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Learn about a groundbreaking data center efficiency metric in this technical presentation from Microsoft engineers at the Open Compute Project. Explore how the Combined Performance Metric (CPM) offers a more comprehensive approach to measuring data center performance compared to traditional Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), particularly for AI workloads. Discover how CPM calculates efficiency by considering the total number of GPUs, floating point operations per second per GPU, and grid power consumption. Follow along as the speakers demonstrate CPM's practical application through benchmarking tests comparing different cooling scenarios for GPU servers, providing valuable insights for optimizing modern data center operations in the age of artificial intelligence.
