What Larry is talking about is iCod, or "capacity on demand." Basically
the machine is fully populated with CPUs even though you don't currently
need them, and they are enabled when you need the capacity. You don't
pay for them until you need them.
This is a piece of "virtual computing" as I understand it, as your
CPU resource is abstracted into a variable capacity (and cost)
item. But that's only CPUs - storage is a key piece as well, as
is the network infrastructure. Managing the whole thing at an
abstract level is what it seems like people are talking about
when they talk about "virtual computing."
- Greg
Michael Berkowitz wrote:
> Isn't Larry's example of how Superdome and other high end HP-UX boxes
> operate?
>
> Mike Berkowitz
> Guess? Inc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shahan, Ray [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 11:01 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Virtual computing
>
>
> That, too, is yet another version, but not really 'true virtual'
> computing
> (as I understand it). ;-)
>
> Ray Shahan
>
> "There is so much good in the worst of us,
> and so much bad in the best of us,
> that it behooves none of us
> to talk about the rest of us"
> --Robert Louis Stevenson?
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Larry Barnes [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>>Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 11:57 AM
>>To: Shahan, Ray; [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] Virtual computing
>>
>>My understand is, you still own the boxes and are charged for only the
>>cpu usage used. You have 1 box with 12 processors and if you only use
>
> 6
>
>>during your peak then you are only charged for 50% of the cpu usage.
>>This usage is recorded in a log file, of sorts, and transmitted daily
>
> to
>
>>HP, Big Brother, etc. and they bill you monthly, quarterly,
>>semi-annually, etc. based on your contract with them.
--
Greg Cagle
gregc at gregcagle dot com
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