Intel Corporation Presents at Live CTO Roundtable, Dec-16-2020 10:00 AM - SEHK:4335

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**- Shesha Krishnapura, a Fellow and IT CTO at Intel, is responsible for advancing Intel data centers for energy and rack space efficiency, HPC, and optimized platforms for enterprise computing.

• He has been instrumental in driving the entire EDA (Electronic Design Automation) industry from RISC/proprietary UNIX to x86 Linux, significantly reducing costs and improving performance.

• Intel's data centers have 17 sites with 56 modules, 85 megawatts of IT load, over 316,035 servers, 490 petabytes of raw storage, and 621,000 network ports.

• Intel's data centers operate at a PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) of 1.06, with each rack consuming 43 kilowatts and being 20 inches wide and 60U tall.

• The majority of Intel's server capacity (94%) is used for electronic design automation workloads, with the remaining for traditional IT, manufacturing, and other tasks.

• Shesha emphasizes the importance of understanding workloads and their specific requirements to optimize performance, cost, and reliability.

• Cost is a crucial factor in deciding between on-premises and cloud solutions. For workloads with 50% or higher utilization, on-premises is generally cheaper.

• Persistent memory and NVMe technologies offer significant benefits, particularly in reducing latency and increasing memory capacity.

• The adoption of new technologies must be balanced with the need for reliability, scalability, and economic efficiency in hyperscale data centers.**