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Using Instrumentation To Drive Data Center Efficiency In The Cloud

Posted by David Jenkins Aug 31, 2009

I am consistently amazed by the stories I hear from customers and in industry publications about the power issues that data centers are facing these days. Given the increased compute demand, decreasing budgets and power & cooling resource constraints, data centers simply cannot continue to operate as they have in the past. These challenges are especially true for Cloud deployments, where the sheer scale of the installations magnifies any resource utilization inefficiencies – especially power – and reduces the TCO benefits promised. Data Center Managers need new levels of understanding and control of their power resources in order to allocate capacity to seamlessly meet the needs of their customers, and instrumentation is evolving to provide those new capabilities that are required.

At its core, instrumentation is all about sources of data and points on control, and can be at the individual component level, coordinated server level, aggregated group level or even integrated into the facility and building management system level. At IDF in SFO, you will see a wealth of demos and sessions that will highlight how OEMs and ISVs can use a wealth of instrumentation points - starting with Intel Xeon Processor 5500 features - to develop and deliver innovative management and power management capabilities that can be used to run a Cloud environment is a more efficient manner. If you are at IDF, stop by one of the following sessions to learn more about instrumentation.

ECTS0004 - Improving Data Center Efficiency With Intel® Xeon® Processor Based Instrumentation
PDCS002 - Cloud Power Management with Intel® Microarchitecture (Nehalem) Processor-based Platforms
Meet The Experts – informal session in the Server Zone during the Tuesday evening Technology Showcase hours
Server Zone in the Technology Showcase to see the power monitoring and capping demos, including Intel Intelligent Power Node Manager.

I will be staffing the Meet The Experts event – stop by with your questions and thoughts on instrumentation! See you at IDF Sept 22-24

Dave

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Fall Intel Developer Forum Server Technology Blogs – What Do You Want To Hear About?

Posted by David Jenkins Jul 31, 2009

54 days to Fall IDF in SFO! Perhaps I should be a bit less enthusiastic, as during the course of the next two months, I will be extremely busy working on courses, presentation, demos, web updates and new collateral pieces highlighting Intel’s contributions to server and data center instrumentation, data center efficiency and eco-technology. In addition to those responsibilities, I have taken on ownership of driving a technology blogging program at IDF, with server technology experts sharing their insights here on Server Room – an opportunity that I am very excited about, but I need your help.

My question to you today is – what would you like to see covered in the technology blogs from IDF? I am starting the process of recruiting “volunteers” to participate, and understanding what you want to see discussed will help me to get the right people to cover the topics that are compelling to you and hopefully facilitate an interesting dialog that will help you to better understand server technologies. Since its easy to self-recruit, you will definitely see a blog from me covering instrumentation, Intel Intelligent Power Node Manager and other related technology news @ IDF.

So what do you specifically want to see covered in the IDF blogs? I look forward to you inputs and hope to see you at IDF!

Dave

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Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Instrumentation Enables Power Capping

Posted by David Jenkins May 11, 2009

Instrumentation – sources of data and points of control – on processors, chipsets and subsystems are the foundation for innovative performance, manageability and energy efficiency advancements at the platform, rack and even data center level. The instrumentation delivered by Intel Xeon processor 5500 is the basis for enabling industry leading power capping solutions that help to squeeze the most out of every dollar spent and kilowatt consumed in the data center.

This brief animation provides a brief overview of power capping and a number of use cases. Are you using or considering using power capping? Share your thoughts and experiences about this emerging instrumentation based technology.

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