Baidu deployed ARM server power ultra low

Chinese search engine giant Baidu used Marvell's ARM chipset in its first commercially available ARM-based server. As the world's first commercial ARM server company, Baidu has led and opened a new era of new "green data centers" with lower power consumption and higher performance. These new ARM architecture servers are currently being used to support the personal cloud storage application service named "Baidu Cloud" - yun.baidu.com. With the rapid growth of "high storage-light computing" tasks brought about by cloud services and cloud applications, and by web hosting and social networking sites, current data centers have made new demands on servers. In order to meet these new requirements, Marvell introduced an easy-to-integrate one-stop solution: ARM server system-on-chip ARMADATM XP CPU.

"It is precisely because of the passion for technological breakthroughs and innovation, as well as forward-looking vision, Marvell made a series of early investments in ARM-related fields as early as ten years ago. Now Marvell has become the world's first to provide commercial end-to-end system level. Semiconductor vendors of the chip platform can fully support the various requirements for servers in the new data center era. Marvell is very proud of this.” Ramesh Sivakolundu, Vice President of Cloud Service and Infrastructure Division of Marvell, said, “Because of the unique advantages of the ARM architecture and Marvell’s With full commitment to research and development, Marvell's server system-on-chips have the advantages of low power consumption, high storage and high computational density, rapid deployment, and ease of management, helping customers start a new era of low-cost operation of cloud services and network services.

Baidu's successful deployment of ARM servers means that Marvell's vision in the ARM field has formed a complete deployment. As the only company in the world to provide end-to-end ARM solutions with a comprehensive product line covering communications, storage, servers, computing devices and mobile Internet companies, Marvell’s leadership and technology reserves in these areas help Baidu apply ARM Server. Become a reality. ”

More and more Internet and cloud service companies are moving from existing architecture servers to embrace more energy-efficient ARM architecture servers. Baidu's deployment in the ARM server industry also confirms Marvell's long-standing philosophy: ARM technology will drive Mobile devices to all areas of large enterprise data centers.

The Baidu Data Center's ARM-based servers are supported by Marvell's quad-core ARMADATM XP system-on-a-chip platform solutions, including ARMADA XP CPUs, Marvell storage controller chips, and Marvell 10Gb Ethernet switch chips. According to Baidu's cloud storage requirements, Marvell specifically tailored its ARM-based server chipset. Compared to previous X86 architecture server solutions, the Marvell platform increased storage capacity to 96TB in a 2U rack and reduced total cost of ownership by 25%. Marvell's professional accumulation in computing, storage, and networking has enabled the full integration solution to improve performance while reducing power consumption by half, meeting Baidu's demand for "green data centers."

In addition, Marvell also integrates Ethernet Physical Layer (PHY) transceiver chips to achieve the industry's lowest power loss, with the smallest size, highest performance, and most advanced feature set. The Marvell PHY technology is the industry leader in low power consumption (below 150 milliwatts per port), enabling network system manufacturers to reduce power supply and fan demand, thereby reducing system costs.