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Welcome to the home page of the Data Center Architecture
team.
We are a multi-disciplinary team of researchers with expertise
in computer systems, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering.
To explore our research and explore openings, send email to G.
John Janakiraman (john.janakiraman "at" hp.com).
Objective
Enterprises host their compute infrastructure in data centers.
We are investigating the architecture and operation of the compute
and physical infrastructure in data centers to develop inventive
solutions that improve the efficiency, manageability and flexibility
of these data centers.
Description
Our current research is directed at three areas:
System Architecture - Software and hardware architecture
of servers, their I/O systems, and their interconnect; system software
mechanisms and design methodologies for supporting high availability
and performance in multi-tier systems based on commodity hardware
and OS - e.g., virtual machine mechanisms, automated design for
service availability. See here.
Smart Power Our research seeks to
identify and evaluate new approaches to systems' and
solutions' design to optimize power management. A few
of our research results are summarized below. For more
details, see our list of publications or contact partha.ranganathan
AT hp.com. See
here.
Smart Cooling - Thermo-mechanical data center architectures
for energy-efficient operation, where we are pioneering sophisticated
numerical, measurement and control techniques for dynamic provisioning
of data center cooling resources. Current areas of focus are: control
systems research into new thermal solutions for cooling data centers,
software programming for the autonomous collection of data center
environmental data (including from robotic vehicles), metrology
strategy for collecting data within a data center, mechanical design
of complex thermo-mechanical assemblies, and research of phase
change solutions for the cooling of microprocessors. See
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