Multicore processors integrate multiple processor cores into a single chip to boost performance while minimizing heat output. As server density and performance demands increase, multicore technology provides an alternative to increasing clock speeds alone. IT organizations should consider software optimization, balancing performance across platform elements, and the scalability benefits of multicore processors to enhance enterprise systems while addressing power and cooling challenges.
This white paper discusses Sun Microsystems' new virtualized network express module and blade server solution. It addresses ongoing customer needs to reduce datacenter costs related to power, cooling, management complexity and staffing. The solution aims to improve efficiency and lower costs by streamlining management, reducing cabling, improving energy efficiency, and providing a single-pane-of-glass management view.
Dell Active System 800 Converged Infrastructure solution: User collaboration ...Principled Technologies
When searching for a converged infrastructure solution to quickly deploy to your data center, choosing a complete solution that requires no additional testing and configuration before deployment can be a great asset to your organization. An easy-to-deploy, highly scalable solution that has the ability to meet your workload requirements and provides administrators with flexibility is vital to running an efficient data center.
In our tests, the Dell Active System 800 provided ample performance to drive the needs of a 1,000-person organization using multiple collaboration applications and order-processing applications, even using only two Dell PowerEdge M620 blade servers in the configuration. Adding more I/O intensive workloads to the configuration and placing power caps on the servers did not negatively affect performance; the Dell Active System 800 was able to perform well for all end-users while providing flexibility for administrators.
Learn about IBM Power 710 Express server an economical, high performance, reliable, and energy efficient server. For more information on Power Systems , visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
Visit http://on.fb.me/LT4gdu to 'Like' the official Facebook page of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 - Enterprise for Mid Market Organizations DatasheetMicrosoft Private Cloud
SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise helps organizations reduce costs, improve productivity and optimize business processes through high performance, scalability, availability and advanced security features. It allows for server consolidation, virtualization, data compression and centralized management to lower hardware and storage costs. The platform also provides powerful business intelligence and data warehousing capabilities to help organizations gain insights from data and make better business decisions.
This document summarizes the findings of an IDC study on large enterprises that deployed IBM Power Systems servers to consolidate workloads. The study found that these organizations achieved significant cost savings and efficiency gains through consolidation. Key results included reducing system downtime by 60-94%, lowering IT staff maintenance time by up to 50%, and saving over $235,000 annually per 1,000 users on average. Consolidating workloads onto these highly virtualized servers also reduced power and cooling costs substantially. The document concludes that these benefits will be amplified by new Power7-based servers that provide faster performance and greater energy efficiency.
This white paper from Oracle discusses how organizations can lower their IT costs using Oracle Database 11g Release 2. It claims that Oracle Database 11g Release 2 allows organizations to reduce hardware costs by a factor of 5x through server consolidation. It also says Oracle Database 11g Release 2 improves performance by 10x, reduces storage costs by 10x, maximizes availability and security, doubles DBA and developer productivity, simplifies software portfolios, and achieves business value in a quarter of the time. The white paper explains how Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Real Application Clusters enable consolidation onto low-cost commodity server grids to reduce hardware costs.
The IBM Power 755 server is a high performance 4U rack-mounted compute node optimized for running computationally intensive workloads in parallel clusters. It features 32 POWER7 processor cores running at 3.3 GHz, supports up to 256 GB of memory, and can be clustered with over 2,000 cores using InfiniBand interconnects. The Power 755 is designed for workloads like modeling that benefit from parallel processing and energy efficient with features to help reduce costs and greenhouse gas emissions.
This white paper discusses Sun Microsystems' new virtualized network express module and blade server solution. It addresses ongoing customer needs to reduce datacenter costs related to power, cooling, management complexity and staffing. The solution aims to improve efficiency and lower costs by streamlining management, reducing cabling, improving energy efficiency, and providing a single-pane-of-glass management view.
Dell Active System 800 Converged Infrastructure solution: User collaboration ...Principled Technologies
When searching for a converged infrastructure solution to quickly deploy to your data center, choosing a complete solution that requires no additional testing and configuration before deployment can be a great asset to your organization. An easy-to-deploy, highly scalable solution that has the ability to meet your workload requirements and provides administrators with flexibility is vital to running an efficient data center.
In our tests, the Dell Active System 800 provided ample performance to drive the needs of a 1,000-person organization using multiple collaboration applications and order-processing applications, even using only two Dell PowerEdge M620 blade servers in the configuration. Adding more I/O intensive workloads to the configuration and placing power caps on the servers did not negatively affect performance; the Dell Active System 800 was able to perform well for all end-users while providing flexibility for administrators.
Learn about IBM Power 710 Express server an economical, high performance, reliable, and energy efficient server. For more information on Power Systems , visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
Visit http://on.fb.me/LT4gdu to 'Like' the official Facebook page of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 - Enterprise for Mid Market Organizations DatasheetMicrosoft Private Cloud
SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise helps organizations reduce costs, improve productivity and optimize business processes through high performance, scalability, availability and advanced security features. It allows for server consolidation, virtualization, data compression and centralized management to lower hardware and storage costs. The platform also provides powerful business intelligence and data warehousing capabilities to help organizations gain insights from data and make better business decisions.
This document summarizes the findings of an IDC study on large enterprises that deployed IBM Power Systems servers to consolidate workloads. The study found that these organizations achieved significant cost savings and efficiency gains through consolidation. Key results included reducing system downtime by 60-94%, lowering IT staff maintenance time by up to 50%, and saving over $235,000 annually per 1,000 users on average. Consolidating workloads onto these highly virtualized servers also reduced power and cooling costs substantially. The document concludes that these benefits will be amplified by new Power7-based servers that provide faster performance and greater energy efficiency.
This white paper from Oracle discusses how organizations can lower their IT costs using Oracle Database 11g Release 2. It claims that Oracle Database 11g Release 2 allows organizations to reduce hardware costs by a factor of 5x through server consolidation. It also says Oracle Database 11g Release 2 improves performance by 10x, reduces storage costs by 10x, maximizes availability and security, doubles DBA and developer productivity, simplifies software portfolios, and achieves business value in a quarter of the time. The white paper explains how Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Real Application Clusters enable consolidation onto low-cost commodity server grids to reduce hardware costs.
The IBM Power 755 server is a high performance 4U rack-mounted compute node optimized for running computationally intensive workloads in parallel clusters. It features 32 POWER7 processor cores running at 3.3 GHz, supports up to 256 GB of memory, and can be clustered with over 2,000 cores using InfiniBand interconnects. The Power 755 is designed for workloads like modeling that benefit from parallel processing and energy efficient with features to help reduce costs and greenhouse gas emissions.
The document discusses how smarter computing through the integration of big data, optimized systems, and cloud computing can unlock new insights and value. It summarizes that 1) big data streams and traditional data integrated in optimized systems can deliver new insights, 2) cloud computing will play a fundamental role by masking complexity and enabling rapid deployment, and 3) IBM's integrated and workload-optimized systems can accelerate the path to smarter computing by tightly integrating appliances and flexible systems.
IBM Power Systems servers—the smart choice for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
deployments
Delivering new services faster via joint
IBM and Oracle testing, planning, and
support
Offering secure, reliable performance
with on-demand expansion, ideal
for today’s dynamic JD Edwards
EnterpriseOne environments
Leveraging industry-leading PowerVM
virtualization to economically
consolidate workloads
Boosting performance with POWER7+
processors
Delivering outstanding availability and
higher quality compute services with
PowerHA and AIX
How windows server 2008 r2 helps optimize it and save you moneyupendhra90
This document discusses how Windows Server 2008 R2 can help optimize IT and save costs. It focuses on three key areas:
1) Reducing costs through streamlined management, server consolidation, lower power consumption, and reduced WAN bandwidth.
2) Improving IT service levels with increased reliability features in areas like Failover Clustering and Active Directory.
3) Enabling new business scenarios by providing resources and tools for IT administrators to quickly respond to changing business needs.
Early customers report significant cost savings through higher server consolidation rates, lower IT staff hours spent on tasks, and energy savings of up to 18% compared to prior versions of Windows Server.
Harness Enterprise Data with SQL Server 2008 R2 and New Intel Xeon ProcessorsReadWriteEnterprise
The document discusses how SQL Server 2008 R2 and new Intel Xeon processors can help enterprises harness large volumes of data. It describes innovations in SQL Server 2008 R2 like self-service BI and complex event processing. It also outlines developments in Intel Xeon processors 7500 and 5600 series that improve scalability, performance, virtualization, and reliability. The combination of these software and hardware advances provides massive processing power, flexibility, and lower costs to help organizations address challenges of rapidly growing and complex enterprise data.
HCLT Whitepaper: Thermal Design and Management of ServersHCL Technologies
In today’s digital age of rapid knowledge development, an enormous amount of information is being generated every day across the world. This data needs to be stored, processed and secured so the user can access this data quickly. Servers play a major role in this type of data-intensive business applications. The advancements in
hardware, software and miniaturization technologies, along with the information evolution, has led to a vast increase in servers power
densities and computing power. To improve the reliability and to enhance performance, thermal management needs to be performed
in servers by removing the heat generated by the devices. This paper focuses on the role of thermal management of servers in data centers and green data centers. It also investigates the challenges
faced in thermal design and management of servers. The emerging cooling technologies which have evolved over the years in the server
industry will be discussed. Case studies on thermal management of servers will be presented
The document summarizes the IBM Power 730 Express server, highlighting its high performance, density, energy efficiency, and ability to run multiple workloads in a virtualized environment. It details the server's POWER7+ processor technology, memory capacity, I/O capabilities, and virtualization and reliability features. The Power 730 Express is a two-socket rack server supporting up to 16 cores, large memory capacity, and various operating systems.
The document discusses optimizing Oracle and Siebel applications on the Sun UltraSPARC T1 platform. It describes how Siebel's multi-threaded architecture is well-suited to the T1 processor's ability to run multiple threads in parallel. It provides examples of consolidating Siebel environments and optimizing performance through Solaris, Siebel, and Oracle database tuning. Metrics show Siebel performing well with low CPU utilization on T1 systems.
Sun sparc enterprise t2 systems customer presentationxKinAnx
The document discusses new UltraSPARC T2 processor-based servers from Sun Microsystems that provide leading performance, efficiency, and virtualization capabilities. Key points include:
- The Sun Blade T6320 server module and Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 servers are powered by the new UltraSPARC T2 multicore/multithreaded processor and can deliver up to 2,500 virtual systems per rack.
- They offer significant energy savings and cost reductions compared to replacing older IBM servers, with a potential savings of over $1 million over 3 years through higher consolidation ratios.
- The systems provide high performance virtualization through logical domains (LDoms) at no additional cost, integrated
The way the world works is changing. Consumers want instant answers and ubiquitous access from smart devices. They are having billions of conversations on global social networks. Businesses selling goods and services to these consumers are utilizing newly available information and instantaneous communication capabilities to more effectively market.
This document discusses Intel's Intelligent Power Node Manager solution for managing power usage in data centers. It notes that power and cooling costs are a major challenge as data needs increase exponentially. The Power Node Manager allows data center managers to set a power budget or "cap" for each server to better utilize existing power capacity and increase compute density. It provides real-time power monitoring and enables power capping to maintain performance within the set limit or adjust if the limit is exceeded. This allows data centers to squeeze more performance from their existing power infrastructure.
This document discusses leveraging solid state drives (SSDs) in tiered storage environments to improve application performance and reduce costs compared to using only hard disk drives (HDDs). It describes how SSDs can deliver substantially better I/O performance than HDDs. Experiments showed significant performance improvements and substantial reduction in the number of drives needed when using SSDs, resulting in reduced costs from smaller footprint, lower energy usage, and less hardware to maintain. The document provides guidance on implementing tiered storage with SSDs and HDDs to optimize performance and costs.
Sun sparc enterprise t5140 and t5240 servers customer presentationxKinAnx
This document discusses Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers. It begins with an agenda that will discuss today's IT challenges, how chip multithreading is making a difference for businesses, and how Sun's new CoolThreads servers can help scale more with less. It then discusses how the network is growing exponentially and the business challenges of growing demand and shrinking resources. It promotes Sun's Eco leadership and how their CoolThreads technology can help virtualize infrastructure, scale more with less to capture new revenue, and build eco-efficient virtualized data centers. Benchmarks show CoolThreads servers providing up to 5x the performance of x86 systems in the same footprint at lower costs.
An Architecture for Modular Data Centersguest640c7d
This document proposes a new architecture for modular data centers using standard shipping containers. The key points are:
1) Shipping containers can house thousands of commodity server components and be delivered as fully operational modules, eliminating the need for on-site assembly and maintenance.
2) These container modules reduce costs associated with component shipping, installation, power/cooling infrastructure, and hardware administration over the lifetime of the systems.
3) The modular approach provides flexibility to rapidly deploy new capacity globally and to later relocate data centers cost-effectively if needed.
An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is the core business application for every company, covering a multitude of different business functions. This applies to both landscapes for large enterprise companies as well as for midsize companies with constrained IT resources. For midsize companies in particular, finding a platform that offers good performance...
The document discusses Dell's PowerEdge server portfolio and solutions for enterprise applications. It provides an overview of next-generation PowerEdge technologies including more processing power from Intel Xeon processors, high-capacity low-power memory, scalable efficient local storage, simplified intelligent management, and energy efficiency innovations. It also describes PowerEdge platforms for traditional and converged infrastructure and Dell's comprehensive enterprise solutions.
The document summarizes IBM's Intelligent Cluster integrated high performance computing solutions. It highlights that the solutions are built on innovative IBM System x, BladeCenter, and iDataPlex servers, offering high performance, energy and space efficiency, and easy deployment. Key features include leading-edge technology, high performance for applications like industrial design and manufacturing, reduced power and cooling costs, and a single point of contact for support.
Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems accelerate MCAE workflow by speeding data access between processors and stored data through its Hybrid Storage Pool technology. This closes the performance gap between fast processors and slower storage by caching frequently used data on fast SSDs. It also provides shared access to all stored data across the cluster through a common file system. This allows real-time data sharing between computational nodes and easier collaboration.
Time critical multitasking for multicoreijesajournal
This paper presents the research work on multicore microcontrollers using parallel, and time critical
programming for the embedded systems. Due to the high complexity and limitations, it is very hard to work
on the application development phase on such architectures. The experimental results mentioned in the
paper are based on xCORE multicore microcontroller form XMOS®. The paper also imitates multi-tasking
and parallel programming for the same platform. The tasks assigned to multiple cores are executed
simultaneously, which saves the time and energy. The relative study for multicore processor and multicore
controller concludes that micro architecture based controller having multiple cores illustrates better
performance in time critical multi-tasking environment. The research work mentioned here not only
illustrates the functionality of multicore microcontroller, but also express the novel technique of
programming, profiling and optimization on such platforms in real time environments.
The document discusses multiprocessor and multicore systems. It defines multiprocessors as systems with two or more CPUs sharing full access to common RAM. It describes different hardware architectures for multiprocessors like bus-based, UMA, and NUMA systems. It discusses cache coherence protocols and issues like false sharing. It also covers scheduling and synchronization challenges in multiprocessor systems like load balancing, task assignment, and avoiding priority inversions.
Multi-core programming talk for weekly biostat seminarUSC
Gary K. Chen presented on using multi-core algorithms to speed up optimization. The seminar covered introduction to high-performance computing, concepts, an example of training a hidden Markov model, an example of regularized logistic regression, and closing remarks.
The document discusses how smarter computing through the integration of big data, optimized systems, and cloud computing can unlock new insights and value. It summarizes that 1) big data streams and traditional data integrated in optimized systems can deliver new insights, 2) cloud computing will play a fundamental role by masking complexity and enabling rapid deployment, and 3) IBM's integrated and workload-optimized systems can accelerate the path to smarter computing by tightly integrating appliances and flexible systems.
IBM Power Systems servers—the smart choice for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
deployments
Delivering new services faster via joint
IBM and Oracle testing, planning, and
support
Offering secure, reliable performance
with on-demand expansion, ideal
for today’s dynamic JD Edwards
EnterpriseOne environments
Leveraging industry-leading PowerVM
virtualization to economically
consolidate workloads
Boosting performance with POWER7+
processors
Delivering outstanding availability and
higher quality compute services with
PowerHA and AIX
How windows server 2008 r2 helps optimize it and save you moneyupendhra90
This document discusses how Windows Server 2008 R2 can help optimize IT and save costs. It focuses on three key areas:
1) Reducing costs through streamlined management, server consolidation, lower power consumption, and reduced WAN bandwidth.
2) Improving IT service levels with increased reliability features in areas like Failover Clustering and Active Directory.
3) Enabling new business scenarios by providing resources and tools for IT administrators to quickly respond to changing business needs.
Early customers report significant cost savings through higher server consolidation rates, lower IT staff hours spent on tasks, and energy savings of up to 18% compared to prior versions of Windows Server.
Harness Enterprise Data with SQL Server 2008 R2 and New Intel Xeon ProcessorsReadWriteEnterprise
The document discusses how SQL Server 2008 R2 and new Intel Xeon processors can help enterprises harness large volumes of data. It describes innovations in SQL Server 2008 R2 like self-service BI and complex event processing. It also outlines developments in Intel Xeon processors 7500 and 5600 series that improve scalability, performance, virtualization, and reliability. The combination of these software and hardware advances provides massive processing power, flexibility, and lower costs to help organizations address challenges of rapidly growing and complex enterprise data.
HCLT Whitepaper: Thermal Design and Management of ServersHCL Technologies
In today’s digital age of rapid knowledge development, an enormous amount of information is being generated every day across the world. This data needs to be stored, processed and secured so the user can access this data quickly. Servers play a major role in this type of data-intensive business applications. The advancements in
hardware, software and miniaturization technologies, along with the information evolution, has led to a vast increase in servers power
densities and computing power. To improve the reliability and to enhance performance, thermal management needs to be performed
in servers by removing the heat generated by the devices. This paper focuses on the role of thermal management of servers in data centers and green data centers. It also investigates the challenges
faced in thermal design and management of servers. The emerging cooling technologies which have evolved over the years in the server
industry will be discussed. Case studies on thermal management of servers will be presented
The document summarizes the IBM Power 730 Express server, highlighting its high performance, density, energy efficiency, and ability to run multiple workloads in a virtualized environment. It details the server's POWER7+ processor technology, memory capacity, I/O capabilities, and virtualization and reliability features. The Power 730 Express is a two-socket rack server supporting up to 16 cores, large memory capacity, and various operating systems.
The document discusses optimizing Oracle and Siebel applications on the Sun UltraSPARC T1 platform. It describes how Siebel's multi-threaded architecture is well-suited to the T1 processor's ability to run multiple threads in parallel. It provides examples of consolidating Siebel environments and optimizing performance through Solaris, Siebel, and Oracle database tuning. Metrics show Siebel performing well with low CPU utilization on T1 systems.
Sun sparc enterprise t2 systems customer presentationxKinAnx
The document discusses new UltraSPARC T2 processor-based servers from Sun Microsystems that provide leading performance, efficiency, and virtualization capabilities. Key points include:
- The Sun Blade T6320 server module and Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 servers are powered by the new UltraSPARC T2 multicore/multithreaded processor and can deliver up to 2,500 virtual systems per rack.
- They offer significant energy savings and cost reductions compared to replacing older IBM servers, with a potential savings of over $1 million over 3 years through higher consolidation ratios.
- The systems provide high performance virtualization through logical domains (LDoms) at no additional cost, integrated
The way the world works is changing. Consumers want instant answers and ubiquitous access from smart devices. They are having billions of conversations on global social networks. Businesses selling goods and services to these consumers are utilizing newly available information and instantaneous communication capabilities to more effectively market.
This document discusses Intel's Intelligent Power Node Manager solution for managing power usage in data centers. It notes that power and cooling costs are a major challenge as data needs increase exponentially. The Power Node Manager allows data center managers to set a power budget or "cap" for each server to better utilize existing power capacity and increase compute density. It provides real-time power monitoring and enables power capping to maintain performance within the set limit or adjust if the limit is exceeded. This allows data centers to squeeze more performance from their existing power infrastructure.
This document discusses leveraging solid state drives (SSDs) in tiered storage environments to improve application performance and reduce costs compared to using only hard disk drives (HDDs). It describes how SSDs can deliver substantially better I/O performance than HDDs. Experiments showed significant performance improvements and substantial reduction in the number of drives needed when using SSDs, resulting in reduced costs from smaller footprint, lower energy usage, and less hardware to maintain. The document provides guidance on implementing tiered storage with SSDs and HDDs to optimize performance and costs.
Sun sparc enterprise t5140 and t5240 servers customer presentationxKinAnx
This document discusses Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers. It begins with an agenda that will discuss today's IT challenges, how chip multithreading is making a difference for businesses, and how Sun's new CoolThreads servers can help scale more with less. It then discusses how the network is growing exponentially and the business challenges of growing demand and shrinking resources. It promotes Sun's Eco leadership and how their CoolThreads technology can help virtualize infrastructure, scale more with less to capture new revenue, and build eco-efficient virtualized data centers. Benchmarks show CoolThreads servers providing up to 5x the performance of x86 systems in the same footprint at lower costs.
An Architecture for Modular Data Centersguest640c7d
This document proposes a new architecture for modular data centers using standard shipping containers. The key points are:
1) Shipping containers can house thousands of commodity server components and be delivered as fully operational modules, eliminating the need for on-site assembly and maintenance.
2) These container modules reduce costs associated with component shipping, installation, power/cooling infrastructure, and hardware administration over the lifetime of the systems.
3) The modular approach provides flexibility to rapidly deploy new capacity globally and to later relocate data centers cost-effectively if needed.
An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is the core business application for every company, covering a multitude of different business functions. This applies to both landscapes for large enterprise companies as well as for midsize companies with constrained IT resources. For midsize companies in particular, finding a platform that offers good performance...
The document discusses Dell's PowerEdge server portfolio and solutions for enterprise applications. It provides an overview of next-generation PowerEdge technologies including more processing power from Intel Xeon processors, high-capacity low-power memory, scalable efficient local storage, simplified intelligent management, and energy efficiency innovations. It also describes PowerEdge platforms for traditional and converged infrastructure and Dell's comprehensive enterprise solutions.
The document summarizes IBM's Intelligent Cluster integrated high performance computing solutions. It highlights that the solutions are built on innovative IBM System x, BladeCenter, and iDataPlex servers, offering high performance, energy and space efficiency, and easy deployment. Key features include leading-edge technology, high performance for applications like industrial design and manufacturing, reduced power and cooling costs, and a single point of contact for support.
Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems accelerate MCAE workflow by speeding data access between processors and stored data through its Hybrid Storage Pool technology. This closes the performance gap between fast processors and slower storage by caching frequently used data on fast SSDs. It also provides shared access to all stored data across the cluster through a common file system. This allows real-time data sharing between computational nodes and easier collaboration.
Time critical multitasking for multicoreijesajournal
This paper presents the research work on multicore microcontrollers using parallel, and time critical
programming for the embedded systems. Due to the high complexity and limitations, it is very hard to work
on the application development phase on such architectures. The experimental results mentioned in the
paper are based on xCORE multicore microcontroller form XMOS®. The paper also imitates multi-tasking
and parallel programming for the same platform. The tasks assigned to multiple cores are executed
simultaneously, which saves the time and energy. The relative study for multicore processor and multicore
controller concludes that micro architecture based controller having multiple cores illustrates better
performance in time critical multi-tasking environment. The research work mentioned here not only
illustrates the functionality of multicore microcontroller, but also express the novel technique of
programming, profiling and optimization on such platforms in real time environments.
The document discusses multiprocessor and multicore systems. It defines multiprocessors as systems with two or more CPUs sharing full access to common RAM. It describes different hardware architectures for multiprocessors like bus-based, UMA, and NUMA systems. It discusses cache coherence protocols and issues like false sharing. It also covers scheduling and synchronization challenges in multiprocessor systems like load balancing, task assignment, and avoiding priority inversions.
Multi-core programming talk for weekly biostat seminarUSC
Gary K. Chen presented on using multi-core algorithms to speed up optimization. The seminar covered introduction to high-performance computing, concepts, an example of training a hidden Markov model, an example of regularized logistic regression, and closing remarks.
Multi-core processors have multiple processing units (cores) on a single chip to improve performance over single-core processors. As clock speeds became limited, chip designers added multiple cores to allow simultaneous execution of instructions. This achieves performance gains without increasing heat and power consumption. However, multi-core processors introduce new challenges around cache coherence and ensuring software is optimized for parallel execution across multiple cores. Future multi-core designs may include heterogeneous cores specialized for different tasks to further improve efficiency.
This chapter discusses multicore computers and hardware performance issues with increasing processor complexity. It provides examples of multicore organizations from Intel, AMD, and ARM. The key points are:
1) Multicore architectures address diminishing returns from increasing clock speeds by utilizing parallelism across multiple processor cores on a chip.
2) Examples include the dual-core Intel Core Duo with shared L2 cache, and the quad-core Intel Core i7 with simultaneous multi-threading and shared L3 cache.
3) Effective use of multicore requires applications that can exploit parallelism; overhead from communication and synchronization limits performance gains from additional cores.
- The document discusses various techniques for reducing power consumption in FPGAs, including power analysis tools, power-driven synthesis and fitting, clock gating, using dedicated resources like DSP blocks and RAM blocks efficiently, and newer FPGA technologies that enable programmable power and lower voltages.
- Key technologies for reducing power mentioned include moving to smaller process nodes, programmable power technology which allows tiles to operate in high-speed or low-power mode, lower core voltages, more granular clock gating, and dynamic on-chip termination.
- Power analysis involves estimating power using tools like Early Power Estimator and PowerPlay Power Analyzer which require accurate toggle rate data and power models.
The document discusses the 8087 Numerical Data Processor (NDP). It introduces the 8087 NDP as a coprocessor used in parallel with the main processor for mathematical computations. It then describes some limitations of general processors in performing math calculations and how the 8087 addresses these limitations through its specialized instruction set. The document goes on to explain the 8087's data types, internal architecture, instruction formats, instruction types, and concludes that the 8087 is commonly used in business applications like calculating grocery bills.
This document discusses multivector and SIMD computers. It covers vector processing principles including vector instruction types like vector-vector, vector-scalar, and vector-memory instructions. It also discusses compound vector operations, vector loops and chaining. Finally, it discusses SIMD computer implementation models like distributed and shared memory, and SIMD instruction types.
The Thesis Toolbox: Research Design for Academic WritingKim Nicholas
Slides from a workshop presented by Prof. Kim Nicholas of Lund University on research design and writing. The workshop was for 45 master's students from many departments and disciplines, hosted by Lund University Social Innovation Centre.
Focuses on the practical aspects of the heart of research: asking and answering questions.
Includes a worksheet for developing your own research design, illustrated by an example from a master's thesis from the LUMES program that was turned into a publication (Clark and Nicholas, 2013, Landscape Ecology).
1) Design and Implementation of Multicore Processors
2) Coherence and Consistency
3) Power and Temperature
4) Interconnects
5) Multicore Caches
6) Security
7) Real world examples
This document discusses vector processing and multiprocessor principles. It explains that vector processing performs operations on vectors to gain speedups of 10-20x over scalar processing. Multiprocessor systems use two or more CPUs for advantages like reduced costs, increased reliability and throughput. They can implement techniques like multitasking, multithreading and multiprogramming to execute multiple tasks simultaneously.
This document discusses Intel's multi-core processor organization. It describes how a multi-core processor combines two or more processor cores onto a single silicon chip. It identifies key variables in multi-core organization as the number of cores, levels of cache memory, and amount of shared cache. It provides examples of Intel's Core i7, Core Duo, AMD Opteron, and ARM11 MP Core multi-core processors and highlights their core configurations and cache architectures.
The document discusses the history and development of microprocessors from the Intel 4004 in 1971 to Intel dual core processors in 2006. It provides details on key processors such as the 8008, 8080, 8086, 8088, 80386, 80486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium IV, and dual core/Core 2 processors. It describes features such as clock speed, number of transistors, cache memory, and architecture of various processors over time.
This document discusses multiprocessor and multicomputer systems. It defines a multiprocessor system as having more than one processor that shares common memory, while a multicomputer has more than one processor each with local memory. Processors may be closely coupled on a shared bus or loosely coupled distributed on a network. The document also covers Flynn's taxonomy of computer architectures and examples of single instruction single data stream (SISD), single instruction multiple data stream (SIMD), multiple instruction single data stream (MISD), and multiple instruction multiple data stream (MIMD) systems.
Multi-core processor and Multi-channel memory architectureUmair Amjad
Content of presentation:
Multi-core processors
Multi-channel memory architecture
Comparison between single and multi channel memory
Conclusion
References
Multicore processor by Ankit Raj and Akash PrajapatiAnkit Raj
A multi-core processor is a single computing component with two or more independent processing units called cores. This development arose in response to the limitations of increasing clock speeds in single-core processors. By incorporating multiple cores that can execute multiple tasks simultaneously, multi-core processors provide greater performance with less heat and power consumption than single-core processors. Programming for multi-core requires spreading workloads across cores using threads or processes to take advantage of the parallel processing capabilities.
(Slides) Task scheduling algorithm for multicore processor system for minimiz...Naoki Shibata
Shohei Gotoda, Naoki Shibata and Minoru Ito : "Task scheduling algorithm for multicore processor system for minimizing recovery time in case of single node fault," Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2012), pp.260-267, DOI:10.1109/CCGrid.2012.23, May 15, 2012.
In this paper, we propose a task scheduling al-gorithm for a multicore processor system which reduces the
recovery time in case of a single fail-stop failure of a multicore
processor. Many of the recently developed processors have
multiple cores on a single die, so that one failure of a computing
node results in failure of many processors. In the case of a failure
of a multicore processor, all tasks which have been executed
on the failed multicore processor have to be recovered at once.
The proposed algorithm is based on an existing checkpointing
technique, and we assume that the state is saved when nodes
send results to the next node. If a series of computations that
depends on former results is executed on a single die, we need
to execute all parts of the series of computations again in
the case of failure of the processor. The proposed scheduling
algorithm tries not to concentrate tasks to processors on a die.
We designed our algorithm as a parallel algorithm that achieves
O(n) speedup where n is the number of processors. We evaluated
our method using simulations and experiments with four PCs.
We compared our method with existing scheduling method, and
in the simulation, the execution time including recovery time in
the case of a node failure is reduced by up to 50% while the
overhead in the case of no failure was a few percent in typical
scenarios.
This white paper discusses Sun Microsystems' new virtualized network express module and blade server solution. It addresses ongoing customer needs to reduce datacenter costs related to power, cooling, management complexity and staffing. The solution aims to improve efficiency and lower costs by streamlining management, reducing cabling, improving energy efficiency, and providing a single-pane-of-glass management view.
Organizations are facing increasing demands to process data and run mixed workloads across on-premise, cloud, and edge environments. Dell PowerEdge servers provide scalable platforms to optimize infrastructure and support these diverse workloads. PowerEdge servers enable workloads to run efficiently on-premise or in hybrid cloud environments, and provide high performance, security, flexibility and remote management. This allows IT organizations to seamlessly scale infrastructure as needs change.
This document discusses how businesses can transform their data centers into highly optimized private clouds using Intel Xeon processors. It outlines key challenges in virtualized data centers like explosive data growth and I/O bottlenecks. It then describes how the Intel Xeon processor E5 family addresses these challenges through features like improved storage solutions, increased I/O performance, stronger security and reduced energy costs. The processors provide a foundation for flexible, efficient private clouds that simplify application deployments and provide scalability.
AMD Putting Server Virtualization to WorkJames Price
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nterprises have been using virtualization technology on mainframes and RISC-based systems
for years to enable better utilization of hardware resources. As x86 servers have become a mainstay
in the enterprise, more companies are exploring virtualization with these servers to enable more productive, flexible, and scalable datacenters while reducing costs and boosting data availability. Computing technologies from AMD are providing the foundation for today’s—and tomorrow’s—enterprise virtualization solutions.
Demanding modern business environments require accurate infrastructure planning and deployment to support growth. Virtualization and VDI extract the most value from servers and storage by driving insights and workforce productivity. Dell EMC PowerEdge 4-socket servers and newly introduced PowerStore storage deliver boosted business and worker productivity through unique capabilities.
This document discusses IBM Power Systems cloud solutions for enabling customers to move mission-critical workloads to the cloud. It highlights how Power Systems solutions can improve performance and scalability, provide enterprise quality of service for applications, and automate management and optimization of resources. The document also describes how Power Systems is optimized for cloud environments through features like virtualization, security, scalability, and reliability. It discusses IBM's cloud foundation and entry cloud solutions that are built on Power Systems to help customers transform their data centers and IT infrastructure.
Effective power management is quickly becoming a major concern for data centers of all sizes. Specialized power management software is now available to help meet these needs. We tested two of these power management tools, Dell OpenManage Power Center and JouleX Energy Manager for Data Centers.
Both Dell OpenManage Power Center 2.0 and JouleX Energy Manager address some of the most common critical power tasks for your data center servers. JouleX Energy Manager is a product that includes additional features, but you must pay upfront acquisition costs and incur recurring software maintenance costs for potentially less-common features that just a subset of IT departments may implement. In contrast, Dell OpenManage Power Center, when used in conjunction with iDRAC Enterprise, comes at a very compelling price point – $0.00. This translates to a great value and an immediate return on investment.
Learn how Cloud is enabled for fast implementation of new workloads, secure application, available with modular and economically efficient design. For more information visit, http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
Optimized Systems: Matching technologies for business success.Karl Roche
Tom Rosamilia, General Manager, Power and z Systems, IBM Corporation outlines the way business can optimize it's systems to enhance performance, reduce cost per workload and drive innovation. Presented at the Smarter Computing Executive Summit, 25th May 2011.
The document compares three methods for consolidating SQL Server databases: 1) multiple databases on a single SQL Server instance, 2) a single database on multiple SQL Server instances, and 3) hypervisor-based virtualization. It finds that consolidating multiple databases onto a single instance has the lowest direct costs but reduces security and manageability. Using multiple instances improves security but has higher resource needs. Hypervisor-based virtualization maintains security while enabling features like high availability, but has higher licensing costs. The document aims to help decide which approach best balances these technical and business factors for a given environment.
Intel's Data Center & Connected Systems Group and Diane Bryant shares the latest news on the latest Intel Xeon E5v2 family of processors and technologies like Intel Network Builders to enable the re-architecture of the Data Center.
Modular blade server architectures address many challenges facing modern data centers by consolidating computing components into smaller, modular form factors that share resources to lower costs and complexity. Blades can satisfy computing needs for servers, desktops, networking and storage. They provide world-class solutions by delivering high performance, reliability, efficiency and scalability without disruption. Proper planning is required, but blade servers are highly efficient platforms for consolidating distributed servers into a common data center through their small size and ability to maximize resource utilization through virtualization.
Learn how the IBM i delivers a highly scalable and virus resistant architecture with a stable database and middleware foundation for efficiently deploying business processing applications. For more information on Power systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
Oracle Database 10g provides functionality to enable grid computing by virtualizing resources, automatically provisioning resources based on policies, and pooling resources. It allows databases to leverage hardware innovations like blades and Infiniband networks. It also simplifies installation, provides high availability features like RAC, and allows compute resources to be dynamically provisioned to meet changing business needs through features like Resonance and the Scheduler.
UCS is Cisco's unified computing system that represents a radical shift in data center computing. The book provides 50% reference material on server architectures and 50% specific information on UCS. Data centers face challenges around high costs of real estate, power usage, and cooling. Server virtualization can help address these challenges by consolidating multiple low-usage servers onto single physical servers to improve power efficiency and reduce real estate and cooling needs.
Virtualization has become mainstream, with over 50% of server workloads now running on virtual machines. This has driven demand for servers with larger memory capacities that can support higher VM densities. While virtualization helped address issues like server sprawl and underutilization, the need for more memory per VM is now a key limitation for increasing consolidation. New servers with massive memory capacity are aiming to maximize the number of VMs per physical server and lower costs per application.
This IDC white paper highlights how IBM eX5 systems with MAX5 memory technology play a significant role in increasing the value of memory dense servers.
The Cost Of Retaining Aging It InfrastructureJosh Castellano
The document summarizes a white paper about the rising costs of maintaining aging IT infrastructure and the benefits of upgrading to newer servers. It finds that maintenance costs rise significantly for servers older than 3-4 years as failure rates increase. Upgrading to HP ProLiant Gen8 servers can provide significant cost savings from reduced maintenance and support costs compared to continuing to operate aging servers. The new servers address many causes of downtime through automated management capabilities that help reduce IT workload and costs.
Organization now trying to make themselves much more operational with easy-to-interoperate data.
Data is most important part of any organization.
Data is backbone of any report and reports are the baseline on which all the vital management decisions are taken.
Data coexist in different maybe heterogeneous data sources.