Energy-conserving general trend of events of compliance Count and announce the serial hard disks of environmental protection in the west

This Monday, the west counts the company and introduces the hard disk series of the environment protection type, and expect these hard disks can get application in tabletop, enterprise and comsumption-based electronic product of the company.

Count respect claim namely the intersection of GreenPower and (energy-conservation of green) of outloading these according to the west Serial hard disks, the capacity, between 1 TB, and used energy will be 40% more than the similar products. First style GreenPower hard disk that will be supplied this month – -WD Caviar GP is a externally positioned hard disk.

Tabletop type 3.5 inches of Caviar hard disks are planned in August outloading. Count SATA hard disk in the west of GreenPower edition that suitable enterprises employ, and the hard disk suitable for other comsumption-based electronic products such as digital camera, roof box and use has already confirmed that go on the market this quarter.

Count the company according to the west to estimate, by the look of cost of electricity consumption, each hard disk can save 10 dollars new green hard disk every year. For example, GreenPower hard disk of 1 TB, there is fewer and about 5 watts its power consumption than other hard disks of the same size, the energy consumption of the latter is usually 13.5 watts.

Further calculate again, a data centre with 10,000 hard disks can save 100,000 dollars every year in energy consumption, the discharge amount of the carbon dioxide can be reduced by 600 tons too, this is analogous to in 400 vehicles of discharge amount in one year of car of going on the road.

GreenPower series the intersection of hard disk and used energy-conserving new technology one of magnetic head produce year while being automatic when being idle, thus reduce the aerodynamic drag. In addition, these hard disks still can calculate the best seek speed, thus realize strict on-demand uses energy. The equilibrium among performance indexes such as rotational speed, speed and transmission speed of cache of the new hard disk,etc. is better.

Now, because the customer puts forward the control request to the energy consumption increasing constantly, each part of the whole hardware industry will launch the green environmental plan. Take hard disk trade as an exmple, in the market very fierce in competition, the lower products of running cost can bring better sales volume.

The west count company announce, plan, purchase with dollar of cashes in U.S.A. to compete Company, Komag of rival, for a long time on June. This purchase suggests reflecting in the highly commercialized market, the competition is fierce day by day.

IBM builds the maximum data centre of the company with green technology

IBM claimed a few days ago, the company was costing 86 million dollars to extend a data centre in Boulder, Colorado of U.S.A., will adopt a series of green technology, the data centre that will become company’s global maximum after building up.

IBM IT optimizes the executive vice president Rich Lechner and claims, the goal of IBM is by 2010, base on the premise that do not increase energy consumption and the carbon dioxide discharges, expand the capacity of the data centre by one time. The expanded project of data centre of Boulder will be adopted to have the server and store virtual, high-efficient electricity and high density computer system of the cooling system, it is a part of the whole goal of 2010.

Lechner claims: “This is for increasing. The reason why we set up these data centres is that our customer’s demands are increasing constantly. This kind of growth is carried on in a manner to benefit enviromental protection. ”

Lechner say Boulder data centre take up an area of 225,000 at present, arrive man-hour expand to 300,000 square feet next year. Because energy-conserving architectural design, new lighting system, high-efficient air-conditioning system and virtual mass use, the new expanded data centre will be than above traditional IBM data centre energy-conservation 45%.

Lechner also says, virtual technology will be used in 225,000 square feet of Off-The-Shelf data centres too, raise the efficiency. Through a series of method, for example manage and monitor energy consumption with PowerExecutive software, IBM has already reduced the emissions of carbon dioxide from 40% from 1995.

It is expanded to I/O implementing effect measurable quantity that virtual

At Intel senior vice-president and concurrently general manager of Digital Business Division Pat Mr. Kissinger and a presentation meeting of the media during this IDF, reporter carry on the brief exchange concerned the intersection of server and virtual, the intersection of blade and server and energy-conserving question and Kissinger calculate, on enterprise.

Realize in the second half year I/O virtual first virtual benchmark test emerges

One that is in data centre, in being virtual, server, network with the intersection of person who store and resource support cooperate and optimize each other only, could ensure giving play to the optimal result virtually. But on virtual resources, and very great limitation now. “Present server virtual machine and supervisor also only stay on virtual CPU and memory resource, have not included storing and I/O apparatus yet ” ,Kissinger points out, ” we will expand the virtual framework to I/O, are called VT-d, it will be a part of the platform of future generation of ours, Intel will introduce the processor platform which supports VT-d in the second half of this year. ” In order to weigh and reflect the virtual characteristic promoting and IT capital construction whole possessing cost (TCO) brought Improvement,there are which show new for basic reference testing tool vConsolidates virtual at this IDF on Intel. VConsolidate achieves the goal of testing the virtual characteristic of the server by imitating the virtual load that disposes of the model in the environment truly. ” vConsolidate is a virtual benchmark of the server, the significance used for appraising hardware and operating environment ” ,Kissinger emphasizes, ” before this, the industry has not been directed against the virtual benchmark of the server yet. ”

The standard lacks and hinders the development Intel of blade there is no new strategy yet

In the face of the market of present blade server, the standard, current situation of fighting separately that manufacturers support oneself one after another, Kissinger says with feeling: “The blade server has too many standards. But a lot of are not accepted extensively by the blade server manufacturer. ” And imbed the market in communication, ATCA is accepted as the working standard extensively. But is calculating the market, Dell, HP, IBM, SUN have one’s own standards, only follow by oneself and drib cooperative partner. “I really think that lack fast development that a general blade server framework has already hindered the server of the blade, slower than the ones that anticipate” ,Kissinger shows, ” Intel has been continuing playing an important role in ATCA all the time and, has been cooperating in supporting Blade Center standard with IBM all the time, in addition we do not have other special strategy. ”

Energy-conservation should depend on the new technology, but users’ initiative consciousness is more important

The energy consumption question of IT products is being paid attention to, the engineers researching and developing new technology in constant efforts. On this IDF, Intel has exhibited dynamic power technology for the first time too. But in energy-conservation, users’ initiative consciousness is essential. “We find a lot of usable technology is not adopted on the user, for example an investigation that we do recently shows, most PC supports LOW POWER STATE, but a lot of users have not launched this technology. That is to say a lot of PC has not entered LOW POWER STATE in free time. ” Kissinger shows, ” we will take measures to help users to start these power-saving technologies constantly. A lot of systems or IT controllers do not set up PC into the Power Save Mode now, because they should carry on work such as virus scanning, staging to PC at the night. VPro platform supports to carry on this kind of job under the Power Save Mode. ”

IBM introduces the energy-conserving server based on Intel and AMD

IBM introduced six low power consumption BladeCenter blade servers and System x servers on Thursday, integration Big Blue company and the latest power-saving technology of chip manufacturer AMD and Intel Corporation of these servers.

BladeCenter HS21, System x3550 and x3650 adopt between Intel and 50 watts of strong four kernel processors. In addition, some BladeCenter HS21 models adopt 35 watts and binuclear disposition to the strong processor of 40 watts too.

In AMD chip, IBM has put out BladeCenter LS21 and LS41, there is System x3655. These servers dispose 68 watts of binuclear AMD Opteron processors of power consumption.

Besides this, IBM is also that HS21 XM has put out 4GB Flash Drive option. HS21 XM is a blade server, support to be up to 32GB memory and 8 I/O ports.

The new server combines independent technology and low power consumption chip of IBM together, make the new product efficiency maximize. According to IBM, the newest chip of Intel is 60 watts of all right energy-conservation in each blade. IBM has also increased entering the wind and technology of regulation of circulation of the patent, it allows IT personnel to measure, control and limit the software of the server power consumption of whole to increase.