Servers: Computers which host applications (and operating systems) for remote users.
Data centers are increasingly made up of disaggregated devices. But looks for Data center
powerhouse companies to change that.
- ATCA standards from telecom world will benefit all data centers. Everything hot swapable. But with fewer moving parts that is actually less of a big deal.
- Trend is for more comms direct to server core. We can buy off the shelf systems today with 20GigE direct to multiple core servers. Infiniband scales higher direct to core and across the enterprise fabric.
- Moore’s Law is not the best measure of computing performance. Core’s law is alive. The number of cores per chip will double every 24 months.
- Best measure of computing power is becoming compute power per watt