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Hot Water Cooling? Three Projects Making it Work
June 25th, 2012 : Rich Miller
The phrase “hot water cooling” seems like an oxymoron. How can hot water possibly help cool servers in high-density data centers? Here's a look at three projects making this concept work. Read More
Vigilent Stays Watchful on Data Center Cooling
May 30th, 2012 : Colleen Miller
Data center monitoring specialist Vigilent, previously known as Federspiel Controls, is benefiting from a growing focus on automated energy management to buildings and data centers. Read More
Study: Server Failures Don’t Rise Along With the Heat
May 29th, 2012 : Rich Miller
Servers don't sweat the heat as much as you might think. That's the takeaway from a new study from researchers at the University of Toronto, who studied data on equipment failures at data centers operated by Google, Los Alamos National Labs, and Canada's SciNet HPC consortium. Read More
How Much Containment Is Enough?
May 23rd, 2012 : Michael Potts
There is no one answer to optimum degree of containment because architectural environments, business objectives, deployment constraints and cost-benefit curves all weigh on the decision. In opting for aisle containment, data center operators can realize very quick returns on the investment. Read More
Cold Aisle Containment System Performance Simulation
April 25th, 2012 : Michael Potts
This article provides an overview the CFD diagnosis of the BayCare facility, describing the process of analysis in depth, as well as offering solutions to the cooling infrastructure. Read More
Microsoft ‘Data Plants’ to Combine Servers & Power
April 16th, 2012 : Rich Miller
Microsoft is planning to bring together data centers and renewable power generation, and will announce details of its initiative this week. The company say its vision for "data plants" will break new ground in integrating electricity and computing. Read More
Google Embraces Thermal Storage in Taiwan
April 3rd, 2012 : Rich Miller
Google said today that it would use a thermal storage system for the first time in its new data center in Taiwan. Thermal energy storage can reduce costs by allowing companies to run air conditioning systems at night, when power rates are cheaper. Read More
Too Hot for Humans, But Google Servers Keep Humming
March 23rd, 2012 : Rich Miller
Raising the temperature in server racks can make a data center more efficient. But what happens if the room gets too hot for people? If you’re Google, the servers keep humming along while the humans retreat to climate-controlled sections of the building. Read More
Submerged Supermicro Servers Accelerated by GPUs
March 22nd, 2012 : Rich Miller
Supermicro and Green Revolution Cooling have teamed with an energy research company to create a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster featuring servers that are accelerated by GPUs and immersed in a liquid cooling solution. Read More