The race to construct knowledge centres to help AI and high-density computing necessities is on, and CyrusOne helps redefine scalable knowledge centre design with Intelliscale, its modular strategy to help larger workloads.
“Intelliscale was engineered with adaptability at its core”, CyrusOne mentioned when it launched its providing again in July, “constructing infrastructure that may evolve along with your altering wants with out ranging from scratch or going through pricey downtime.”
By way of rack energy density, AI workloads would require eight occasions the ability of regular cloud workloads, as much as 120 kW/rack, in contrast with 15W/rack, in accordance with Dell’Oro Group. With Intelliscale knowledge centres probably occupying only a quarter of the house of typical knowledge centres (relying on the appliance and desires), it’s designed for these excessive dense deployments and able to delivering 100-plus megawatts of energy, providing scalability, flexibility and reliability. Tom Kingham, Vice President of Engineering & Utilities, Europe at CyrusOne, believes knowledge centre designs should each work for immediately and be versatile sufficient to accommodate future calls for.
“We aren’t making an attempt to utterly rethink AI,” says Kingham. “What we’re making an attempt to do is get ourselves to that modular component the place we simply deploy extra of it relying on what the use case is for the shopper in these knowledge centres.”
With knowledge centre builds taking years, and GPU refreshes coming in months, the timelines typically don’t add up. “We needed to give you a means of with the ability to reply in a quick solution to buyer calls for altering, with out us essentially having to essentially change the spine of the gear that’s moving into,” notes Kingham. “So what you see from Intelliscale is that modular strategy to a knowledge centre.”
Kingham notes the ‘pleasure’ about liquid cooling for GPUs. Because the compute density is way larger for AI infrastructure, operational temperatures may be a lot greater. “That turns into fascinating as a result of we’d like much less cooling to have the ability to make that work; due to this fact we’d like much less vitality,” he says. “So there’s some actually good developments forward for the info centre {industry} to scale back the impression we’re having.”
“The demand is so vital that the general quantity of vitality we’ll use will develop, however hopefully we’re turning into rather more environment friendly with it as that progress occurs,” Kingham says.
Alongside vitality effectivity, Kingham says the {industry} is getting higher at giving again to the group. Native era schemes are instance; CyrusOne signed an industry-first Most popular Partnership settlement with E.ON in June which goals to supply energy and cooling to the info centre and warmth to the encompassing campus buildings on the identical time. “It’s not only for the info centre,” says Kingham. “It ought to be for everybody within the neighborhood.”
“What we’re seeing now by means of our growth processes, as we discover new websites and we need to develop in sure areas, we’re being rather more clear about the place our vitality goes to return from,” says Kingham.
“I take a look at a challenge now we have in Frankfurt in the meanwhile the place the info centre will present all the warmth to the enterprise park,” he provides. “I feel that’s the type of instance the place, as an {industry}, we actually need to do the fitting factor. However when an information centre pops up the place there isn’t that scenario the place you possibly can offload your warmth to an area community, as a result of that community doesn’t exist, it’s a tough one.
“So we’re now on the lookout for these areas the place we could be a significantly better group member, if you’ll, the place we are able to present warmth to different native shoppers.”
Tom Kingham is talking at Knowledge Centre Expo Europe, in Amsterdam on September 24-25. Discover out extra about his talking session right here.
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