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Facebook VP Slams Intel's, AMD's Chip Performance Claims

Posted by timothy on from the more-than-half-of-you-less-than-half-as-well-as-you-deserve dept.

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."

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  1. Well I suppose... by cptnapalm · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, I suppose that if he does not like the offerings from Intel and AMD, they could always go with...

    Uh..

    Oh.

  2. Re:Sun.... by Temkin · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sun?.... you are crazy to go with sun and there platform now.. its all dead now..

    Larry? Is that you?

  3. Re:You're Computin' for a Shootin' Mister by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I vote for the seal clubbing thing.

  4. Re:You're Computin' for a Shootin' Mister by node+3 · · 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...

  5. Re:You're Computin' for a Shootin' Mister by jamesh · · Score: 5, Funny

    cable so thick you could club a seal to death with it.

    What's with everyone creating new units of measure? "We're going to need some 3 Seal Cable for this job!"

  6. Would you expect otherwise by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 4, Funny

    If that's his argument, then it would seem that the real conclusion is that Facebook can't build systems as good as Google's

    Google's core business is intelligence.
    Facebooks core business is stupidity.

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    Boffoonery - downloadable Comedy Benefit for Bletchley Park
  7. Re:You're Computin' for a Shootin' Mister by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If we're gonna start the AC vs. DC war again, I call dibs on tasering the elephant this time.

  8. Re:Hm... by MaskedSlacker · · Score: 4, Funny

    Google says you lie.

    http://xkcd.com/357/

    http://community.discovery.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9701967776/m/4071911989

  9. Hang on a minute... by OneSmartFellow · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...I'm supposed to care about the comments of the guy who wrote Facebook ?

    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.

  10. Re:You're Computin' for a Shootin' Mister by TheLink · · Score: 1, Funny

    Talk about getting a seal of approval.

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  11. Re:You're Computin' for a Shootin' Mister by pseudonomous · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, I finally get it now, Cat 5 cable can kill five cats, and cat 6 can kill SIX cats.

  12. Re:You're Computin' for a Shootin' Mister by Ihlosi · · Score: 5, Funny
    Oh, I finally get it now, Cat 5 cable can kill five cats, and cat 6 can kill SIX cats.

    But ... but ... you'll need Cat 9 to get rid of the cat completely?

  13. Re:You're Computin' for a Shootin' Mister by MonoSynth · · Score: 2, Funny

    But that will void your warranty!

  14. Re:You're Computin' for a Shootin' Mister by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seals actually have an excellent warranty; but the sticker says "Warranty void if seal is broken" so the warranty has never been successfully claimed.