For its first datacenter in Prineville, Oregon, Facebook set out to significantly improve its power efficiency, cost, reliability, serviceability and environmental footprint. To this end, a holistic approach was used to redesign many dimensions of the datacenter and servers. This white paper1 focuses on the Facebook server design, combining aspects of power, motherboard, thermal and mechanical design.
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