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Facebook VP Slams Intel's, AMD's Chip Performance Claims
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."
Hm, lets see... perhaps because Facebook and Amazon are niche markets?
Niche market? Considering over 100 million people are logging into Facebook every day and Amazon is massive online retail entity I would hardly call them niche.
Some info on Facebook:
- More than 200 million active users
- More than 100 million users log on to Facebook at least once each day
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
http://www.alexa.com/topsites
Facebook is the fourth most popular website according to Alexa and Amazon is at 34. Niche? Really?
Ever since I accepted their invitation to use my (very unusual) name openly on Facebook, every single variation on that name has been spammed. This Heilinger jackass can take his "harsh words" about the performance of people who do real hardware work and shove them deep and hard. You can't bullshit a chip, you can merely mis-state its performance. When you lie about how you'll protect information people give you in trust, you're pretty much a douchebag. Mr. Heiliger, you are a douchebag.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.