Waste of computing power

Computer performance is getting higher and higher, software requirements for hardware are getting more and more abnormal, software is also more huge, In the past dos era, software was based on K computing, several hundred m a few years ago was a relatively large piece of software, and now the software is less than 1g, others do not believe what the software can do!

The software has high hardware requirements, and the hardware upgrade is faster. When Windows2000 was just launched, I used the P3 450 and M internal machines to run well, or the server version, it may not work now. Is it because the hardware is too old to slow down, or some SP-hitting machines in Windows2000 cannot run? Currently, Windows XP, Vista, and 7 cannot run on old machines. Some machines have good CPU usage and a small number of thieves. The operators complain about slow performance and require updating the machines, resulting in a waste of computing power.

Some enterprises I have come into contact with have several rooms and less than three or 400 servers. They run 24 hours a day and the servers are constantly increasing. The Enterprise Information Center is convenient for management, basically, new servers will be added to new projects, because the shared servers of multiple systems will cause management troubles. I know that some systems have a low computing workload (generally, the calculation workload of management systems is not large), the CPU is stable at 1% for a long time, and sometimes a dual-Machine Fault tolerance is required. Now the new server's computing capability is only 1%, and then it is basically eliminated three or four years later. If I want to talk about it, based on the current intel architecture server capabilities, it is no problem that 10 systems can be integrated, or the servers three years ago can meet the requirements without purchasing new machines. The Management System on Windows platform is mostly IIS and sqlserver. In the past, sqlserver2000 was able to find any machine quickly, but now the good hardware of sqlserver2005/2005 is slow, in fact, many lightweight relational databases, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Interbase, and Firebird, are small, fast, and powerful enough to meet the needs. Massive and bloated software also wastes computing power.

Now the servers are basically the largest resource-consuming users. I heard that Google's server farm should choose a place with a low cost of electricity, while some employees prefer not to turn off their computers at night and lack of computing power and excess capacity, time wasted!