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Because the F in the Doom BFG stands for friendly, too...
TidalScale is building a software-defined server product. But how would that work, as it needs to run in a server and you can’t really redefine the server you are running in, can you? Its software creates virtual machines, of course, called TidalPods, and these are used to “right-size” X86 servers dynamically to application …
Just keep adding chunks of hardware as the computing demand grows?
There does seem to be an assumption that servers are so powerful these days that they can usually (always?) run more than one VM.
Does anyone know of workloads so big they strain one server but can't be distributed?
Met Office, for example, used to need very big iron for weather modelling.
The IEEE Published a paper on TidalScale in IEEE Computer they have a link on the web site to the paper. Ike Nassi the author was the Chief Scientist at SAP.
https://www.tidalscale.com/hubfs/Marcom/White%20Papers/IEEE%20%20Scaling%20the%20Computer%20to%20the%20Problem.pdf?hsCtaTracking=bad11b47-4b16-43aa-95b9-a840d3fb296e%7Cb22cda54-dbf8-4b6c-be53-e23a108eb556