The Drive to The Drive to Improved Improved

Performance/watt Performance/watt and Increasing and Increasing

Compute DensityCompute Density

Steve Pawlowski Steve Pawlowski Intel Senior FellowIntel Senior Fellow

GM, Architecture and PlanningGM, Architecture and PlanningCTO, Digital Enterprise GroupCTO, Digital Enterprise Group

Intel CorporationIntel Corporation

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Green IT - #1 IT IssueGreen IT - #1 IT Issue

Energy Costs and Cooling #1 Growth Limiters…Energy Costs and Cooling #1 Growth Limiters…

Power and Cooling Capacity Limiting Growth

Source: Liebert Data Center User Group, Spring 2008

0% 20% 40% 60%

Cooling

Power Density

Availability Requirements

Data Center Monitoring

Energy Efficiency

Space

Consolidation “Intel and Google Join with Dell, EDS, EPA, HP, IBM, Lenovo, Microsoft, PG&E, World Wildlife Fund and Others to Launch Climate Savers Computing Initiative”

- Intel News Release, June 12, 2007

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CERN’s Projected Computing Need vs. Power DensityCERN’s Projected Computing Need vs. Power Density

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16000

33000

20112011 20122012Source: “Strategies for increasing data centre power efficiency,” Dr. Andreas Hirstius, Sverre Jarp, Andrzej Nowak. CERN Openlab, 19 February 2008

kSPECInt2000Power (MW)

1.51.5

2.02.0

2.5 2.5 (CERN (CERN limit)limit)

2.5 or 2.5 or 5.0 ?5.0 ?

2008 to 2012:2008 to 2012: 4.5X (35% CAGR) computing density increase, but with 4.5X (35% CAGR) computing density increase, but with thermal limit of 2.5 MW to possible 5 MW (requires new facility)thermal limit of 2.5 MW to possible 5 MW (requires new facility)

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Limitations Driving Server Compute Improvements Limitations Driving Server Compute Improvements

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20132013 20142014

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7.6

11.7

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2.1 2.73.6

5.2 5.6

Bandwidth with 2Level Memory

Constrained Memory Bandwidth

Unconstrained Memory Bandwidth

Intercept CERN’s Density Requirement for 4.5X compute @ 2.5MW

Assume: Constrained memory BW is pin limited with planned memory technology and frequency of the time frame: DDR3 speed up to 2133 MHz and 4 memory channels

Source: Intel, future computing density projection

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Technology ConceptsTechnology Concepts

‘New Interface’Multiples of DDR3

BW

2Level memory provides potential TCO improvement 2Level memory provides potential TCO improvement

CPU

High density solutions for scale out workloadsHigh density solutions for scale out workloads

30-40W Low Power µBlade concept30-40W Low Power µBlade concept

Memory 1 Memory 2

Standard Memory Interface

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Data Center InnovationsData Center Innovations

High density data centersHigh density data centers

Containerized data centersContainerized data centers

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Innovations to Increase Compute DensityInnovations to Increase Compute Density

SiliconProcessSilicon

Process

Target 50% yearlyimprovements inperformance/watt

Target 50% yearlyimprovements inperformance/watt

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pute

Den

sity

Com

pute

Den

sity

Data CenterInnovation

Data CenterInnovation

PowerManagement

PowerManagement

SmallForm Factor

SmallForm Factor

NewTechnology

NewTechnology++ ++ ++ ++

Datacenter of the FutureDatacenter of the Future

Source: Intel, based on Intel YoY improvement with SpecPower Benchmark

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