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How do server farms work?
Here we are with our few gigahertz processors and throughput measured in a few megahertz. Seems like a farm with thousands of servers must be measured in terahertz with each server running at a speed similar to our devices. I understand fiber optic for the trunk line. Is there just one or a bundle of trunk lines? At what point does it switch from fiber optics? And other such overview questions. Thanks.
I'm looking for a more technical description Luke.
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- Luke TerranceLv 47 years agoFavorite Answer
Yo answer this try asking.
What's a Farm?
an area of land and its buildings, used for growing crops and rearing animals.
Or in this scenario servers.
Whats a Server?
a computer or computer program which manages access to a centralized resource or service in a network.
A more common term from the thing you are describing would be data centre.
a large group of networked computer servers typically used by organizations for the remote storage, processing, or distribution of large amounts of data.
Hope that helped all the best.
