Faster chips ‘cut cloud-computing bills’

October 23, 2012 Off By David

Grazed from BBC. Author: Editorial Staff.

Users could cut 30% off their bills for on-demand computer services by working out what sort of chip is on the servers they are renting, research suggests. On-demand, or cloud, services are built around what are advertised as clusters of generic computer servers.

But analysis reveals that some clusters are 40% faster than supposedly identical groups of machines. The statistics were gathered by working out which processors were used in the hardware behind the cloud service…

Hardware help

The research was done by computer scientists at the Deutsch Telekom Laboratories in Germany and Finland’s Aalto University, who did their analysis on Amazon’s EC2 cloud service. Cloud services let people rent computer power by the hour. A lot of small businesses use such services instead of running their own servers. In addition many others call on them when they have a short-lived need for a burst of computer power…

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