There was a lot of talk about disaggregating server architecture at the rack level at OCP Summit.

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"Intel and Facebook are collaborating on a new disaggregated, rack-scale server architecture that enables independent upgrading of compute, network and storage subsystems that will define the future of mega-datacenter designs for the next decade, " said Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer during his keynote address at Open Computer Summit in Santa Clara, Calif.

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According to NVIDIA it took years of research, the creation of a server farm, and an insanely deep and analytical understanding of every combination of hardware and architecture possible in the average home.

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For hardware, HP engineered flexible standards-based interfaces into their server cartridge architecture so that nearly any kind of accelerator or processor developer can make a cartridge.

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The game already uses the server-side architecture for a wide range of game processes, and moving all that processing power to the PC would be no simple hotfix.

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The planned architecture will give enterprise-level companies the capability of connecting wirelessly to a server and to applications anywhere in the world.

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He credited non-proprietary architecture, with its high rate of innovation and low cost, with helping break open the server market, once dominated by proprietary vendors such as Sun Microsystems Inc.

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However, since the launch of its Bulldozer architecture, AMD has seen a steady increase in demand for its high-end server processors.

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Even Microsoft is getting into the game with its Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) that enables SQL Server customers evolve their SQL databases to Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architecture to take advantage of commodity hardware.

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