Exar Technologist Showcases Workforce Optimization Techniques

Server Design Summit 2011, a two-day event that highlighted the important role of servers in managing networked computing was held in Santa Clara, California on November 29-30, 2011. Exar (News - Alert) Corporation participated and its technologist, John Fryar presented.

The summit showcased the latest designing for next-generation virtualized servers in the cloud computing era, highlighted the associated problems of managing large number of servers and bundling of servers, interfaces, and software into unified architectures.

In his presentation "PK Acceleration for Increased Server Performance,” which was part of the Accelerating Application Performance session 2-20, Fryar focused on server and workload-optimization techniques and also discussed the impact and benefits that it would have on web application servers.

Fryar also focused on how to reduce the CPU computational power by using a dedicated algorithm accelerator. This appeared pertinent in the light of the fact that power consumption for CPU utilization and its dissipation are problems that generally surface.

Exar's product portfolio claims to include power management and interface components and underlying analog, mixed signal and digital technology that has enabled innovative solutions that meet the needs of the evolving connected world.

In addition to the presentation, Exar made available a whitepaper titled "Securing Cloud and Web-based Applications - Hardware Acceleration for Network Security." This whitepaper was an offshoot of extensive benchmark testing of hardware accelerated solutions versus software solutions that only utilize the system CPU.

Detailed finding are available on the Exar website. This can be accessed after registration.

In other news, Exar Corporation unveiled the XRP7618, an 8-Channel Compact Power Optimizing LED Driver. Supporting up to 30V on its LED channel inputs, the XRP7618 is ideally suited to drive up to eight strings of multiple LEDs at currents up to 100mA. Several devices can be cascaded to drive additional channels. This makes the XRP7618 the solution of choice for mid to large panel backlighting applications using a matrix of LEDs.