Apr 6, 2009

Google has designed a new server for its data centers

Google has designed a new server for its data centers

The server design combines low cost with high energy efficiency. It is noteworthy that the search giant its servers with 12V batteries to protect against blackouts.

It was already known that Google itself the standpoint of cost servers for data centers are built, but apart from some general details about the infrastructure and the used operating system, Google gave details on the hardware jealously secret. Google now has a tip of the veil lifted, the company in particular shows how the energy.


Striking at the display design is the presence of a 12V battery. This short time, the server powered by loss of supply. Google has chosen this solution because of the costs. Normally data centers for a reliable supply of energy assisted by large, centralized ups and which act as supply stopped. According to Google, it is cheaper to each server to be equipped with a battery. The advantage of this solution is that the cost increases linearly with the number of servers. "There is no wasted capacity-ups," says Ben Jai, server designer at Google.

The efficiency playing a role in the Google solution. Thus, large ups'en by maximum efficiency reaching 92 to 95 percent, while the server placed batteries an efficiency gain of more than 99.9 percent. Also, the diet of the Google server only 12V, the conversion to 5V and 3.3 V will take place on the motherboard. This is the sign or 1 to 2 dollars more expensive, but decrease the cost of food. The motherboard of the server showed that Google was built by Gigabyte, has eight memory slots and can accommodate up to two processors. The whole thing is caught in a 2U high enclosure. Google uses both Intel and AMD processors in its data centers and uses the battery design in his network.

The company also said that since 2005 all data centers using shipping containers used. These containers are each equipped with 1160 servers and have a total capacity of 250kW.

Source : techarena.in

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