[Beowulf] Servers Too Hot? Intel Recommends a Luxurious Oil Bath

[Ellis H. Wilson III]

On 09/05/2012 02:46 PM, Douglas Eadline wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure that google actually does servicing per se.. they mark it
>> dead, and just move on.  The cost to service (or even to diagnose) is
>> probably higher than the cost of just overprovisioning.
>
> I would assume this as well. Over provision for an expected
> decay rate and life cycle. Colonizing insects figured this
> out already.

Not sure if they still do it, but in the video I shared they clearly 
demonstrate a tech replacing a unit (kind of, he put a unit in where a 
slot blocker was, but they didn't say whether that was previously empty 
or was from a pulled unit).  I have doubts that they try to fix all (or 
any of) those bad, pulled units, but I bet to try and take maximum 
advantage of the cooling and switching expenses per container they do 
swap them out in chunks, maybe when some threshold is hit on a container 
(10 or more machines dead or some such thing).

Best,

ellis