# Data Centre Technology and Market Trends

- Institution: CERN
- Department: IT Technical Forum (ITTF)
- Taught by: Pawel SZOSTEK, Marco GUERRI, Alexandru GRIGORE, Eric BONFILLOU, Liviu VALSAN
- Year: 2015
- Language: English
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3011385)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

In this ITTF session we will provide an overview of data center technologies and market trends in the fields of server processors, memory architectures, server platforms, storage technology (both solid state and spinning media), Intel future roadmaps, Open Compute Project hardware and server-side networking.

We will begin with a peek into the evolution of processors over the last 40+ years and provide an outlook into future processor trends. The highlights of the most recent Intel server processor generation (Xeon E5-2600 v3, Haswell-EP) will be presented together with the specifics of the new generation of DDR memory technology employed. Alternative processor architectures from contenders like ARM Holdings (with their AArch64 architecture) and IBM (with their OpenPOWER initiative) will be discussed.

An overview of existing enterprise solid state technology will be given, showing the kind of performance provided by the currently available enterprise SSD drives and future directions for non volatile memory based storage devices.

We will continue with an overview of the enterprise spinning disk market. The techniques used by the hard drive manufacturers to satisfy the demand for ever growing capacities per spindle will be described. Finally, an analysis suggesting which type of drive(s) best fit our applications will be presented.

The presentation will also include Intel's plans for expansions in the computing hardware: new Skylake microarchitecture, Omni-Path interconnect, non-volatile main memory, Intel Transactional Extension and Rack-scale architecture. It will also cover broadly the next generations of Intel co-processors: Knights Landing and Knights Hill.

The Open Compute Project, OCP (http://www.opencompute.org), was launched by Facebook in 2011 with the objective of building efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost. After an initial evaluation of two OCP twin server enclosures in 2013, we decided to launch a tender for acquiring…

## Lectures

1. [Data Centre Technology and Market Trends](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3011385/59d590a2f1b2), 1 h 35 min (CERN's player)