Patent ID: 8489905

Claim:
A low power consumption general purpose compute server system comprising: a motherboard having a plurality of system components connected thereto, the plurality of system components comprising: a power supply unit comprising a plurality of power-rails to supply electric power to the plurality of system components, wherein the plurality of power-rails are independent power rails each having a voltage independently controllable by the platform manager; a peripheral board; a main processor comprising: a local bus; a plurality of main processor cores; a plurality of offload engines; and a connection fabric connected between the plurality of main processor cores and the plurality of offload engines; wherein the main processor is a communications processor system on a chip configured to operate as a general purpose compute server processor by utilizing the plurality of offload engines; a platform manager connected to the main processor with the local bus, the platform manager comprising: a platform manager processor; a plurality of platform manager cores; and a platform manager bus connected between the platform manager processor and the plurality of platform manager cores; and wherein the platform manager is configured by a platform manager software to control the power supplied by the power supply unit to each power rail from the plurality of power rails; and wherein the low power consumption general purpose compute server system is configured through the main processor and the platform manager to consume a maximum of 130 Watts of power while operating under a maximum load.