[Crib-list] TODAY: Speaker: MARC HAMILTON (Hewlett-Packard) -- Computational Research in Boston and Beyond Seminar -- Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 at 12:30 PM in Room 32-141 (Stata) (fwd)

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T O D A Y...


 		  COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON and BEYOND SEMINAR


DATE:		Friday, FEBRUARY 3, 2012
TIME:		12:30 PM
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 141  (Stata Center)

(Pizza and beverages will be provided at 12:15 PM.)


TITLE:		Project Moonshot, HP's Extreme Low-Energy Server Platform


SPEAKER:	MARC HAMILTON  (Hewlett-Packard)


ABSTRACT:

Project Moonshot paves the way to the future of extreme low-energy server 
technology to help you achieve energy, power and space savings you never 
imagined. Based on extreme low-energy server technology, the Project Moonshot 
infrastructure can enable you to share storage, networking, management, as 
well as power and cooling across thousands of servers. Unlike traditional 
infrastructure designs, Project Moonshot is designed to unlock the promise of 
extreme low-energy server technology by pooling resources in a 
highly-federated environment. The Redstone Server Development Platform 
(available in the first half of 2012) incorporates more than 2,800 servers in 
a single rack - reducing cabling, switching and use of peripheral devices to 
reduce complexity by up to 97 percent.

Project Moonshot addresses many extreme low-energy server technologies from 
CPUs to GPUs, Ethernet and InfiniBand networking, storage, and power and 
cooling. While ARM processors available today are still 32-bit, the recently 
announced ARM v8 architecture introduces a 64-bit instruction set which is 
expected to significantly expand ARM usage in servers. While ARM addresses 
performance/watt with a very low power socket (compared to traditional x86), 
GPUs provide an orthogonal performance/watt vector with a very high power 
socket footprint. Technologies such as Nvidia's Project Denver aim to marry 
ARM processors with GPUs and could significantly change the server GPU 
landscape as well. On the networking front, InfiniBand continues to lead the 
performance curve for applications requiring extreme low latency, but a host 
of new "merchant silicon" for 10G and 40G Ethernet switching are also 
entering this space and providing new alternatives for many HPC and other 
Hyperscale customers.

Hamilton will discuss how all of these technologies are impacting server 
designs over the coming years and paving the way for the future.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA


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