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19-09-2018
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Microserver Datacenter delivered at EnTranCe

Submitter: René Kaptijn
Description: On 30 August we successfully delivered, installed and tested our Microserver Datacenter at the EnTranCe center of the Hanzehogeschool in Groningen. EnTranCe will perform energy efficiency measurements and student assignments on the datacenter.

The Microserver Datacenter was developed by IBM and ASTRON in the DOME project. It contains server class compute nodes based on a system on a chip (SoC) with SATA, networking, serial port and boot FLASH interfaces on the same chip. Microservers are densely packed clusters of low power servers running computationally light workloads between thousands of processor cores.

A fully populated 2U microserver datacenter housing contains 64 nodes. Each node contains one T4240 PowerPC processor with 12 cores, so a full housing contains 768 cores! Our datacenter is equipped with 8 nodes. The datacenter is water cooled and contains a network switch to route the traffic between the nodes and the outside world. It also contains an mSATA SSD card with one 240GB SSD for each processor.

This activitiy is performed as part of the project Valorisation Microserver. By a consortium of SMEs and Knowledge institutes located in the Northern part of the Netherlands, this project is investigating the commercial prospects of this new design approach for densely packed highly energy efficient Micro data centers.
Copyright: ASTRON
 
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