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30,000 servers sounds like an awful lot for "office, IT and web operations". Estimating about 90,000 employees (and it's probably lower[1]) that's 3:1 users per server.

[1] http://www.intc.com/intelAR2008/business/employees/index.htm...



Most of these are SMP machines (and probably multicore chips) so you probably have >1 core per employee... Most of these are probably running engineering tools: simulations, verification, silicon back-end tools.

Current chips require tons of compute power to develop, so this is not surprising [I do wonder how many of these are based on Itanium processors?]


70% of machines are for R&D support - the simulations, verification, silicon back-end etc. you speak of.

I was talking about the other 30%.


Perhaps a new commercial: "Our Server Requirements Aren't Like Your Server Requirements"




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