Intel wave and other weapon data center energy-saving challenges

It's energy-consuming issues are increasingly becoming one of the hottest topics in the industry, as we all know. According to statistics, the total power consumption of China's IT products was estimated at 30.05 trillion degrees in the whole year of 2007, equivalent to the total generation of the Three Gorges hydropower station. In IT products, the power of an ordinary computer is about 200 watts, while the server may be up to KW. International data companies predict that without changing the existing design patterns, the global computer will consume 75% more electricity by 2010. The growing energy crisis and the large emissions of greenhouse gases are straining our environment, and protecting green homes has become an imminent task.

    April 24, Intel and the China Electronics Association Energy-Saving Promotion Committee (CEESC) jointly organized a seminar on energy efficiency in Beijing.

Section Push Committee and the "Computer Industry Rescue Climate Action plan"

    section of the Secretary General Yuqian in the speech, it has two meanings of energy saving, one is how it industry to achieve energy saving, Second, how to use it technology in traditional industries to achieve energy saving. Considering that our country lacks the authoritative energy-saving standard of the third party, CEESC plans to survey the energy efficiency of China's electronic information products in 2008, and will organize a series of computer platform energy efficiency meeting to help the customers understand the meaning and method of it energy saving.

    It is understood that, as early as June 2007, Intel and Google initiated and joined together more than 25 companies and environmental agencies in the United States to launch the "Computer Industry Rescue Climate Action plan" (Climatesavers Computing Initiative,csci). In September, the China Electronics Society, Computer World Media Group and Intel (China) Co., Ltd. jointly launched the establishment of the China Electronics Society, including 13 units to participate in the energy-saving work of the Committee (CEESC), for the relevant state departments to develop energy-saving standards, Industry research and development of energy-saving technologies and solutions to provide support. In the spring of 2008, when the Intel Information Technology Summit (IDF), the two organizations signed a memorandum of cooperation, announced that both sides will promote the electronic information industry energy conservation and environmental protection, and actively cooperate to share relevant technology and information.

Troubleshoot problems from different levels

    Intel Corporation, vice president of Digital Enterprise Division and general Manager of Server Platform Division, said the data center is facing two major challenges: the increase in electricity costs, according to statistics , from 2000 to 2006 the power of the data center has doubled, the second is the low utilization rate, performance in the Cabinet space utilization shortage-Because the power is not, the 30–50% space in the cabinet is idle, the server utilization is insufficient-average utilization is less than 15%, the power efficiency is low--about 1/3 of the power is lost during the inefficient power transmission. To do this, Intel will propose countermeasures from different levels of processors, platforms, cabinets, and data centers.

1 Processor

    on the processor side, Intel no longer simply emphasizes performance, but rather emphasizes performance versus power balance, emphasizing performance per watt, while Intel's latest 45 NM processor is a proxy for energy efficiency.

    Kirk B. Skaugen for example, in order to respond to an application requirement of 5.1 million operations per second, in 2004, 6 cabinets and 126 servers were required, covering an area of 240 square feet, Power consumption up to 48-kilowatt, and today, if the use of the Intel 45 nm to strong processor technology, only need 1 cabinets, 17 blade server can be satisfied, and covers an area of only 40 square feet, power consumption only 6-kilowatt. The new technology can help businesses reduce their footprint by 83%, reduce their annual energy costs by 87%, and save 53,000 dollars a year by saving energy. The "Energy Efficient" features of the Intel processor in

are also vividly demonstrated in the first specpower-ssj2008 of the benchmark for server energy efficiency benchmarks. Of the 26 models participating in the review, the Intel architecture based products occupy the top 10. It is particularly noteworthy that the results of the domestic wave nf290d2 (2.5 GHz, Intel Xeon Processor L5420) are the best two-way platform per watt with 910 points (the number of business transactions per watt, the unit of performance-power ratios). In this regard, wave group technical director Hureyun, the wave energy-efficient server using the IFA energy-efficient architecture, in the intelligent fan, high efficiency power supply, negative pressure cooling duct design and so on a multiple innovation.