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This Showcase was published on November 15, 2022.
Presenters
Delegate Panel
In this Tech Field Day Showcase, delegates Craig Rodgers, Ather Beg and Alastair Cooke showcase parts of the whitepaper – Digital Infrastructure at Datacenter Scale to present their takes on server architecture and the role of hardware. Hardware is the core of the server, and the newest generation of Intel hardware yields pure performance, but performance cannot be harnessed fully without a technology that liquifies resources and enables resource sharing.
Intel & CXL – The Future of Server Architecture
Despite CPUs gaining more cores than ever, there is a lingering bandwidth shortage which is nudging us in the direction of a new disaggregated server architecture – one that uses CXL. In this Tech Field Day Showcase presented to you by Intel, Solutions Architect and co-author of Digital Infrastructure at Datacenter Scale, Craig Rodgers showcases the whitepaper. In the Showcase, Rodgers digs deeper into the shifts that are currently ongoing in the industry, and talks about CXL as the server architecture of the future. Watch the video to learn how CXL is poised to bring it all together with a fully composable server design that will enable us to unlock the full potential of our memory devices at no cost to application performance.
Personnel: Craig Rodgers
The Perfect Configuration
The fastest processors do not necessarily guarantee the highest performance in a datacenter. In this Tech Field Day Showcase presented to you by Intel, Solutions Architect and co-author of Digital Infrastructure at Datacenter Scale, Ather Beg highlights a section of the whitepaper he wrote – The Perfect Configuration, where he debunks the hype around processors. Ather argues that a processor alone cannot deliver ultimate levels of performance without the support of other components. In fact, the secret to unlocking high levels of performance is getting the configuration right, and the perfect configuration is one in which all the components in the server are equally optimized.
Personnel: Ather Beg
Does Hardware Matter in the Cloud?
The narrative that hardware does not matter in the cloud is driven chiefly by the growing importance of software. In this Tech Field Day Showcase, presented to you by Intel, Alastair Cooke, cloud provider course teacher and co-author of Digital Infrastructure at Datacenter Scale zooms into this perception to provide an understanding of what created it in the first place and the truth of it. Asking what’s more important – the hardware or the software – is like the chicken or egg paradox. But the reality is, software that occupies the centerstage needs the hardware to exist. Without hardware, innovation at software level is not possible.
Personnel: Alastair Cooke