June 3, 2015, Society for Information Display Symposium, San Jose, CA—Yuki Maeda from Sony described the efforts in developing a high output light source for 4k projectors. The intent is to provide an alternative to flat panel displays for in-house use. The emerging 4K market can be handled reasonably well for smaller screens on flat-panel…
April 29, 2014, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Joel Goergen from Cisco discussed the drives for increasing the data rates for next generation Ethernet systems. The ongoing trends have to be balanced with the constraints of physics and economics to be viable. System interconnect has moved from 20 Mbps in a 2kW chassis to 25…
November 27, 2012, Server Design Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Akhil Docca from Future Facilities presented concepts for using data from the servers to control the cooling for the systems. Some of these data are already used for monitoring and control, so this is mostly a redirection of data from other purposes to cooling. Current chips have…
November 27, 2012, Server Design Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Phil Hughes from Clustered Systems described the capabilities for cooling very high power density systems. The driver for changes in cooling technologies is the relative inefficiencies of air cooling. As data centers add more computers and GPUs to the mix of servers, the power per slot is…