Computer Studies Bldg. Room 209
The performance, cost, and reliability of modern servers and data centers
are dictated in large part by the effective management of limited power and
thermal budgets. Building energy-efficient systems often entails solving
problems at multiple system levels, e.g., circuits, architecture, system
software, and applications. This talk will present a variety research
projects underway at IBM Research - Austin. These projects include: (i)
energy management mechanisms that actively manage the power consumed by
individual components within a server (e.g., processors, memory, fans, and
power supplies), (ii) low-power high-performance storage servers that
exploit flash and energy-aware caching/replication policies to reduce
storage power, (iii) next generation scalable and energy-efficient data
center networks, and (iv) integrated IT and facilities energy management.
The talk also will introduce a set of design principles for building more
energy-efficient systems that IBM researchers have developed based on the
insights from a decade-long focus on energy efficiency and identify
remaining technical challenges that must be addressed to substantially
improve energy-efficiency of future servers and data centers.
BIO: John Carter leads the Power Aware Systems research group at the IBM Research
- Austin. Dr. Carter and his team are developing an array of technologies
designed to dramatically reduce server and data center energy consumption as
part of IBM's Smart Planet initiative. Prior to joining IBM Research, Dr.
Carter was the Associate Director of the University of Utah's School of
Computing, where he led research projects in the areas of multiprocessor
computer architecture, distributed systems, and memory system design (e.g.,
Impulse and Khazana).