From Excess to Balance: The Collapse of All-You-Can-EatA few years ago, I noticed that things were changing in the Eclipse Foundation's (EF) IT operations: we were adding servers, and lots of them. Trays of 3U mega-machines, packing 14 compute units each, with on-board switches, immense fans and drawing much electrical power, providing our community with CPU cycles galore. Storage devices could not keep up, so in came the clustered mega-storage solution, nine massive machines with drives and ...
