Inscription: Here is adjacent to a "no man's land" of the Hoh Xil, where the average elevation of over 5,000 snow-covered plateau, where beautiful scenery so many climbers linger, 2000, mountain happened here so people still lingering fear ... ... , which is located in Golmud, Qinghai jade Everest altitude 6178. September 30, 2007, ushered in a group of mysterious here, "The Tourist" them a glorious and sacred mission, to known as the "IT equipment restricted" jade Everest base camp, challenged ... ...
Important role to play, Lenovo server "settled" the polar plateau
Since April 2007, Beijing Olympic torch relay officially launched the road map since the Olympic torch relay has been the focus of China and the world. In particular, the Beijing Olympic Games torch relay will achieve the first time in human history, the summit of Everest's great innovation, more added to the Olympic torch relay How many passions and aspirations. Following the May national mountaineering team successfully achieved the summit of Mount Everest Olympic torch climb on board testing, on September 19 came from the Chinese Mountaineering Team has good news: To ensure that Mount Qomolangma Olympic torch relay elsewhere, the International Olympic Committee Lenovo's global partners will work together to build national climbers at Everest base camp, "Everest torch registration information command system," Lenovo will be new high-end rack-mounted servers - foolproof R515/R525's "Torch Teng Everest Commemorative Edition" server Chinese mountaineers grant information system as the core of the platform; Lenovo ThinkPad, Tin Yat notebooks, printers and other IT equipment and services will also be put into use one after another. As the Olympic torch climb Mount Everest in 2008 the last in a real-September 27, 6178 m above sea level Chinese mountaineers climbing Mount Everest in Qinghai jade. 2 The Importance of the association server engineer Guodao Ming, Yao sublimation will be together with the other three associate engineers, following the Chinese Mountaineering Team to enter an average elevation of 5,000 m above the Mount Everest region of the Qinghai jade, conduct a comprehensive test of the Lenovo product. The Jade Everest "preview", Lenovo servers harsh natural conditions will be launched in the polar environment with new challenges ... ...
"Everest torch relay command support information system" will be the summit of Mount Everest Olympic torch on board the creation of roles? Yu Everest base camp of the harsh environment on the association foolproof R515/R525 server which also proposed stringent requirements, they will do? With these questions, we approached the Qinghai jade approached Everest.
Harsh environment, 5,000 m peaks challenges performance limitations of IT equipment
Yu Everest, also known as "Cocoa Game peak very door," in Mongolian meaning is beautiful and dangerous girls, beautiful scenery accompanied with jade Everest, is the harsh natural environment here. Jade snow on Mount Everest, climate complex, situated at an altitude of 5,000 meters of jade Everest base camp, about 30 degrees temperature difference between day and night, in which the temperature reached minus 10 degrees at night and both 6-7 grade wind, relative humidity of more than 60 %, only the 553 hPa pressure, extreme environment. In addition, the cold low-pressure environment in which the generator does not work, in 120V-220V voltage alternating between wide. Such a harsh environment, the limit on the performance of IT equipment, made a high challenge.
In such a harsh environment, IT systems for the mountain sports and the Olympic torch climb Mount Everest with what significance? According to the China Mountaineering Association, Li Zhixin, executive vice chairman introduced into the mountains and mountaineering is not just a natural, challenge the limits of human physiology and psychology of outdoor sports, but also a high-tech sport. Especially in recent years, IT technology gained in the mountain sports more and more widely used, play an increasingly important role. Mountaineering training, testing, analysis, decision making, planning and all aspects of combat, including the physical condition of individual athletes, logistics, weather analysis and other aspects of information collection and data analysis are inseparable from the server and other IT equipment support.
In May 2008 during the Olympic torch ascent of Mount Qomolangma, the Chinese Mountaineering Team will be at an altitude of 5200 meters of Mount Everest base camp set up local area network for mountain climbing and back on providing information services, and a remote control platform in Beijing. Therefore, the Chinese Mountaineering Association Partnering with Lenovo's "Everest torch relay command information system security" on the IT equipment, a higher demand. First, the Everest base camp low temperature, storm frequency of adverse plateau environment, not only challenges climbers of physiological and psychological limits, but also on servers and other IT devices challenge the adaptive capacities of the environment. Second, the association foolproof server as "Everest Olympic torch relay command support information system" core platform, not only have good information processing capability to meet the Chinese mountaineers at Everest base camp training, analysis, decision making needs, and more importantly is that they want to board the 2008 Olympic torch during the summit of Mount Everest command support systems play a key role in the core platform. Because the Chinese mountaineering team should not only bring the Olympic torch summit of Mount Everest, but also by television audiences around the world with the country and great to share this exciting moment. To achieve this great undertaking, Lenovo foolproof R515/R525 server as the core IT system must have high reliability. Finally, as the Mount Everest base camp of Mount Everest is located far away from the foot of the city, higher energy costs than the daily lives of several orders of magnitude. This particular application environment, but also highlights the association as the core information system foolproof R515/R525 server environment the importance of energy-saving features.
Extraordinary performance, universal quality of the server across the peak
October 7, 2007, from the Mount Everest base camp in Qinghai jade came exciting news: after 7 days nearly 100 hours of rigorous stress testing, 2008, Mount Everest torch board information system for the core components - Lenovo foolproof R515/R525 server All meet the requirements of the test target! During the test, the successful completion of Lenovo foolproof R515/R525 server ultra-low temperature switch machine 5 times a day, poor environment, high temperature stable operation of the system for five days and four nights, CPU full load operation for 12 hours, low voltage drives running Raid, reconstruction of zero failures, as well as highland group Network testing program. Full compliance of the test target, a successful and stable operation of zero faults. Particularly worth mentioning is foolproof R515/R525 in the stronghold of VOD video system was successfully constructed, and through the initial stress test, which is called "the world's highest" video-on-demand platform.
As two more than 5000 meters above sea level can withstand the harsh challenges of harsh environments and the Chinese Mountaineering Association, strict inspection of server products, Lenovo foolproof R515/R525 server what Superman be?
According to general manager of Lenovo China's server division red cattle introduced, universal R515/R525 server is Lenovo's just launched in September new rack-mounted servers. One, universal R515/R525 are 1U/2U rack servers, which is a common characteristic of high performance, high reliability and energy saving advantages of a three. These three strengths so that it can fully adapt to high altitude, harsh environment such as low temperature and pressure, and meet the "Mount Everest torch relay command support information system" server processing power, reliability and energy conservation Huanbao strict requirements.
Lenovo foolproof R515/R525 support the new Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5300 series, compared to previous generation Intel Xeon processors, the same power consumption, the performance increase of up to 50%. MASS R515/R525 server used two 64-bit Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, with four-channel read and write large capacity memory DDR2-667FBD can provide powerful computing performance. MASS R515 1U narrow in support of six hard disk space; MASS R525 is currently the industry's only a single machine can support 12 drives 2U server and bandwidth bottlenecks at the same time ease the IO to provide mass storage expansion, called the world's fastest 2U server currently running. Test results show outstanding performance R515/R525 foolproof, easily qualified for "Everest Olympic torch relay command information system security" on the information processing capabilities.
Qomolangma torch relay to ensure foolproof, as the heart of its IT server reliability is the key. MASS R515/R525 server can easily cope as mountain climbers as high temperature, cold and other harsh environmental challenges, in -30 ℃ ~ 40 ℃ in the wide temperature range of stability. Even in the Mount Everest base camp, but also a steady job. MASS R515/R525 memory system uses the four-channel interactive reading and writing, and to support memory mirroring and hot backup, the system can well avoid downtime caused by memory failures, the effective protection of data security. MASS R515/R525 support 2.5-inch SAS drives, the average uptime (MTBF) up to 1.6 million hours, compared with 3.5-inch SAS drives 14% higher, making the system more stable and reliable. In addition, universal R515/R525 battery protection with intelligent RAID, RAID can monitor the number of battery charging, battery capacity and temperature information, allowing users to clear the current status of the RAID, ensure that the RAID is always in top working condition.
Mountain climber to successfully reach the summit, in addition to excellent physical fitness, but also pay attention to climb as much as possible in the process of reducing energy consumption, a reasonable allocation of physical strength. Similarly, the association foolproof R515/R525 server has outstanding energy saving features, better adapted to the specific operating environment Everest base camp. MASS R515/R525 support Lenovo's unique LECOT energy optimization, high conversion efficiency of components, saving power conversion in power consumption; they allow for dynamic on-demand power supply technology, saving unnecessary server idle power consumption under ; 1 +1 hot plug redundant power conversion efficiency up to 90%, reduce system power consumption; work by detecting the status of key components, real-time power consumption and heat dissipation-conditioning system and save unnecessary power consumption. Lenovo foolproof R515/R525 is also equipped with a unique planning tool cabinet to cabinet for the accurate calculation of unit input power, heat dissipation peak and weight, to achieve the best overall energy savings.
General manager of Lenovo China's server business was further pointed out that the red cow, Lenovo server details through Jiangxinduju designed to improve the foolproof R515/R525 maintainability, so that it can better suited to Everest base camp in the harsh operating environment. For example, universal R515/R525 all removable by three-stage guide rail design, easy to detect faults and replacement parts, automatic fault diagnosis using the boot of "Doctor Inside" technology, universal eye intelligent monitoring and management system and many other innovative designs.
Prepare 08, Lenovo servers are full of confidence
Turin Winter Olympic Games in 2006 suffered from cold and other harsh environmental challenges to achieve zero failure operation, to support the Chinese mountaineers at an altitude of 5200 meters above Everest base camp construction, "the torch Teng Everest Command System," International Olympic Committee as the global cooperation partners and the Olympic torch relay global partner, Lenovo foolproof servers, notebooks and other IT equipment, like the Chinese, like climbers to the peak of quality and continued to challenge the peak of his mind, and continue to conquer the peak in the foot. With the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games approaching, we look forward to also wish the Chinese mountaineering team can build with the association's "Mount Everest torch registration information command system" support, in May 2008 the successful design of the Chinese themselves "Lucky Cloud" Olympic torch onto the summit of Mount Everest, so that the people of China and the world to share the first time he climbed Everest Olympic torch of this great and exciting time.