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3Leaf Systems Launches Dynamic Data Center ServerNov 09, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- 3Leaf Systems, a developer of ASIC and software technologies for data centers, announced the general availability of its disruptive new Dynamic Data Center Server (DDC-Server) for AMD Opteron processors. "The 'distributed-and-shared' nature of 3Leaf Systems technology transforms an enterprise datacenter into an agile provider of servers that dynamically re-size to the workload while using industry standard x86 servers," said Bob Quinn, founder, chairman and CTO of 3Leaf Systems. "This reduces OpEx by minimizing operating system administration, power and cooling, and reduces CapEx by using cost-optimized (two socket) servers." According to 3Leaf Systems, the OEM-ready DDC-Server features up to 192 cores and 1TB of shared memory. It uses industry standard components such as x86 CPUs, Linux OS, 10GbE or InfiniBand interconnect, and SSD, FC, or SATA storage. The DDC-Server provides hardware partitioning for fault isolation at the board/blade level and logical fault isolation so one instance of an OS does not bring down other instances. Using industry standard software, it can offer High-Availability failover across two or more instances of an OS within or across server racks. The heart of 3Leaf Systems technologies is the DDC-ASIC. Designed to crunch through complex coherency protocols at lightning speed, the DDC-ASIC enables distributed cache coherency among all system cores while creating the basic control structure needed for high system agility. The DDC-ASIC chip is available now for AMD Opteron processors supporting the AMD HyperTransport interconnect and up to 1TB of main memory across up to 16 nodes targeting the Shanghai, Istanbul, and Magny Cours processors. The next version of this chip will support 32 nodes, up to 64 TB of main memory, and is designed for Intel CPUs, compatible with the Intel Quick Path Interconnect (QPI) 1.1. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) |