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How Intel Manages 100,000 Servers
- barrkel 17y ago30,000 servers sounds like an awful lot for "office, IT and web operations". Estimating about 90,000 employees (and it's probably lower[1]) that's 3:1 users per server. [1] http://www.intc.com/intelAR2008/business/employees/index.html http://www.intc.com/intelAR2008/business/employees/index.htm...
- 1SockChuck 17y agoPerhaps a new commercial: "Our Server Requirements Aren't Like Your Server Requirements"
- nimrody 17y agoMost of these are SMP machines (and probably multicore chips) so you probably have >1 core per employee... Most of these are probably running engineering tools: simulations, verification, silicon back-end tools. Current chips require tons of compute power to develop, so this is not surprising [I do wonder how many of these are based on Itanium processors?]
- barrkel 17y ago70% of machines are for R&D support - the simulations, verification, silicon back-end etc. you speak of. I was talking about the other 30%.
- mallipeddi 17y agoWhy would you need so much hardware to do what Intel does? What kind of software would they be running on these clusters?
- wmf 17y agoSimulators and EDA tools are very CPU-intensive.