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Gus Malek-Madani Founder, CEO/CTO Green Platform Corporation

Gus Malek-Madani Founder, CEO/CTO Green Platform Corporation. Dramatic Improvement in Storage Performance by Implementing Vibration Protection Rack. Gus Malek-Madani Founder, CEO/CTO Green Platform Corporation 2455 Old Middlefield Way #S Mountain View CA 94043

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Gus Malek-Madani Founder, CEO/CTO Green Platform Corporation

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  1. Gus Malek-Madani Founder, CEO/CTO Green Platform Corporation

  2. Dramatic Improvement in Storage Performance by Implementing Vibration Protection Rack Gus Malek-Madani Founder, CEO/CTO Green Platform Corporation 2455 Old Middlefield Way #S Mountain View CA 94043 gus@greenplatormcorp.com (650)967-4628

  3. Green Platform Corporation We improve storage performance by implementingvibration protectionsystems Green Platform Corporation

  4. Why worry about vibration? Vibration reduces performance and increases cost Green Platform Corporation • Reduces signal/noise ratio • Reduces performance • Shortens product life • Adds inefficiency • Hard to remedy

  5. Vibration primer MX" + CX' + KX = F(t) Mass Vibration Forces Stiffness Acceleration Damping Displacement Velocity C and K of materials are frequency dependent Green Platform Corporation

  6. Fans Vibration sources in Data Centers Power Distribution Increasing System Density Disk Drives Cooling Sheet Metal Rack Raised Floor UPS Unique and Distinctive Green Platform Corporation

  7. Green Platform Corporation • Side-By-Side Benchmark Testing • by Q-Associates (a UK SI)http://static.usenix.org/event/sustainit10/tech/full_papers/turner.pdf Disk Latency; Storage server in Metal Rack is very high (300 events above 100 ms) Disk Latency; Storage server in AVR is much lower (9 events above 100 ms)

  8. Storage is the bottleneck Order of magnitude slower Wastes hardware Wastes space Wastes energy Green Platform Corporation

  9. Green Platform Confidential Customer Results Top Tier Consulting Firm 52% increase in IOPs and Throughput in a SAN environment “The Green Platform increases the maximum number of VMs on a LUN without a performance decrease, giving me more options to utilize my infrastructure more effectively and save” Lead Engineer A five-hour test was run in the data center environment under heavy I/O load from VMware using the Iometer “All in one” test pattern loaded for one worker.

  10. What’s so cool about Carbon Fiber? A 6 μm diameter carbon filament (running from bottom left to top right) compared to a human hair. Green Platform Corporation • Very strong, stiff and light • Excellent damper of vibration • Different properties in different directions • Products can be highly engineered • Product performance depends on fabrication 1method and quality • Hundreds of variations • Wide ranges of price/performance

  11. Novel technology • Patented carbon fiber solution • Dissipates vibration passively • Frictionless and risk-free implementation • Proven “Real World” results yielding 40%+ improvement in performance AVR-1000 Rack US Patent No. 8,240,490 Green Platform Corporation

  12. Vibration on a commodity node • White box commodity node • 12 2TB 3.5” 7,200 rpm consumer HDD • 12 core (24 threads) CPU • Typical data center vibration • IOzone benchmarking tool Commodity node on shake table Green Platform Corporation

  13. Vibration on a Hadoop cluster • A 4-Node Hadoop cluster • CDH3u3 (Hadoop 0.20.2) • DFSio Metal rack on Shake Table Green Platform Corporation

  14. Terasort test under vibration • 1 TB dataset • Default 64 MB block size • Only one job running on cluster. It gets better with concurrent jobs. AVR-1000 On shake table Green Platform Corporation

  15. Green Platform Confidential 23% faster saves $ 14 servers perform in Green Platform Rack equivalent to 18 servers in Metal rack One rack Savings: $40K immediate Savings $50K 3-Year Saving! 18 Servers 14 Servers = • VIBRATION

  16. Vibration Protected Open Rack • Complies with Open Rack Standards • Passive vibration dissipation • Utilizes Carbon Fiber and polymers Green Platform Corporation

  17. Challenges for system architectsand IT operations Green Platform Corporation • Existing approaches to vibration dissipation are no longer good enough • Commodity storage is highly susceptible to vibration • Most unstructured/big data jobs rely on disk storage performance • Storage optimization and efficiency are impacted by vibration

  18. Summary Green Platform Corporation • Commodity hardware slowed by vibration • Big Data applications are disk drive intense • Shared Infrastructure is very dense • Needless hardware sprawl driven by vibration • Green Platform rack restores most storage performance • Frictionless and low risk remedy

  19. Call for action See us at booth C19 on the exhibit floor Green Platform Corporation • Green Platform wants more test data! • Contact us if interested in a POC in your environment

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