The M2dc Project: Modular Microserver Datacentre (Invited Paper)

The Modular Microserver DataCentre (M2DC) project will investigate, develop and demonstrate a modular, highly-efficient, cost-optimized server architecture composed of heterogeneous microserver computing resources, being able to be tailored to meet requirements from various application domains such as image processing, cloud computing or HPC. M2DC will be built on three main pillars: a flexible server architecture that can be easily customised, maintained and updated; advanced management strategies and system efficiency enhancements (SEE); well-defined interfaces to surrounding software data centre ecosystem.