New photonic architecture promises to dramatically change next decade of disaggregated, rack-scale server designs
Thursday, January 17, 2013 - 07:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Intel Corporation announced a collaboration with Facebook to define the next generation of rack technologies used to power the world's largest data centers. As part of the collaboration, the companies also unveiled a mechanical prototype built by Quanta Computer that includes Intel's new, innovative photonic rack architecture to show the total cost, design and reliability improvement potential of a disaggregated rack environment.