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2.1.2 Subsystem-Level Power in a Server System<br />

To study component-level server power, the aggregate CPU power measurement<br />

framework is used and extended to provide additional functionality required <strong>for</strong><br />

subsystem-level study. <strong>The</strong> most significant difference between the studies of CPU level<br />

versus subsystem level is the requirement <strong>for</strong> simultaneously sampling multiple power<br />

domains. To meet this requirement the IBM x440 server is used which provides separate,<br />

measureable power rails <strong>for</strong> five major subsystems. It is described in Table 2.2.<br />

Table 2.2 Server System Description<br />

System Parameters<br />

Four Pentium 4 Xeon 2.0 GHz, 512KB L2 Cache, 2MB L3 Cache, 400 MHz FSB<br />

32MB DDR L4 Cache<br />

8 GB PC133 SDRAM Main Memory<br />

Two 32GB Adaptec Ultra160 10K SCSI Disks<br />

Fedora Core Linux, kernel 2.6.11<br />

By choosing this server, instrumentation is greatly simplified due to the presence of<br />

current sensing resistors on the major subsystem power domains. Five power domains<br />

are considered: CPU, chipset, memory, I/O, and disk. <strong>The</strong> components of each<br />

subsystem are listed in Table 2.3.<br />

Table 2.3 Subsystem Components<br />

Subsystem Components<br />

CPU Four Pentium 4 Xeons<br />

Chipset Memory Controllers and Processor Interface Chips<br />

Memory System Memory and L4 Cache<br />

I/O I/O Bus Chips, SCSI, NIC<br />

Disk Two 10K rpm 32G Disks<br />

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