of specifications, I haven't seen anything that comes close to this. And at this kind of price, people will go for it."
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P.S. From your prospective I would guess the manufacturer
choose AMD processors just to prove the concept,
because of low reliability as per your opinion. Right?
But I fail to understand why would the Westinghouse
Security Electronics buy this server. Any idea? :) |
