Hardware Podcasts

Ep. 46 | Microsoft VP Marcus Fontoura on Architecting Azure, the "World's Computer"

Moore's Lobby · 24 May 2022 · 44m · Episode 6

What this episode covers

Marcus Fontoura, Microsoft VP and Technical Fellow for Azure Compute, explains how Microsoft is architecting the cloud as a 'world's computer' through deep hardware-software co-design. He details the shift to software-defined data centers, where machine learning predicts workload behavior to optimize power and cooling, enabling techniques like selective CPU overclocking. Fontoura highlights the success of liquid immersion cooling and the critical role of edge-cloud integration in achieving sustainability and democratizing high-performance computing.

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large enterprises

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Companies
Microsoft, IBM Research, Yahoo, Google
Products
Azure, Apple II, HoloLens, Space Invaders, Pac-Man

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