Facebook Publish guide to energy efficient Server & Data Centre Design

[somabc]

Hacking Conventional Computing Infrastructure

 

We started a project at Facebook a little over a year ago with a pretty big goal: to build one of the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost.

We decided to honor our hacker roots and challenge convention by custom designing and building our software, servers and data centers from the ground up.

 

The result is a data center full of vanity free servers which is 38% more efficient and 24% less expensive to build and run than other state-of-the-art data centers.

 

But we didn't want to keep it all for ourselves. Instead, we decided to collaborate with the entire industry and create the Open Compute Project, to share these technologies as they evolve.

 

As a result of the Open Compute Project, Facebook's Oregon data center is now one of the most efficient in the world:

 

Facebook’s energy consumption per unit of computing power has declined by 38%.

The new data center has a PUE of 1.073, well below the EPA-defined state-of-the-art industry average of 1.51. This means 93% of the energy from the grid makes it into every Open Compute server.

We've removed centralized chillers, eliminated traditional inline UPS systems and removed a 480V to 208V transformation.

Ethernet-powered LED lighting and passive cooling infrastructure reduce energy spent on running the facility.

 

 

 

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Edited April 8, 2011 by somabc

[featured_spectre]

All I can say is that it is sexy. LOL

[somabc]

The neon PoE Fibre Optics is a very nice touch!

[Arthur]

More details on the servers...

 

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/closer-look-open-compute-server-designs/

 

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/server-fb1.jpg

 

The design starts with a stripped down "vanity-free" chassis, designed in a 1.5U form factor to accommodate taller heat sinks and fans and improved airflow through the server.

 

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/server-fb.jpg

 

The motherboard was built by Quanta Electronics of Taiwan and can support 2 AMD Opteron 6100 series chips or 2 Intel Xeon 5500 / 5600 series processors. The AMD version has an upper limit of 384 GB of memory, while the Intel version can handle 288 GB.

 

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/server-fb2.jpg

 

Open Compute power supplies allow servers to use 277-volt power instead of the traditional 208 volts. These units were designed by Facebook and built by Delta Electronics of Taiwan and California-based Power One. Note that the power supply includes two connections, one for 277V AC utility power and another for the 48V UPS system.

 

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/server-fb3.jpg

 

The finished Open Compute Server.

Edited April 11, 2011 by Arthur

[Arthur]

The neon PoE Fibre Optics is a very nice touch!

If they were green, it would look like you were in The Matrix.

 

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/prineville-servers-1000.jpg

[andydis]

wish someone could photoshop blue to green?>

[localzuk]

wish someone could photoshop blue to green?>

 

Voila!

 

[andydis]

AWESOME!!

[Butuz]

Wow. That 48v direct input into the PSU is a really neat idea!

 

I wish my server room looked like that

 

Butuz

[john]

Wow. That 48v direct input into the PSU is a really neat idea!

 

I wish my server room looked like that

 

Butuz

 

Mine glows a shade of Blue from Smoothwall and Green from Switches and Oracle Hardware Will that no do for you

[EduTech]

Mine glows a shade of Blue from Smoothwall and Green from Switches and Oracle Hardware Will that no do for you

 

Photo?

[john]

Photo?

there ya go

[EduTech]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]9917[/ATTACH] there ya go

 

Thanks! Mmm Shiny -- SAN's are at the bottom

[FN-GM]

Looks very similar to how google have the systems setup.

 

I think someone on here has his terminal severs like this also.

 

Does anyone have the original link to the article please?

[somabc]

It's in the 1st post - Open Compute Project

[localzuk]

The interesting thing about the LEDs is that they are actually being used to light the datacentre too, rather than simply being status lighting. At least that's what I read it to mean.

[somabc]

The interesting thing about the LEDs is that they are actually being used to light the datacentre too, rather than simply being status lighting. At least that's what I read it to mean.

 

Exactly they are using a more energy efficient method of lighting the datacentre than maintaing a separate lighting system.

Edited April 12, 2011 by somabc

[joe_Burge]

Is it wrong that I want my own shipping container data centre?

[revile]

This is fantastic! Thank you very much for the info.