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A fact of life is that the need for server and storage capacity just keeps growing, recession or not. If yours is a data centre (or cloud) in which raw compute power resides, you may shudder at your energy bills – or perhaps just fear that you may hit the power supply limits for your facility.

Any system solution that counters this in a sizable way should be welcomed. Hardware vendors, knowing this, have worked hard on improving energy efficiency – and labelling it ‘green’.

Enter CloudRack C2, developed and manufactured by Rackable Systems in the US (more of whom in a moment). This 46U high cabinet can carry a server density up to 1,280 x86 cores (AMD Opterons now and ready for energy efficient Intel Xeon Nehalems when available) – pretty lean. The company claims the C2 achieves 99% energy efficiency – so green (for which read operating cost savings).

This article talks about Rackable’s CloudRack C2 which sounds like a great platform for virtualization or hpc as we commoditize the physical server. I love the servers lacking fans (that should reduce failures and improve efficiency), as well as AC support and ability to operate at high temperatures.

If we could operate the data center (and the servers/infrastructure) at 35% Celcius, we could substantially reduce the power and operating costs of the data center which has to be a good thing for the end user community. There might be a premium in the support cost, but the energy savings should more than cover that, couple this with a hardware cycle of two/three years instead of four/five and you could reduce your operating costs and effectively ‘fix’ your running costs. I’m off to read up more.

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