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Can Moore's Law Efficiencies Apply to the Whole-System Data Center? |
Moore's Law says that the number of transistors on a chip will double
approximately every 18 months, and a corollary that says, at about the
same cost. The computing performance and economic productivity benefits
of Moore's Law probably best explain global economic growth over the
past quarter century.
But, does Moore's Law work at the level of the whole system of a data
center? Can the number of transistors (inside all the servers) double
every 18 months at about the same cost, when the cost of the
infrastructure (power and cooling) necessary to support those
transistors is taken into account?
In this Podcast, Microsoft's chief of data centers, Mike Manos, explains
what Microsoft is doing in its new state-of-the-art data centers to
scale up Moore's Law from the chip-level to the 500,000 sq. ft. data
center level. If it can be done, then both the economic productivity of
enterprise computing can continue to grow, and the carbon footprint can
be reduced.
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