November 27, 2012, Server Design Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Andy Walls from IBM talked about server-storage problems and how the many different forms of data are making the problems worse. The information explosion is overtaking the whole industry. We are generating over 2.5 exabytes a day and 90 percent of all data has been created in…
November 27, 2012, Server Design Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Austin Hipes from NEI talked about the transition to 380VDC in the data center. Based upon a Lawrence Berkeley study in ’08, the change will result in a 28 percent reduction in power compared with AC power. Data centers need more efficiency and a power source that…
November 27, 2012, Server Design Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Gary Smerdon from LSI described the data deluge and other drivers in creating an inflection point in the data center storage hierarchies. The increases in technologies and in data volume are driving advances in the data center that are also changing networks and communications. By the yeare…
November 27, 2012, Server Design Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Partha Ranganathan from HP presented The trends and opportunities for this next-generation data center are becoming well defined. The performance will increase from 100 to 1,000 times today’s levels to meet the growing demands for computation. Power will become one of the factors in the new metrics,…
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…
November 2012 – In an invited keynote at the Server Design Summit, industry icon Andy Bechtolsheim, now of Arista Networks, gave a presentation on the direction and challenges involved with next generation data center networks. The performance improvements for CPU has gone up 64x the pas 12 years, while network bandwidth and performance has only…