FPGAs in Data Centers

Data Processing on FPGAs

Computer architectures are quickly changing toward heterogeneous many-core systems. Such a trend opens up interesting opportunities but also raises immense challenges since the efficient use of heterogeneous many-core systems is not a trivial problem. In this paper, we explore how to program data processing operators on top of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). FPGAs are very versatile in ...

Analysis of Environmental Data in Data Centers

Optimization of data center performance for reduction in power and cooling costs is crucial to the growth of IT services both in enterprise and consumer sector. Significant work has been conducted in the past to understand the thermodynamic variables and parameters that influence the environmental conditions of the rooms vis-a-vis the computer room air conditioning (CRAC) units, racks and serve...

Particle concentrations in data centers

Cooling buildings with large airflow rates of outside air when temperatures are favorable is an established energy-saving measure. In data centers, this strategy is not widely used, owing to concerns that it would cause increased indoor levels of particles of outdoor origin, which could damage electronic equipment. However, environmental conditions typical of data centers and the associated pot...

Power Management in Data Centers

U.S. data center energy consumption is expected to double every 5 years, as shown in Fig. 1, at a huge cost both financially and to the environment. Microsoft itself launched two new mega-data centers last year, in Dublin and in Chicago. Sadly, much of the power consumed by these data centers is wasted. As documented in a recent Google study, [2], servers are only busy 20-30% of the time on ave...

Energy-Efficient Data Centers