Private Cloud ROI Case Study with Intel and Univa
[ Source: Univa UD ]
September 2009-
How can Private Cloud technology benefit you? Find out in this new case study and ROI analysis which describes the benefits Corus Automotive, a major European steelmaker, has received due to an Intel and Univa infrastructure transformation.
Corus is using Intel Nehalem processors and Univa UD software used to create a private cloud to run its technical computing applications and streamline its data management and storage processes. These applications allow an elite team of ....
Energy Logic: Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption by Creating Savings that Cascade Across Systems
[ Source: Emerson Network Power ]
August 2009-
This paper introduces the concept of the “cascade effect” and describes how it can be used to cut data center energy costs by 50% or more. Emerson Network Power came up with this vendor-neutral roadmap for optimizing data center efficiency, called Energy Logic, by applying the top ten energy-saving opportunities to a 5,000-square-foot data center model based on real-world technologies and operating parameters.
Outlining this sequential approach to reducing energy costs, this paper includes ....
Calculating and Prioritizing Your Data Center IT Efficiency Actions
[ Source: Emerson Network Power ]
July 2009-
The lack of a true data center efficiency metric is challenging to IT and data center managers as they try to justify much needed IT investments to management. To help quantify data center efficiency, Emerson Network Power introduces in this paper CUPS, or Compute Units per Second. Similar to miles-per-gallon metric in the automobile industry, CUPS is meant to represent the “performance” of the data center.
Using the Energy Logic analysis and the CUPS-based ....
Growing Data Sets Slowing Down Your Apps? Experience 100x Faster Application Performance
[ Source: RNA networks ]
July 2009-
Enterprise data centers are struggling with large data sets with real implications for application performance, cost and competitiveness. While memory capacity has grown, distributed data center architectures require that many servers have access to the same data sets, often TBs in size and too large to fit in memory of any one server.
RNAcache provides a solution directly targeted at the root cause of this bottleneck; memory limitations. Because RNAcache dynamically scales to store ....
Green Data Center: The IT Industry's Energy Efficiency Initiative
[ Source: AMD ]
April 2008-
Faced with surging demand for data processing and storage, the IT industry is focusing on making data centers more energy-efficient.
A Roadmap For Reducing Energy Consumption In The Data Center
[ Source: Green Grid/Emerson Network Power ]
April 2008-
Top concern of data center managers include energy efficiency, as well as power, cooling, and space constraints and availability. Emerson Network Power features a presentation on energy concerns in the data center.
Technologies for HP ProLiant 300-Series Servers
[ Source: Hewlett-Packard ]
January 2008-
This paper published by HP describes the major technologies implemented in the latest generation of HP ProLiant 300- series servers. These technologies include dual-core and quad-core processors, Double Data Rate-2 (DDR2) and fully-buffered memory modules, the latest serial Input/Output (I/O) technologies, power management technologies, multifunction network interface cards, mechanical design innovation, and Integrated Lights Out 2 management.
Performance Characterization of HP ProLiant BL480c With Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors (3.16 Ghz/2x6 MB) in a 64-Bit HP Server Based Computing Environment
[ Source: Hewlett-Packard ]
January 2008-
Power to handle the most challenging applications is delivered by Quad or Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors, up to 48 GB of 667 MHz DDR2 memory, four Gigabit Ethernet server adapters and a choice of four hot plug Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives. The new Quad-Core Xeon 5400 series processors with 12MB Level 2 (L2) cache and 1333 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) are designed for maximum performance. This paper ....
Performance Characterization of HP ProLiant BL680c G5 With Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors (2.40 Ghz/2x4 MB) in a 64-Bit HP Server Based Computing Environment
[ Source: Hewlett-Packard ]
January 2008-
Designed to keep pace with strenuous computing demands, the high performance HP ProLiant BL680c G5, features impressive expansion capabilities and enterprise class availability, along with industry leading management tool that makes this blade easy to deploy and maintain. This paper published by HP describes a performance characterization performed utilizing the HP 64-bit test harness that incorporates a Microsoft Office 2003 workload. Test results cannot be compared directly with the results of tests performed using the ....
Evaluating the Potential of Future On-Chip Clock Distribution Using Optical Interconnects
[ Source: Hewlett-Packard ]
January 2008-
Designing clock distribution networks is a big challenge for future microprocessors due to increasing frequency, power, transistor counts and process variations. As technology scales, implementing conventional clock distribution networks that meet low power and skew requirements is becoming more difficult. On the other hand, optical interconnects are being proposed as an alternative to electrical interconnects due to their speed-of-light transmission, high bandwidth and low power dissipation. The white paper looks at the clock distribution trends ....