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What makes the project exemplary is that the cluster used to run the measurements and the monitoring
has been designed to use less energy than most data centers: GreenLight consists of an eco
eco-friendly Sun
Modular Datacenter container with 8 racks of servers. When fully populated, the servers will connect to 7
edge switches via 1 Gbps links and the edge switches will connect with 10 GigE uplinks to the Quadrics
TG201-XAXA switch, which maintains low latency and high bandwidth and ensures the end users quality of
service.The immediate advantage, as Tom DeFanti, GreenLight principal investigator, explains, is that
“GreenLight uses 10 Gbps over dedicated optical fiber links so end users move their clusters out of their
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faculty closets and into much greener configurations.”
10GE Link Aggregation: When
Quadrics TG201: Maximum Data Throughput, Minimum Latency and complete, the servers will connect
to edge switches via 1 Gbps links,
Minimum Power Consumption
and the edge switches will connect
Quadrics TG201-XAXA is a 1U, 10 GigE switch with 12 CX4 and 12 XFP ports. TG201 switches have the lowest to each other via the 10 Gbps links
latency in the 10 GigE market. Low latency (200ns) combined with high throughput (480Gbps) and fully of the Quadrics TG201 Switch.
non-blocking layer-22 switching make it an ideal solution for the ever
ever-demanding needs of the Data
Centres, high utilization virtualized servers, Campus network core switching and storage consolidation. In
the GreenLight cluster the TG201 switch aggregates 10GE GE links from each of the edge switches. Five “The Quadrics TG201 24-port
4 10GiGE switch is a full-bisection
additional channel-bonded links provide a 50 Gbps bps connection to the OptIPuter Core. In the quest to
bandwidth switch that enables
improve GreenLight energy efficiency the choice of Quadrics’ TG201
TG201-XA answered requirements for both us to richly connect the
higher performance and lower energy consumption. TG201 switches use between 20% and 80% less Greenlight Instrument into
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power per port than other products in the 10 GigE market . campus research networks. We
are driving DWDM optics directly
from the switch to support as
much as 80Gbit/sec on a single
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"Service-Based
Based Approaches to Improving Data Center Efficiencies
Efficiencies", IDC, 2007 fiber pair."
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The GreenLight project gets its name from its plan to connect scientists and thei
their labs to more energy-efficient
- Philip Papadopoulos,
'green' computer processing and storage systems using photonics - light over optical fiber. GreenLight Project
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“The
The UCSD/Calit2 GreenLight Project: Greening Universal Communication
Communication”, Tom DeFanti, 2008
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OptIPuter, so named for its use of Optical networking and Internet Protocol, is a Grid of computational, storage and
visualization resources between eight US Universities.
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Power usage obtained from vendors’ published material.
Better Power Usage Effectiveness for Full Scale applications
The GreenLight project is testing the energy eff
efficiency
iciency of computing systems under real-world
real
conditions. Applications as diverse as bioinformatics, digital media, metagenomics, microscopy and
ocean observing will be running on full-scale
scale computing platforms. Tom DeFanti: “We have selected 5
computation
computationally–intensive
intensive application projects from a broad range of disciplines, each of which can
benefit from the GreenLight Instrument. For each project, we first measure the current energy use, then
use GreenLight to devise strategies for evolving each to a more energy efficient mode, in the process
Above: UCSD campus (courtesy of giving our team critical end
end-user
user feedback on improving the instrument .” The target is to improve
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W.Parson). Below: view of the two Power Usage Effectiveness , by a combination of best practices adoption and efficient equipment.
equipment
Modular Datacenter Containers at
"The Quadrics TG201 24-port 10 GigE switch is a full-bisection
bisection bandwidth switch that enables us to
UCSD
richly connect the Greenlight Instrument into campus research networks. We are driving DWDM optics
directly from the switch to support as much as 80Gbit/sec on a single fiber
fibe pair."