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SUMMARY:IC Talk: Building the warehouse scale computer
DTSTART:20180125T143000
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DESCRIPTION:By : John Wilkes - Google\n\nAbstract :\nImagine some product 
 team inside Google wants 100\,000 CPU cores + RAM + flash + accelerators +
  disk in a couple of months. We need to decide where to put them\, when\; 
 whether to deploy new machines\, or re-purpose/reconfigure old ones\; ensu
 re we have enough power\, cooling\, networking\, physical racks\, data cen
 ters and (over longer a time-frame) wind power\; cope with variances in de
 livery times from supply logistics hiccups\; do multi-year cost-optimal pl
 acement+decisions in the face of literally thousands of different machine 
 configurations\; keep track of parts\; schedule repairs\, upgrades\, and i
 nstallations\; and generally make all this happen behind the scenes at min
 imum cost. \n \nAnd then after breakfast\, we get to dynamically allocat
 e resources (on the small-minutes timescale) to the product groups that ne
 ed them most urgently\, accurately reflecting the cost (opex/capex) of all
  the machines and infrastructure we just deployed\, and monitoring and con
 trolling the datacenter power and cooling systems to achieve minimum overh
 eads - even as we replace all of these on the fly.\n \nThis talk will hig
 hlight some of the exciting problems we're working on inside Google to ens
 ure we can supply the needs of an organization that is experiencing (liter
 ally) exponential growth in computing capacity.\n\nBio :\nJohn Wilkes has 
 been at Google since 2008\, where he is working on automation for building
  warehouse scale computers. Before that\, he spent a long time at HP Labs\
 , becoming an HP and ACM Fellow in 2002.  He is interested in far too man
 y aspects of distributed systems\, but a recurring theme has been technolo
 gies that allow systems to manage themselves. In his spare time he continu
 es\, stubbornly\, trying to learn how to blow glass.   \n\nMore informat
 ion\n 
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