Intel joins bid to halve the cost of data centers

From InfoWorld: Intel is working with a group of Taiwanese companies and a government research center on a project that aims to slash the cost of a data center by nearly half.

The company is contributing chips, motherboards, and software to the project, as well as other engineering expertise, said Navin Shenoy, vice president and general manager of the Asia Pacific region for Intel, in an interview.

The aim is to build data centers inside 20-foot (6.1-meter) shipping containers using standardized parts to lower costs and common software to make the data center more energy efficient. Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) announced the program in June, and had said it would have prototypes available by the end of this year.

But it looks like the prototypes may be coming earlier than expected.

"I've seen a couple of them from the leading edge OEMs," said Shenoy. The term OEM (original equipment manufacturer) refers to IT hardware manufacturers such as Taiwan's Quanta Computer, Wistron and Inventec.

Shenoy said Intel is contributing data center manager software and node center manager software to the project.

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