1. January 28–29, 2014San Jose Engineering Workshop Gus Malek-Madani Founder, CEO/CTO Green Platform Corporation

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

3. Engineering Workshop We improve storage performance by implementing vibration protection systems 3 Green Platform Corporation

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

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

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

7. Engineering Workshop 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) Green Platform Corporation7 Side-By-Side Benchmark Testing by Q-Associates (a UK SI) http://static.usenix.org/event/sustainit10/tech/full_papers/turner.pdf http://static.usenix.org/event/sustainit10/tech/full_papers/turner.pdf

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

9. Engineering Workshop Customer Results 52% increase in IOPs and Throughput in a SAN environment Top Tier Consulting Firm “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. Green Platform Confidential9

10. Engineering Workshop 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 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

11. Engineering Workshop Novel technology Patented carbon fiber solution Dissipates vibration passively Frictionless and risk-free implementation Proven “Real World” results yielding 40%+ improvement in performance 9 AVR-1000 Rack US Patent No. 8,240,490 Green Platform Corporation

12. Engineering Workshop 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 12Green Platform Corporation Commodity node on shake table

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

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

15. Engineering Workshop 23% faster saves $ Green Platform Confidential15 14 Servers18 Servers $40K immediate Savings $50K 3-Year Saving! VIBRATION 14 servers perform in Green Platform Rack equivalent to 18 servers in Metal rack = One rack Savings:

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

17. Engineering Workshop 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 17 Challenges for system architects and IT operations Green Platform Corporation

18. Engineering Workshop 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 18 Summary Green Platform Corporation

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