SCHEDULE: NOV 12-18, 2011

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High-Efficiency Server Design

SESSION: Large Scale Systems

EVENT TYPE: Paper

TIME: 4:00PM - 4:30PM

AUTHOR(S):Eitan Frachtenberg, Ali Heydari, Harry Li, Amir Michael, Jacob Na, Avery Nisbet, Pierluigi Sarti

ROOM:TCC 303

ABSTRACT:
Large-scale datacenters consume megawatts in power and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to equip. Reducing the energy and cost footprint of servers can therefore have substantial impact. Web, Grid, and cloud servers in particular can be hard to optimize, since they are expected to operate under a wide range of workloads. For our upcoming datacenter, we set out to significantly improve its power efficiency, cost, reliability, serviceability, and environmental footprint. To this end, we redesigned many dimensions of the datacenter and servers in conjunction. This paper focuses on our new server design, combining aspects of power, motherboard, thermal, and mechanical design. We calculate and confirm experimentally that our custom-designed servers can reduce power consumption across the entire load spectrum while at the same time lower acquisition and maintenance costs. Importantly, our design does not decrease the servers' performance or portability, which would otherwise limit its applicability.

Chair/Author Details:

Eitan Frachtenberg - Facebook

Ali Heydari - Facebook

Harry Li - Facebook

Amir Michael - Facebook

Jacob Na - Facebook

Avery Nisbet - Facebook

Pierluigi Sarti - Facebook

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