Intel Tying Server Chips to Fabric for Cloud Computing
September 10, 2012
Grazed from PCWorld. Author: Agam Shah.
Intel on Monday said it is developing high-performance server chips that in the future will serve up faster results from cloud services or data-intensive applications like analytics, all while cutting electricity bills in data centers.
The chip maker will integrate a converged fabric controller inside future server chips, which will make server communication faster while helping data centers operate at peak efficiency, said Raj Hazra, vice president of the Intel Architecture Group. Fabric virtualizes I/O and ties together storage and networking in data centers, and an integrated controller will provide a wider pipe to scale performance across distributed computing environments…
The integrated fabric controller will appear in the company’s Xeon server chips in a few years, Hazra said. He declined to provide a specific date, but said the company has the manufacturing capability in place to bring the controller to the transistor layer…
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