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While the quest for ever greater performance and processing capacity poses significant challenges for companies in terms of data centre power, cooling and space requirements, it also has consequences for the environment. For example:

A recent report from the US Environment Protection Agency (1) found that, in 2006, 1.5% of the US national electricity demand came from energy consumption of data centres. It also found that the energy consumption of servers and data centres in the USA has doubled in the past five years and is expected to almost double again in the next five years to an annual cost of around $7.4 billion.

Technology equipment has been estimated to account for about 10% of the UK’s total electricity consumption (2), roughly the equivalent of four nuclear power stations.

Gartner (3) has estimated that the global information and communications technology (ICT) industry accounts for approximately 2 percent of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, a figure equivalent to the output of the aviation industry.

Celoxica’s Accelerators help address the need for higher performance by offloading computationally intensive tasks from the server CPU to a field programmable gate array (FPGA) co-processor board.

The FPGA achieves performance through massive parallelism and pipelining instead of a high clock speed and delivers extremely high performance per watt. So by leveraging a Celoxica Accelerator to offload work from the server CPU, it is possible significantly to improve application performance, while consuming considerably less power, requiring less cooling and less space.

For example:

Celoxica’s accelerators typically consume 1/10th the power and provide at least a 10x performance improvement over the equivalent CPU based software only application.

In some instances customers have been able to replace up to 20 servers with just one Celoxica Accelerator Board.

Celoxica is committed to enabling ultra-low latency trading and market data solutions through hardware acceleration without the need for investment in reprogramming client applications.

¹ EPA Report on Server and Data Centre Energy Efficiency
² Global Action Plan - An Inefficient Truth
³ Gartner Press Release