Intel Corporation

Blaine Monson

Pankaj Kumar

Samantha J Edirisooriya

Shanker R Nagesh

K L Siva Prasad Gadey N V

Steven C Miller

Roger C Jeppsen

A compute device for operation in a rack of a data center includes a substrate, a solid state drive array, a fan array, and a plurality of physical resources. The components of the compute device are arranged on the substrate to prevent or reduce shadowing of heat-producing physical resources, such as a processor, by other heat-producing physical resources relative to an airflow generated by the fan array. To do so, ruler solid state drives are used to facilitate positioning of the fan array toward a front edge of the substrate.

Technologies for improving processor thermal design power

In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a processor core and a power control unit. The power control unit is to identify the occurrence of a power loss from a primary power source, instruct the I/O controller to block further write requests from the one or more I/O devices and to send at least one pending write request stored by the I/O controller to the memory controller, and instruct the memory controller to complete at least one pending write request stored by the memory controller and to cause the memory to be placed into a self-refresh mode.

Method and apparatus for completing pending write requests to volatile memory prior to transitioning to self-refresh mode

Method, apparatus, and system of detecting a hot-plug event. The hot-plug event detection may be done in-band or out-of-band. The in-band detection is performed by a state machine and the out-of-band detection is performed by a logic. A circuitry is to detect a hot-plug event when inserting or removing a device from an extension bus of the plurality of extension bus slots. The circuit is to generate a hot-plug message to notify the hot-plug event. The circuitry including the state machine, the logic and a register to provide at least two bits to mask at least two states of the state machine.

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