EUROSERVER: Energy efficient node for European micro-servers
Paper in proceeding, 2014

EUROSERVER is a collaborative project that aims to dramatically improve data centre energy-efficiency, cost, and software efficiency. It is addressing these important challenges through the coordinated application of several key recent innovations: 64-bit ARM cores, 3D heterogeneous silicon-on-silicon integration, and fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD SOI) process technology, together with new software techniques for efficient resource management, including resource sharing and workload isolation. We are pioneering a system architecture approach that allows specialized silicon devices to be built even for low-volume markets where NRE costs are currently prohibitive. The EUROSERVER device will embed multiple silicon 'chiplets' on an active silicon interposer. Its system architecture is being driven by requirements from three use cases: data centres and cloud computing, telecom infrastructures, and high-end embedded systems. We will build two fully integrated full-system prototypes, based on a common micro-server board, and targeting embedded servers and enterprise servers.

System architecture

FD-SOI

ARM

Virtualization

Three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuits

Author

Y. Durand

Grenoble Alpes University

P.M. Carpenter

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

S. Adami

Eurotech

A. Bilas

Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH)

D. Dutoit

Grenoble Alpes University

A. Farcy

STMicroelectronics SA, France

Georgi Gaydadjiev

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Computer Engineering (Chalmers)

J. Goodacre

ARM Limited

M. Katevenis

Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH)

M. Marazakis

Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH)

E. Matus

Technische Universität Dresden

I. Mavroidis

Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH)

J. Thomson

OnApp

17th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, DSD 2014; Verona; Italy; 27 August 2014 through 29 August 2014

206-213

Subject Categories

Computer and Information Science

DOI

10.1109/DSD.2014.15

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