Facebook VP Slams Intel's, AMD's Chip Performance Claims 370
narramissic writes "In an interview on stage at GigaOm's Structure conference in San Francisco on Thursday, Jonathan Heiliger, Facebook's VP of technical operations, told Om Malik that the latest generations of server processors from Intel and AMD don't deliver the performance gains that 'they're touting in the press.' 'And we're, literally in real time right now, trying to figure out why that is,' Heiliger said. He also had some harsh words for server makers: 'You guys don't get it,' Heiliger said. 'To build servers for companies like Facebook, and Amazon, and other people who are operating fairly homogeneous applications, the servers have to be cheap, and they have to be super power-efficient.' Heiliger added that Google has done a great job designing and building its own servers for this kind of use."
Well I suppose... (Score:4, Funny)
Well, I suppose that if he does not like the offerings from Intel and AMD, they could always go with...
Uh..
Oh.
Re:Sun.... (Score:3, Funny)
Sun?.... you are crazy to go with sun and there platform now.. its all dead now..
Larry? Is that you?
Re:You're Computin' for a Shootin' Mister (Score:5, Funny)
I vote for the seal clubbing thing.
Re:You're Computin' for a Shootin' Mister (Score:5, Funny)
i don't know that i agree with some of googles design choices
I'm sure they'll get right on that, random slashdot guy...
Re:You're Computin' for a Shootin' Mister (Score:5, Funny)
What's with everyone creating new units of measure? "We're going to need some 3 Seal Cable for this job!"
Would you expect otherwise (Score:5, Funny)
Google's core business is intelligence.
Facebooks core business is stupidity.
Re:You're Computin' for a Shootin' Mister (Score:5, Funny)
If we're gonna start the AC vs. DC war again, I call dibs on tasering the elephant this time.
Re:Hm... (Score:5, Funny)
Google says you lie.
http://xkcd.com/357/ [xkcd.com]
http://community.discovery.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9701967776/m/4071911989 [discovery.com]
Hang on a minute... (Score:4, Funny)
Hah, hah, hah, hah, hah !At least google needed to actually engineer their solution, but Facebook, come on ! The next time I need to write a PHP script for displaying photos and text, I'll hire my 13 year old daughter.
Re:You're Computin' for a Shootin' Mister (Score:2, Funny)
Re:You're Computin' for a Shootin' Mister (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You're Computin' for a Shootin' Mister (Score:5, Funny)
But ... but ... you'll need Cat 9 to get rid of the cat completely?
Re:You're Computin' for a Shootin' Mister (Score:3, Funny)
But that will void your warranty!
Re:You're Computin' for a Shootin' Mister (Score:5, Funny)