Leveling the Playing Field Industry Standard Benchmarks and OCP.pdf

1、A discussion about the role of benchmarking in impending legislation and how OCP is treated differently to OEM hardwareLeveling the Playing Field:Industry Standard Benchmarks and OCPDr Kat Burdett,Research and Development Engineer,TechbuyerLeveling the Playing Field:Industry Standard Benchmarks and

2、OCPDC SUSTAINABILITYSUSTAINABILITYThe growing Data Centre industry has caught the attention of various legislative bodies around the worldSome countries or municipalities have even opted for moratoriums on new data centresThe building of new and growth of existing data centres in those regions will

3、require participation in energy efficiency directivesVarious directives(e.g.,EnergyStar in the US and Energy Efficiency Directive&EcoDesign Directive in the EU)mandate reporting servers energy efficiency based on SPEC SERT 2.0 benchmark.SERT is also part of the accepted benchmarks for the ITEEsv KPI

4、(ISO/IEC 30134-4)BackgroundDesigned for measuring and evaluating the energy efficiency of servers Separate workloads for CPU,Memory and Storage plus Idle:7 CPU,2 Memory and 2 Stroage Worklets test at multiple load levelsSERT MetricSPEC SERT 2.0 SuiteCPU 65%(High)Memory 30%(Medium)Storage 5%(Low)Work

5、load WeightingSERT2.0 Benchmarking SetupSUT Configuration:General availability of SUT with deviations from defaults documentedMemory,Network,storage,JVM configuration rulesBenchmark configuration based on defined CPU,OS,JVM tuples Electricity Source:Preferred AC by local utility companiesInternal ba

6、tteries must be fully chargedDC Line voltages not currently supported or testedTest Setup:Limited range of power analyzers supported by PTDaemon No DC power analyzer approved No active components between the SUT and power analyzerRun and Reporting RulesQuantifying energy efficiency for data centre h