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How Facebook Is Saving Power By 10-15% Through Better Load Balancing

Posted by timothy on from the 10-percent-at-web-scale dept.

An anonymous reader writes Facebook today revealed details about Autoscale, a system for power-efficient load balancing that has been rolled out to production clusters in its data centers. The company says it has "demonstrated significant energy savings." For those who don't know, load balancing refers to distributing workloads across multiple computing resources, in this case servers. The goal is to optimize resource use, which can mean different things depending on the task at hand.

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  1. They could save 100% by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just turn it off.

  2. We all could save energy... by MS · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not only Facebook, but the end-users also could save a lot of electricity by not using Facebook at all. People should get out and have a real social life.