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#News(IoTStack) [ via IoTForIndiaGroup ]
Intel has shrunk its number of data centers from 152 in 2003 to just 51, but Krishnapura explains that this was caused by a desire to shrink the company’s data center footprint. They closed the inefficient centers and focused on facilities that could handle new developments and push for lower PUEs. Despite closing so many centers, Intel is more powerful than ever.
“In 2002, we had 14,191 servers with single-core, two-socket CPUs, totaling 28,000 cores,” Krishnapura said. “Now we have 260,000 servers, we have 2 million cores, more than 315 petabytes of storage and more than half a billion network ports within the data center.”To achieve this feat, they’ve made changes to the actual structure of the server racks: instead of the industry standard of 42 units at six feet tall, Intel has racks that contain 60 units and stand nine feet tall; they are also four inches slimmer.
“In 50 linear feet, where you can put 25 standard racks, we can put 30 of them. And as they’re taller, we can put a lot more servers: each rack supports all the way up to 280 servers, and each rack can support up to 43kW peak power load.”
Additionally, they use disaggregated servers which can be upgraded independently; though more than 200 billion fasteners are used in the U.S. every year, it only takes the removal of four screws — and subsequently 23% of the time spent previously — to assemble and disassemble server racks and access the units within.
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