MTL - Internet 2010-Chapter 387 Moore's Law

"Boss, WeChat has already notified you."

Wen Xuwei was sitting in front of the computer at the moment, he nodded slightly after hearing the report of his subordinate, and then ordered him to go down to work.

Recently, Wen Xuwei did not work in the Science and Technology Park, but led a team to work in the Guangnan Data Center. It didn't take long, it lasted about two weeks.

Wen Xuwei likes to stay in this computer room, and the processing efficiency is much faster. But Song Wenhui had made it clear to him a while ago that no matter how big the problem was on the computer room site, he would not recommend Wen Xuwei to go to the computer room again. Although the company has a large turnover of personnel, the new employees recruited one after another can basically meet the daily maintenance requirements.

And just recently, the subsidiary that operates the Guangnan data center has also been opened, and the staff of routine security, administrative finance, and on-site operation and maintenance have all started to work.

Of course, the working conditions of the Guangnan data center are not very good. The main body of the first phase has been completed, but the second phase will not be completed until at least mid-June, and the office area of ​​the data center will not be completed until September. Most of the current employees can only barely squeeze in the office area of ​​the first phase. The sound of exhaust air and heat dissipation in the top computer room is not small, and the noise of the second phase construction is even louder.

Wen Xuwei thought about it for a while, this Mengguyun is a grinding place after all. It's no wonder that the resigned employees can't bear it.

And when he thought about how stressful he was crying in the toilet in the computer room earlier, he couldn't help but feel that time passed quickly.

If it weren't for the gradual improvement of the cloud computing system of the entire Dream Valley Cloud, to be honest, he couldn't bear it.

Of course, Mengguyun's success came at a high price to Wen Xuwei. Not to mention more than a year, I lost hundreds of pounds. If Mengguyun can't be successful in the future, I might still be able to take a weight loss class to make money.

At this time, it was nine o'clock, and Wen Xuwei got up and went to the computer room upstairs. In fact, most of the first floor area is also the computer room area, but now the office building has not been completed, and employees can only squeeze on the first floor, so the computer room area on the first floor is temporarily vacant.

After walking upstairs, many employees were making adjustments to the servers on the rack, and a few were connecting to new machines.

Now, almost every batch of machines in the Guangnan data center will be put into production immediately after commissioning, and the entire machine has always been running at full capacity. And how fast the machine can be accelerated depends on the company's decision to allocate how much money to buy new machines.

Wen Xuwei walked, looking at the vacant racks. In this empty space, upstream suppliers will produce two to three more batches of machines, and it is estimated that the first phase of Guangnan will be completely full. According to Song Wenhui's delivery time, which is probably when the second phase is completed, the timing is accurate, and there is basically no chance for people to rest. Of course, Wen Xuwei shouldn't come here often after that. After all, the staff is neat, and when he comes, he is also paddling.

Wen Xuwei walked to the control room, where there were also employees on duty, and the dense screen displayed a large number of graphs. Of course, it is said to be on duty, but it is not practical to see the state of thousands of machines with the naked eye. The monitoring relies on the automatic monitoring and automatic operation and maintenance of the main control system. In fact, there are not many people who need to do it manually.

"Wen Gong!"

As soon as Wen Xuwei entered the door, the employees greeted him warmly. He nodded, found a place to sit down, and called up something on one of the computers to check.

Not surprisingly, before the completion of the second phase of the Guangnan data center, the Qingdao data center will also break ground. Time is tight, but with the construction experience of Guangnan data center, Qingdao data center has saved a lot of time in the early operation. After all, the special team that originally operated the Guangnan data center project had accumulated some experience.

After the Guangnan data center is opened, the construction of the Qingdao data center will start, and the cash pressure of the entire Menggu Cloud will be less.

In fact, according to the pricing of the services provided by Menggu Cloud, it really has to be calculated with the hardware cost, and the profit margin is quite huge profits. But when a data center is in operation, the inner story is a lot more complicated.

The construction cost of the first and second phases of the Guangnan data center is as high as 200 million yuan, and after that, the investment in additional machinery and equipment in Menggu Cloud will reach 200 million to 300 million yuan. In a superficial way, that is the revenue of cloud computing business - (electricity, network cost, personnel cost). This number can cover the initial construction and machine costs, and the entire data center will officially enter the profitable stage.

According to Song Wenhui's estimation, this will not be realized until at least the beginning of 2014. Because it will take time for the second phase to be put into production, and the additional machines in the second phase will cost 200 to 300 million yuan. But if it is said that after this time point, the profit that Guangnan alone can contribute is quite considerable.

Wen Xuwei also said this to Song Wenhui, but he didn't expect Song Wenhui to pour some cold water on it.

The problem is simple, nothing more than the replacement of hardware.

Most people are aware of Moore's Law in the chip field, which states that the number of integrated circuits on a chip doubles every 18 months. As an IT product, servers are naturally affected by chip or other hardware upgrades.

A very simple truth, the hardware performance is doubled, but the power consumption is the same, and the difference in the benefit-cost ratio comes out. For example, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com a new machine is virtualized and can provide 50 minimum basic cloud packages, but the old machine can only virtualize 25, and the power consumption of the two machines is still the same. . This is equivalent to the same electricity cost, but due to hardware upgrades and other reasons, the new machine can provide greater computing performance.

The life cycle of a server, for a cloud service provider like Menggu Cloud, it must run for as long as possible, because once the hardware costs are recovered, the remaining time is as much as the operating cost is paid, and it generates as much as possible. profit.

However, if the data center area is limited and the enterprises in Dream Valley also need greater computing performance, then it is inevitable for Dream Valley to continuously purchase new machines.

If Mengguyun is currently expanding at such a speed, there is no need to worry about it. But the sooner the data center is built, the hardware will be upgraded in just a few years. It is certain that the investment is large, after all, a random hit is calculated in billions. Like the Guangnan data center, Song Wenhui also said that after a few years, it will definitely cost more money for hardware, but how to upgrade it depends on the actual hardware and the market at that time.

Wen Xuwei heard Song Wenhui mention a few words, but just after hearing this, the situation inside is not something he can grasp. But think about it, there is nothing in the world that can be done once and for all, and there are still companies that will go bankrupt. Technology must go up, and so must the management idea.

And these, it must be thrown to Song Wenhui for a headache.

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