National Day: Walking through the cloud computing data center

National Day: Walking through the cloud computing data center

Looking back, the concept of cloud computing originated in 2006 (the first by Amazon and Google). However, Microsoft is a rising star and started in 2008. Now, it has become the world's leader in cloud computing under the leadership of nakula.

Have you ever been to the cloud computing data center? Generally, considering the security factors, most people are not allowed to access the cloud computing data center. About the summer of 2008, when I asked Lee Kai-Fu to visit Google's cloud computing data center, Lee Kai-Fu was denied for commercial secrets.

I remember, in the early autumn of 2000, I was able to enter the cloud computing data center in Shenzhen. I saw a lot of cabinets in a neat arrangement, which was scary for a while ,......

Let's get down to the truth. We have seen smartphones, which are small in size and have low hardware configurations. Imagine that the "processing unit" (a small server) in a cloud computing data center cabinet is as big as a book. A large cabinet contains 2,500 processing units, forming a "cluster" of servers ", 400 "clusters" (cabinets) are 1 million standard cloud computing servers. They constitute a cloud node for cloud computing. The energy consumption of cloud nodes is tens of thousands of Watts. At present, Microsoft Azure public cloud has more than 30 "cloud nodes" distributed across the world, the "most" in the world ".

The key question is, how can we build a "cloud computing" Platform (namely, a server Supervision and Control System) on these 100,000 servers to provide effective external services? The operating system running on a single small cloud computing server, windows or Linux, is no longer important. Users can order the services they need from the "Cloud" (infrastructure) and pay as you go "), without having to own these computing resources, you can reduce computing costs.

In the cloud computing era, it has no practical significance to create a "domestic Operating System. If the country has a "domestic" public cloud, the smart phone in the hands of the majority of users is only an online device, the configuration requirements are not high, the purchase cost is very low (each mobile phone more than one hundred yuan ), it doesn't matter if you lose it, Because Virtual phones in the public cloud will always belong to you!

Note: Today is the National Day. I wish you a happy holiday!

National Day: Walking through the cloud computing data center