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Facebook to Deploy Xeon-based Servers|
- By CXOtoday Staff, Aug 01, 2008 1016 hrs IST
- Tags : Facebook, Intel, Intel Xeon processor 5400 series, open source
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Facebook has planned a large scale deployment of Intel Xeon processor-based servers over the next year to help scale expansion and meet processing needs of the social networking giant's media applications.
The company will deploy the Intel Xeon processor 5400 series, beginning July this year.
The two have also signed a collaboration agreement that focuses on technology evaluation and benchmarking. Intel also plans to work with Facebook to evaluate ways to improve its software performance on Intel-based servers.
A press statement stated Intel will work to address Facebook's processing needs through assessment of chipset and server platform configurations, delivery of energy efficient processors, and allocation of software engineering for optimal performance from Facebook's servers.
Since Facebook's applications are mostly built on open source technologies, the companies believe that some of the insights from this collaboration may be contributed back to the open source community, benefiting other companies that use similar underlying technologies.
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