(19) United States
`(12) Patent Application Publication
`Fung
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`(10) Pub. No.: US 2002/0004912 Al
`Jan. 10, 2002
`(43) Pub. Date:
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`1111111111111111 IIIIII IIIII 11111 1111111111 11111 11111 111111111111111 IIIII IIII
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`(54) SYSTEM, ARCHITECTURE, AND METHOD
`FOR LOGICAL SERVER AND OTHER
`NETWORK DEVICES IN A DYNAMICALLY
`CONFIGURABLE MULTI-SERVER
`NETWORK ENVIRONMENT
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`(75)
`
`Inventor: Henry T. Fung, San Jose, CA (US)
`
`Correspondence Address:
`R. Michael Ananian
`FLEHR HOHBACH TEST
`ALBRITTON & HERBERT LLP
`Four Embarcadero Center, Suite 3400
`San Francisco, CA 94111 (US)
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`(73)
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`Assignee: Amphus, Inc.
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`(21)
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`Appl. No.:
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`09/860,212
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`(22)
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`Filed:
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`May 18, 2001
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`(63)
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`Related U.S. Application Data
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`Jul. 23, 1998, now Pat. No. 6,079,025. Continuation
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`now Pat. No. 5,892,959. Continuation of application
`No. 08/460,191, filed on Jun. 2, 1995, now aban(cid:173)
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`filed on Aug. 3, 1994, now abandoned. Continuation
`of application No. 08/017,975, filed on Feb. 12, 1993,
`now Pat. No. 5,396,635. Continuation of application
`No. 07/908,533, filed on Jun. 29, 1992, now aban(cid:173)
`doned. Continuation of application No. 07/532,314,
`filed on Jun. 1, 1990, now abandoned. Continuation
`
`of application No. 09/558,473, filed on Apr. 25, 2000.
`Non-provisional of provisional application No.
`60/283,375, filed on Apr. 11, 2001. Non-provisional
`of provisional application No. 60/236,043, filed on
`Sep. 27, 2000. Non-provisional of provisional appli(cid:173)
`cation No. 60/236,062, filed on Sep. 27, 2000.
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`Publication Classification
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`Int. Cl.7 ......... G06F 1/26; G06F 1/28; G06F 1/30
`(51)
`(52) U.S. Cl. .............................................................. 713/300
`
`(57)
`
`ABSTRACT
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`Network architecture, computer system and/or server, cir(cid:173)
`cuit, device, apparatus, method, and computer program and
`control mechanism for managing power consumption and
`workload in computer system and data and information
`servers. Further provides power and energy consumption
`and workload management and control systems and archi(cid:173)
`tectures for high-density and modular multi-server computer
`systems that maintain performance while conserving energy
`and method for power management and workload manage(cid:173)
`ment. Dynamic server power management and optional
`dynamic workload management for multi-server environ(cid:173)
`ments is provided by aspects of the invention. Modular
`network devices and integrated server system, including
`modular servers, management units, switches and switching
`fabrics, modular power supplies and modular fans and a
`special backplane architecture are provided as well as
`dynamically reconfigurable multi-purpose modules and
`servers. Backplane architecture, structure, and method that
`has no active components and separate power supply lines
`and protection to provide high reliability in server environ(cid:173)
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`SYSTEM, ARCHITECTURE, AND METHOD FOR
`LOGICAL SERVER AND OTHER NETWORK
`DEVICES IN A DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURABLE
`MULTI-SERVER NETWORK ENVIRONMENT
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`RELATED APPLICATION
`
`[0001] This application is a continuing application under
`35 U.S.C. §§ 119(e) and 120, wherein applicant and inventor
`claim the benefit of priority to United States Provisional
`application Ser. No. 60/283,375 entitled System, Method
`And Architecture For Dynamic Server Power Management
`And Dynamic Workload Management for Multi-Server
`Environment filed Apr. 11, 2001; United States Provisional
`application Ser. No. 60/236,043 entitled System, Apparatus,
`and Method for Power-Conserving Multi-Node Server
`Architecture filed Sep. 27, 2000; and United States Provi(cid:173)
`sional Application Serial No. 60/236,062 entitled System,
`Apparatus, and Method for Power Conserving and Disc(cid:173)
`Drive Life Prolonging RAID Configuration filed Sep. 27,
`2000; each of which application is hereby incorporated by
`reference.
`
`[0002] The following United States Utility patent appli(cid:173)
`cations are also related applications: U.S. Utility patent
`application Ser. No. 09/___ (Attorney Docket No.
`A-70531/RMA) entitled System, Method, and Architecture
`for Dynamic Server Power Management and Dynamic
`Workload Management for Multi-server Environment filed
`May ___ 2001; U.S. Utility patent application Ser. No.
`09/ ___ (Attorney Docket No. A-70532/RMA) entitled
`System and Method for Activity or Event Based Dynamic
`Energy Conserving Server Reconfiguration filed _ _ _
`May 2001; U.S. Utility patent application Ser. No.
`09/ ___ (Attorney Docket No. A-70533/RMA) entitled
`System, Method, Architecture, and Computer Program
`Product for Dynamic Power Management in a Computer
`System filed May ___ 2001; U.S. Utility patent appli-
`cation Ser. No. 09/ ___ (Attorney Docket No. A-70534/
`RMA) entitled Apparatus, Architecture, and Method for
`Integrated Modular Server System Providing Dynamically
`Power-managed and Work-load Managed Network Devices
`filed May ___ 2001;U.S. Utility patent application Ser.
`No.09/__ (Attorney Docket No. A-70535/RMA)
`entitled System, Architecture, and Method for Logical
`Server and Other Network Devices in a Dynamically Con(cid:173)
`figurable Multi-server Network Environment
`filed
`May ___ 2001; U.S. Utility patent application Ser. No.
`09/ ___ (Attorney Docket No. A-70536/RMA) entitled
`Apparatus and Method for Modular Dynamically Power(cid:173)
`Managed Power Supply and Cooling System for Computer
`Systems, Server Applications, and Other Electronic Devices
`filed ___ May 2001; and, U.S. Utility patent application
`Ser. No. 09/ _ _ (Attorney Docket No. A-70537/RMA)
`entitled Power on Demand and Workload Management
`System and Method; each of which applications is hereby
`incorporated by reference.
`
`[0003] This is also a continuing application claiming the
`benefit of priority under 35 U.S.C. § 120 to each of the
`following applications: U.S. patent Application Ser. No.
`09/558,473 filed Apr. 25, 2000, entitled System and Method
`Of Computer Operating Mode Clock Control For Power
`Consumption Reduction; which is a continuation of U.S.
`patent application Ser. No. 09/121,352 filed Jul. 23, 1998,
`entitled System and Method of Computer Operating Mode
`
`Control for Power Consumption Reduction; which is a
`division of application Ser. No. 08/767,821 filed Dec. 17,
`1996, entitled Computer Activity Monitor Providing Idle
`Thread and Other Event Sensitive Clock and Power Control
`abandoned; which is a continuation of application Ser. No.
`08/460,191 filed Jun. 2, 1995, entitled Activity Monitor That
`Allows Activity Sensitive Reduced Power Operation of a
`Computer System abandoned; which is a continuation of
`application Ser. No. 08/285,169 filed Aug. 3, 1994, entitled
`Power Management for Data Processing System, aban(cid:173)
`doned; which is a continuation of application Ser. No.08/
`017,975 filed Feb. 12, 1993 entitled Power Conservation
`Apparatus Having Multiple Power Reduction Levels Depen(cid:173)
`dent Upon the Activity of a Computer System, U.S. Pat. No.
`5,396,635; which is a continuation of application Ser. No.
`07/908,533 filed Jun. 29, 1992 entitled Improved Power
`Management for Data Processing System, abandoned;
`which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/532,314
`filed Jun. 1, 1990 entitled, Power Management for Data
`Processing System, now abandoned; each of which appli(cid:173)
`cations are hereby incorporated by reference.
`
`[0004] This application is also related to: U.S. Pat. No.
`6,079,025 issued June 20, 2000 entitled system and Method
`of computer Operating mode Control For power Consump(cid:173)
`tion system; U.S. Pat. No. 5,892,959 issued Apr. 6, 1999
`entitled Computer Activity Monitor Providing Idle Thread
`And Other Event Sensitive Clock and Power Control; U.S.
`Pat. No. 5,799,198 issued Aug. 25, 1998 entitled Activity
`Monitor For Computer systems Power Management; U.S.
`Pat. No. 5,758,175 issued May 26, 1998 entitled Multi(cid:173)
`Mode Power Switching For Computer Systems; U.S. Pat.
`No. 5,710,929 issued Jan. 20, 1998 entitled Multi-State
`Power Management For Computer System; and U.S. Pat.
`No. 5,396,635 issued Mar. 7, 1995 for Power Conservation
`Apparatus Having Multiple Power Reduction Levels Depen(cid:173)
`dent Upon the Activity of a Computer System; each of which
`patents are herein incorporated by reference.
`
`FIELD OF THE INVENTION
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`[0005] This invention pertains generally to architecture,
`apparatus, systems, methods, and computer programs and
`control mechanisms for managing power consumption and
`work-load in data and information servers; more particularly
`to power consumption and workload management and con(cid:173)
`trol systems for high-density multi-server computer system
`architectures that maintain performance while conserving
`energy and to the method for power management and
`workload management used therein, and most particularly to
`system, method, architectures, and computer programs for
`dynamic server power management and dynamic workload
`management for multi-server environments.
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`BACKGROUND
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`[0006] Heretofore, servers generally, and multi-node net(cid:173)
`work servers in particular, have paid little if any attention to
`power or energy conservation. Such servers were designed
`and constructed to run at or near maximum levels so as to
`serve data or other content as fast as possible, or where
`service demands were less than capacity to remain ever
`vigilant to provide fast response to service requests. Increas(cid:173)
`ing processor and memory speeds have typically been
`accompanied by higher processor core voltages to support
`the faster device switching times, and faster hard disk drives
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`have typically lead to faster and more energy-hungry disk
`drive motors. Larger memories and caches have also lead to
`increased power consumption even for small single-node
`servers. Power conservation efforts have historically focused
`on the portable battery-powered notebook market where
`battery life is an important marketing and use characteristic.
`However, in the server area, little attention has been given to
`saving power, such servers usually not adopting or utilizing
`even the power conserving suspend, sleep, or hibernation
`states that are available with some Microsoft 95/98/2000,
`Linux, Unix, or other operating system based computers,
`personal computers, PDAs, or information appliances.
`
`[0007] Multi-node servers present a particular energy con(cid:173)
`sumption problem as they have conventionally be archi(cid:173)
`tected as a collection of large power hungry boxes intercon(cid:173)
`nected by external interconnect cables. Little attention has
`been placed on the size or form factor of such network
`architectures, the expansability of such networks, or on the
`problems associated with large network configurations.
`Such conventional networks have also by-and-large paid
`little attention to the large amounts of electrical power
`consumed by such configurations or in the savings possible.
`This has been due in part because of the rapid and unex(cid:173)
`pected expansion in the Internet and in servers connected
`with and serving to Internet clients. Internet service com(cid:173)
`panies and entrepreneurs have been more interested in a
`short time to market and profit than on the effect on electrical
`power consumption and electrical power utilities; however,
`continuing design and operation without due regard to
`power consumption in this manner is problematic.
`
`[0008] Networks servers have also by-and-large neglected
`to factor into the economics of running a network server
`system the physical plant cost associated with large rack
`mounted equipment carrying perhaps one network node per
`chassis. These physical plant and real estate costs also
`contribute to large operating costs.
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`[0009]
`In the past, more attention was given to the pur(cid:173)
`chase price of equipment and little attention to the operating
`costs. It would be apparent to those making the calculation
`that operating costs may far exceed initial equipment pur(cid:173)
`chase price, yet little attention has been paid to this fact.
`More recently, the power available in the California electri(cid:173)
`cal market has been at crisis levels with available power
`reserves dropping below a few percent reserve and rolling
`blackouts occurring as electrical power requirements drop
`below available electrical power generation capacity. High
`technology companies in the heart of Silicon Valley cannot
`get enough electrical power to make or operate product, and
`server farms which consume vast quantities of electrical
`energy for the servers and for cooling equipment and facili(cid:173)
`ties in which they are housed, have stated that they may
`relocated to areas with stable supplies of low-cost electricity.
`
`[0010] Even were server manufactures motivated to adopt
`available power management techniques, such techniques
`represent only a partial solution. Conventional computer
`system power management tends to focus on power man(cid:173)
`aging a single CPU, such as by monitoring certain restricted
`aspects of the single CPU operation and making a decision
`that the CPU should be run faster to provide greater perfor(cid:173)
`mance or more slowly to reduce power consumption.
`
`[0011] Heretofore, computer systems generally, and server
`systems having a plurality of servers where each server
`includes at least one processor or central processing unit
`(CPU) in particular have not been power managed to main(cid:173)
`tain performance and reduce power consumption. Even
`where a server system having more than one server com(cid:173)
`ponent and CPU may possibly have utilized a conventional
`personal computer architecture that provided some measure
`of localized power management separately within each
`CPU, no global power management architecture or methods
`have conventionally been applied to power manage the set
`of servers and CPUs as a single entity.
`
`[0012] The common practice of over-provisioning a server
`system so as to be able to meet peak demands has meant that
`during long periods of time, individual servers are consum(cid:173)
`ing power and yet doing no useful work, or several servers
`are performing some tasks that could be performed by a
`single server at a fraction of the power consumption.
`
`[0013] Operating a plurality of servers, including their
`CPU, hard disk drive, power supply, cooling fans, and any
`other circuits or peripherals that are associated with the
`server, at such minimal loading also unnecessarily shortens
`their service life. However, conventional server systems do
`not consider the longevity of their components. To the extent
`that certain of the CPUs, hard disk drives, power supplies,
`and cooling fans may be operated at lower power levels or
`for mechanical systems (hard disk drive and cooling fans in
`particular) their effective service life may be extended.
`
`[0014] Therefore there remains a need for a network
`architecture and network operating method that provides
`large capacity and multiple network nodes or servers in a
`small physical footprint and that is power conservative
`relative to server performance and power consumed by the
`server, as well as power conservative from the standpoint of
`power for server facility air conditioning. These and other
`problems are solved by the inventive system, apparatus and
`method. There also remains a need for server farms that are
`power managed in an organized global manner so that
`performance is maintained while reducing power consump(cid:173)
`tion. There also remains a need to extend the effective
`lifetime of computer system components and servers so that
`the total cost of ownership is reduced.
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`SUMMARY
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`[0015] Aspects of the invention provide network architec(cid:173)
`ture, computer system and/or server, circuit, device, appa(cid:173)
`ratus, method, and computer program and control mecha(cid:173)
`nism for managing power consumption and workload in
`computer system and data and information servers. Further
`provides power and energy consumption and workload
`management and control systems and architectures for high(cid:173)
`density and modular multi-server computer systems that
`maintain performance while conserving energy and method
`for power management and workload management.
`Dynamic server power management and optional dynamic
`workload management for multi-server environments is
`provided by aspects of the invention. Modular network
`devices and integrated server system, including modular
`servers, management units, switches and switching fabrics,
`modular power supplies and modular fans and a special
`backplane architecture are provided as well as dynamically
`reconfigurable multi-purpose modules and servers.
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`BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
`[0016] FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic illustration showing a
`exemplary embodiment of an inventive power conserving
`high-density server system.
`[0017] FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic illustration showing an
`exemplary embodiment of a single 2U high rack mountable
`Integrated Server System Unit having a plurality of modular
`server units.
`[0018] FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic illustration showing a
`standard server farm architecture in which multiple nodes
`are individually connected by cables to each other to form
`the desired network.
`[0019] FIG. 4 is a diagrammatic illustration showing an
`embodiment of the inventive Integrated Appliance Server
`(IAS) standard architecture also or alternatively referred to
`as an Integrated Server System (ISS) architecture in which
`multiple nodes selected from at least a computer node (CN)
`such as a server module (SM), network node (NN) also
`referred to as a switch module, and monitor or management
`node (MN) also referred to as a Management Module (MM)
`are provided within a common enclosure and coupled
`together via an internal backplane bus.
`[0020] FIG. 5 is a diagrammatic illustration showing
`another embodiment of the invention in which multiple
`modular IAS ( or ISS) clusters each containing multiple
`nodes are cascaded to define a specialized system.
`[0021] FIG. 6 is a diagrammatic illustration showing an
`embodiment of an Integrated Server System Architecture
`having two interconnected integrated server system units
`(ISSUs) and their connectivity with the external world.
`[0022] FIG. 7 is a diagrammatic illustration showing an
`exemplary embodiment of an AMPC bus and the connec(cid:173)
`tivity of Server Modules and Management Modules to the
`bus to support serial data, video, keyboard, mouse, and other
`communication among and between the modules.
`[0023] FIG. 8 is a diagrammatic illustration showing an
`exemplary embodiment of ISSU connectivity to gigabit
`switches, routers, load balances, and a network.
`[0024] FIG. 9 is a diagrammatic illustration showing an
`embodiment of the inventive power conserving power man(cid:173)
`agement between two servers and a manager.
`[0025] FIG. 10 is a diagrammatic illustration showing an
`alternative embodiment of a server system showing detail as
`to how activity may be detected and operating mode and
`power consumption controlled in response.
`[0026] FIG. 11 is a diagrammatic illustration showing
`another alternative embodiment of a server system particular
`adapted for a Transmeta Crusoe™ type processor having
`LongRun™ features showing detail as to how activity may
`be detected and operating mode and power consumption
`controlled in response.
`[0027] FIG. 12 is a diagrammatic illustration showing
`aspects of the connectivity of two management modules to
`a plurality of server modules and two Ethernet switch
`modules.
`[0028] FIG. 13 is a diagrammatic illustration showing an
`exemplary internetwork and the manner in which two dif(cid:173)
`ferent types of master may be deployed to power manage
`such system.
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`[0029] FIG. 14 is a diagrammatic illustration showing a
`graph of the CPU utilization (processor activity) as a func(cid:173)
`tion of time, wherein the CPU utilization is altered by
`entering different operating modes.
`[0030] FIG. 15 is a diagrammatic illustration showing an
`exemplary sta