M2DC-Modular Microserver DataCentre with heterogeneous hardware

Ariel Oleksiak (1) , Michal Kierzynka (1) , Wojciech Piatek (1) , Giovanni Agosta (2) , Alessandro Barenghi (3, 2) , Carlo Brandolese (2) , William Fornaciari (2) , Gerardo Pelosi (2) , Mariano Cecowski (4) , Robert Plestenjak (4) , Justin Cinkelj (4) , Mario Porrmann (5) , Jens Hagemeyer (5) , Rene Griessl (5) , Jan Lachmair (5) , Meysam Peykanu (5) , Lennart Tigges (5) , Micha Vor Dem Berge (6) , Wolfgang Christmann (6) , Stefan Krupop (6) , Alexandre Carbon (7) , Lok Cudennec (7) , Thierry Goubier (7) , Jean-Marc Philippe (7) , Sven Rosinger (8) , Daniel Schlitt (8) , Christian Pieper (8) , Chris Adeniyi-Jones (9) , Javier Setoain (9) , Luca Ceva , Udo Janssen

1 PSNC - Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
2 DEIB - Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria
3 POLIMI - Politecnico di Milano [Milan]
4 XLAB d.o.o.
5 CITEC - Cognitive Interaction Technology [Bielefeld]
6 Christmann Informationstechnik + Medien (GERMANY)
7 DACLE-LIST - Département d'Architectures, Conception et Logiciels Embarqués-LIST
8 OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology [Oldenburg]
9 ARM - ARM Ltd [Cambridge]

The Modular Microserver DataCentre (M2DC) project investigates, develops and demonstrates a modular, highly-efficient, cost-optimized server architecture composed of heterogeneous microserver computing resources. The resulting server architecture will be able to be tailored to meet requirements from a wide range of application domains. M2DC is built on three main pillars: a flexible server architecture that can be easily customised, maintained and updated; advanced management strategies and system efficiency enhancements (SEE); well-defined interfaces to the surrounding software data centre ecosystem. In this paper, we focus in particular on the thermal management strategies and on the initial benchmarking of the Aarch64 ARM architecture.

Keywords: Microservers; Heterogeneous architectures; Data Centres

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Engineering Sciences [physics]

Ariel Oleksiak, Michal Kierzynka, Wojciech Piatek, Giovanni Agosta, Alessandro Barenghi, et al.. M2DC-Modular Microserver DataCentre with heterogeneous hardware. Microprocessors and Microsystems: Embedded Hardware Design , 2017, 52, pp.117-130. ⟨10.1016/j.micpro.2017.05.019⟩. ⟨cea-01803827⟩