Jon 'Maddog' Hall On Project Cauã: a Server In Every Highrise 151
Qedward writes with an excerpt at TechWorld about a new project from
Jon "Maddog" Hall, which is about to launch in Brazil:
"The vision of Project Cauã is to promote more efficient computing following the thin client/server model, while creating up to two million privately-funded high-tech jobs in Brazil, and another three to four million in the rest of Latin America. Hall explained that Sao Paolo in Brazil is the second largest city in the Western Hemisphere and has about twelve times the population density of New York City. As a result, there are a lot of people living and working in very tall buildings. Project Cauã will aim to put a server system in the basement of all of these tall buildings and thin clients throughout the building, so that residents and businesses can run all of their data and applications remotely."
Thin clients (Score:2, Insightful)
Now I know you're making a jobs program. Replacing this crap will cost even more money.
Who's going to administer that? (Score:4, Insightful)
DEAR GOD WHY? (Score:5, Insightful)
Why would you ever want to do this, as opposed to letting the people choose what to run?
What possible benefit is there to this plan, other than to centralize and monitor user activity?
DON'T PUT SERVERS IN BASEMENTS (Score:5, Insightful)
Seriously, wtf? Maddog knows better than that.
In any really tall building, servers belong in the middle floor - which is probably already a service floor, if it's an intelligently designed high-rise building.
Cable runs decrease in density, thickness, and length when you put the servers in the center of the served area. It's also the safest single place in regards to disasters such as floods, hurricanes, civic unrest, and lightning strikes.
It's cheaper and more reliable to put servers in the middle of the middle floor.