Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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Google’s Mission
To organize the world's information and make it
UNIVERSALLY accessible and useful.
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Warehouse Scale Computers
Luiz André Barroso, Urs Hölzle, “The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines”,
http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00193ED1V01Y200905CAC006?prevSearch=allfield%253A%2528Urs%2529&searchHistoryKey=
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Warehouse-size Computer
Warehouse-scale Computer
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Why not just call it a data center?
Data center Warehouse-scale computer
! Co-located machines that share ! Computing system designed to
security, environmental run massive Internet services
requirements
Servers
• CPUs
• DRAM
• Disks
Clusters
Racks
• 40-80 servers
• Ethernet switch
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Energy Efficient Data Centers
Industry Avg PUE: ~ 1.9*
Environmental Protection Agency, ENERGY STAR Program, 2007, “Report to Congress on Server and Data Energy Efficiency,”
http://www.energystar.gov/ia/partners/prod_development/downloads/EPA_Datacenter_Report_Congress_Final1.pdf Google Confidential and Proprietary 8
Efficient Data Centres
• Cooling is 30-70% of
overhead
• Evaporative cooling enables
“free cooling” (no chiller
usage)
• But fresh water is valuable
• Use recycled water instead...
Fiber-rich
Today
Available BW
Distance Between Compute Elements
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Google Confidential and Proprietary
Power vs Port Speed
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Google Confidential and Proprietary
Thank You!
http://www.google.com/corporate/
datacenter/efficient-computing/index.html