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Customer
: University of California, San Diego
GreenLight: Getting more comfewer watts of energy
Evolution of Information Technology and the increasicomputational power have historically been an obstathat over the past ten years the average cost to powedoubled
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. A project run by the University of Californiaefficiency of new technologies such as 10 Gigabit Ethecapacity and efficiency - and reduction of energy cost
How to enable green IT computer scienc
A green strategy requires various steps: monitoring anconnected devices, design innovative ways to reduce emeasuring to refine the process. Academia and enterprways to get more computational work done for fewerproject
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run by the scientists and engineers of UC SanWhen it is built, the GreenLight Instrument will measurconsumption of large-scale scientific applications fromWhat makes the project exemplary is that the cluster uhas been designed to use less energy than most data cModular Datacenter container with 8 racks of servers.edge switches via 1 Gbps links and the edge switches wTG201-XA switch, which maintains low latency and higservice.The immediate advantage, as Tom DeFanti, Gre“GreenLight uses 10 Gbps over dedicated optical fiber lfaculty
closets
and into much
greener 
configurations.”
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Quadrics TG201: Maximum Data ThrougMinimum Power Consumption
Quadrics TG201-XA is a 1U, 10 GigE switch with 12 CX4latency in the 10 GigE market. Low latency (200ns) comnon-blocking layer-2 switching make it an ideal solutioCentres, high utilization virtualized servers, Campus nethe GreenLight cluster the TG201 switch aggregates 10additional channel-bonded links provide a 50 Gbps conimprove GreenLight energy efficiency the choice of Quhigher performance and lower energy consumption. Tpower per port than other products in the 10 GigE ma
 
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Service-Based Approaches to Improving Data Center Efficie
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The GreenLight project gets its name from its plan to connec'green' computer processing and storage systems using photo
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“The UCSD/Calit2 GreenLight Project: Greening Universal Co
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OptIPuter, so named for its use of Optical networking and Invisualization resources between eight US Universities.
 
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Power usage obtained from vendors’ published material.
Technology
: 10 Gigabit Ethernet
utational work done for
g energy demands that go with higherle to sustainability. Recent IDC research showsr and cool an installed base of servers has, San Diego aims to measure the energyrnet (10 GigE) and their impact on cluster.
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controlling the use of electricity of network-nergy consumption and then more monitoring andise often collaborate in this research, looking foratts of energy. This is the scope of GreenLight, aiego, one of the greenest universities in the US.e, monitor and help optimize the energymany different disciplines.sed to run the measurements and the monitoringnters: GreenLight consists of an eco-friendly Sunhen fully populated, the servers will connect to 7ill connect with 10 GigE uplinks to the Quadricsbandwidth and ensures the end users quality of enLight principal investigator, explains, is thatinks so end users move their clusters out of their
hput, Minimum Latency and
and 12 XFP ports. TG201 switches have the lowestbined with high throughput (480Gbps) and fullyfor the ever-demanding needs of the Datawork core switching and storage consolidation. InGE links from each of the edge switches. Fivenection to the OptIPuter
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Core. In the quest todrics’ TG201-XA answered requirements for both201 switches use between 20% and 80% lessket
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ncies", IDC, 2007t
 
scientists and their labs to more energy-efficientnics - light over optical fiber.mmunication”, Tom DeFanti, 2008ternet Protocol, is a Grid of computational, storage and
VieMoQu10cotoantoof tw of GreenLight racks inside thedular Datacenter Containerdrics TG201-XA 10 GigE SwitchE Link Aggregation: Whenplete, the servers will connectdge switches via 1 Gbps links,the edge switches will connectach other via the 10 Gbps linkshe Quadrics TG201 Switch.“The Quadrics TG201 24-port10GiGE switch is a full-bisectionbandwidth switch that enablesus to richly connect theGreenlight Instrument intocampus research networks. Weare driving DWDM optics directlyfrom the switch to support asmuch as 80Gbit/sec on a singlefiber pair."- Philip Papadopoulos,GreenLight Project
 
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