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A new data centre cluster created by Intel Labs and Carnagie Mellon could hold the key to reducing power consumption in such facilities, it has been claimed.
According to researchers at the firms, the reduction in power consumption would not result in a loss of performance or capacity.
The cluster, which has been named the Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes (Wimpy), is made up of embedded processors found in netbooks and flash memory.
Led by David Andersen, Carnegie Mellon University assistant professor of computer science, and Michael Kaminsky, senior research scientist at Intel Labs Pittsburgh, the project was unveiled at the 22nd Association for Computing Machinery Symposium on Operating Systems Principles.
The researchers wrote in their paper: "Unfortunately, small-object random-access workloads are particularly ill served by conventional disk-based or memory-based clusters."
Intel Labs is already researching multi-core server architectures that could improve performance, increase efficiency and make terabyte computing a standard technology for businesses.
Last Updated: 19/10/2009 18:00
Intel claims data centre power consumption can be reduced - Networking Industry News - Article Discussion
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