Energy Efficient Blade Server and Method for Reducing the Power Consumption of a Data Center Using the Energy Efficient Blade Server

摘要

An energy efficient blade server and a method for reducing the power consumption of data centers using said energy efficient blade server. The energy efficient blade server receives a process through a front-end processing unit and determines a specific processing resource tier from a plurality of processing resource tiers according to a green energy efficiency value, wherein the green energy efficiency value the most efficient processing resource tier for the process. The front-end processing tier notifies a power management control tier to power on the specific processing resource tier through a tier power control device, wherein the process is then transferred from the front-end processing tier to the specific processing resource tier. The green energy efficiency value is determined according to a number of parameters monitored by a plurality of monitoring components of the power management control tier.

主权项

1. An energy efficient blade server comprises:
a front-end processing tier; a power management control tier; a plurality of processing resource tiers; the front-end processing tier comprises a general purpose processor; the power management control tier comprises a main computing device and a tier power control device; each of the plurality of processing resource tiers comprises a processor unit and a dedicated network interface controller; the main computing device being electronically connected to the general purpose processor and the tier power control device; the processor unit of each of the plurality of processing resource tiers being electronically connected to the tier power control device and the general purpose processor; and the dedicated network interface controller being electronically connected to the processor unit for each of the plurality of processing resource tiers.