[Crib-list] 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)

[Shirley Entzminger]

 		  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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