Summary: At the leading edge of 48V-to-CPU, Vicor Corporation will explain how a 48V system can be architected and implemented and will show the cost-saving benefit of running data centers on 48V. At last year’s event Google announced its initiative to promote 48V server and distribution infrastructure as a standard for data centers.

Program Description: High Performance Computing (HPC) applications have been using 48V rack power distribution architectures for over 10 years as a means of reducing power distribution losses. Due to increasing performance needs and subsequent higher power CPU and GPU requirements to meet those performance needs, mainstream data center servers are crossing a threshold of power utilization that is making the standard 12V distribution very challenging.

A 48V distribution system would enable a reduction in current of 4X that of a 12V system and with a 16X (I²R losses) reduction in power distribution losses. The presentation will show how a 48V system can be architected and easily implemented using readily available and time proven (+10 year) component level power building blocks with industry leading efficiency and density.

Dates & Venue
Thursday, March 9, 2017 — 10:30am - 10:55am
Santa Clara Convention Center 5001 Great American Parkway, Santa Clara, CA

About the Presenter:
Robert Gendron, P.E. Vice President, Vicor

Who Should Attend?
This event is ideal for any level of engineer, from junior to engineering director who is involved with designing power systems.

For more information: https://opencompute.org/

About Vicor Corporation

Vicor Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and markets modular power components and complete power systems based upon a portfolio of patented technologies.  Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, Vicor sells its products to the power systems market, including enterprise and high performance computing, industrial equipment and automation, telecommunications and network infrastructure, vehicles and transportation, aerospace and defense. www.vicorpower.com

Power Component Design Methodology

Vicor’s Power Component Design Methodology enables power system designers to reap all of the benefits of modular power component design – predictable component and system functionality and reliability, fast design cycles, and easy system configurability, re-configurability and scaling – while achieving system operating efficiency, power density and economy that rival the best alternative solutions. Utilizing Vicor’s Power System Designer, engineers can select from an extensive portfolio of proven Vicor power components to architect, optimize and simulate their complete power system, all the way from their input sources to their points of load. This innovative approach to power system design delivers fast time-to-market and state-of-the-art performance while minimizing the possibility of last minute surprises and delays that so often occur with conventional or custom design methodologies.

Vicor is a trademark of Vicor Corporation.