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Technology


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Capabilities of servers and their power consumption have increased overtime. Multiply the power servers consume by the number of servers in use

today and power consumption emerges as a significant expense for manycompanies. The main power consumers in a server are the processors andmemory.Server processors are capping and controlling their power usage, but theamount of memory used in a server is growing and with that growth, more

power is consumed by memory. In addition, today s power supplies arevery inefficient and waste power at the wall socket and when convertingAC power to DC. Also, when servers are in operation, the entire chassiswill heat up; cooling is required to keep the components at a safeoperating temperature, but cooling takes additional power.

The Problem Of Power

Consumption In Servers.


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R equire a SolutionElectricity used by servers has doubled between 2000 and 2005 due to theincrease in the number of servers installed and the required coolingequipment and infrastructure. Power use varies by server type, theconfiguration within each server, and the workload being run. All servercomponents generate heat as they function. An increase of the local

ambient temperature inside a server can cause reliability problems withthe circuitry. As data centres move towards increased server density, thepower and heat generated by servers will increase.On a basic server system today, server processors consume the mostpower, followed by memory, then disks or PCI slots, the motherboard, andlastly the fan and networking interconnects. The recent shift to multi-coreprocessors helps address energy consumption by the CPU and adds powermanagement features that throttle processor powerA Technology is Require to deal with this problem and among varioussolution the Most favorable solution would be SmoothStone Technology .


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W hat Is SmoothStone Technology?

Power consumption matters more than ever.Smooth-Stone will bring the low-powervirtues of mobile phone technology to serversand data centres.Its semiconductors and software will provide

a solution for companies where energyconsumption by servers has become aconstraining and expensive issue.


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IT has revolutionised our possibilities forproductivity, efficiency andcommunication but has environmentalconsequencesData centres for long have been powerhoggers.And IT power consumption andconsumption of IT products is increasing.A texas based technology known asSmoothStone Technology will be use toaddress this serious problem.

W hy Smooth Stone Technology

needed?


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A group of investors, including companiesfrom the United States, Europe and theUnited Arab Emirates, has formed in a bidto disrupt one of Intel s most lucrativefranchises.The companies have put $48 million intoSmooth-Stone, a start-up based in Austin,Tex.

Origin of Smooth Stone Technology


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H ow Smooth Stone Technology

works?Smooth-Stone has set to work with the A R M(32-bit ReducedInstruction Set Computer ) chips found in the most popularsmart phones to handle jobs typically done on servercomputers.. Servers do heavy work running business software andrequire serious horsepower.As it happens, chips based on Intel s architecture have suchhorsepower and tend to run faster than anything else on themarket. These chips churn away inside 90 percent of theservers sold every year, leaving 10 percent of the market forspecialized chips made to handle mainframe-like operations.


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Lower down the electricity bills,the teamleverages the mobile phone microprocessorsinside the high powered computer serversused in data centres.Monitoring and reporting.

Power Management and workloadConsolidation.Scheduling based on Cost,Temperature and

Energy Efficiency.

W hat SmoothStone Technology

can do?


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The headlines Smooth-Stone has already garnered, Start-upAims to Slay Chip Goliath , and, An atom bomb aimed atIntel , suggest the technology will be available soon andeffortlessly.But the reality is it might take a while. The company facesstiff competition and several daunting technologicalchallenges in its quest to build good server chips usingmobile phone processing cores.There are already companies developing such chips,including Marvell Technology and a company Googlerecently acquired, Agnilux, which could have products outsoon.

Stiff Competition


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Problems Concerning Smooth

StoneThe problem Smooth-Stone is trying to solve is serious, especially in thenew world of cloud computing, which is requiring more data centers. Thepowerful processors inside data center servers require a lot of electricityto run and give off a lot of heat. That heat leads to even more power usein data centers via the air conditioners and other cooling methods used to

keep them from overheating and shutting down.The most popular processors used inside mobile phones, and the onesSmooth-Stone and others are aiming to use in servers, come from Arm, acompany with a keen focus on low-energy processors for devices thatneed batteries.

But Arm's focus on mobile phones also means there are limitations thechips will have to overcome, mainly in software and calculating speeds.The software issue is the more serious of the two because many programsfor servers are written to run on x86-based processors and would have tobe rewritten for Arm's R ISC-based ( Reduced Instruction Set Computing)

chips. It's not a major challenge, but it would add cost and time to theeffort.


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Marvell plans to launch its first server chips with Arm cores later this year. And ithas put multiple Arm processing cores inside its server chips to better competeagainst those made by Intel, a strategy other companies could use.Marvell will put out a quad-core chip based on Arm's Cortex-A9 processors tocompete with Intel on speed."The server market, which is currently dominated by x86 processors, continues tobe plagued by concerns of growing power consumption. Marvell, by exploitingAR M's low-power technology, hopes to make inroads into the server territory withits new offering that promises a fivefold reduction in power consumption and anon-par performance compared with an x86 processor," .Smooth Stone technology will have a tough competition to withstand in themarket with different developments taking place in the various spheres .

Survival of SmoothStone Seems

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