At Scale Green Computing Innovations for Datacenter Transformation

摘要

Summary form only given, as follows. The complete presentation was not made available for publication as part of the conference proceedings. Datacenters are the backbone of internet commerce and cloud storage, and they are also hugely important to support the computational and transactional needs of today’s corporate world. They currently consume 3% the world’s electrical supply, and the world produces upwards of 50 million metric tons of e-waste annually. Thus, Total Cost to the Environment (TCE) is as important as Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for datacenters. Intel has a huge datacenter investment with over 290,000 servers (which include over 2 million Xeon high clock cores), over 384 petabytes of storage, and more than 545,000 network ports within its 86- Megawatt data center capacity. This infrastructure is required to support efforts including complex chip design, and Intel’s overall computing needs have grown in excess of 6000% over the past 13 years. This talk will discuss aspects of the complexities of building and maintaining these datacenters, as well as how green computing initiatives have delivered substantial power reduction costs while significantly contributing towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Being Green is not just running datacenters at the most efficient Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) levels, but also reducing e-waste.