Installing a £3 million supercomputer in a 1970's data center. Just add water.

DCD SAN FRANCISCO: John Weale, (centre) associate engineer at Rumsey Engineers talks about the future of cooling technology

It is July 2009. The UK has just had a heatwave and all over the Northern Hemisphere things are heating up. Having an inefficient cooling system will cost you money and cause problems. Suppliers are recommending cooling audits. But what do they deliver and how should you manage them to make sure you get the best from the service

Core4 enters market with bold statements about efficiency which directly target established players such as Liebert

Often seen as barriers to adoption, Geoff Noer, of supplier SGI explains its approach to getting power in and heat out of a container

The European Union Code of Conduct (COC) for Data Center Efficiency has been largely well received with vendors, owners and operators welcoming the document that was launched by the European Commission’s Joint Research Center on 19 November 2008. But what does it mean for owners and operators?

North American continent cool spots indentified with new tool

Yahoo! takes a low tech approach to cold aisle containment

Using its 29,000 square foot Ohio data center as an example, GE says its inhouse developed technologies can drive down power and water use. It will repeat the project in its other data centers and will sell the solutions on the open market

Why does France present such a radical anomaly in its datacenter power profile? How has this impacted upon the introduction of high density servers? How is the French market choosing between cooling options?

It's not all about new product implementation in the energy efficiency race. Following a very well received presentation at the DatacenterDynamics Seattle conference in August, we asked Bob Bellantoni, Director of Energy Services for Skanska Inc. to expand on their "Fix First"concept.

Sometimes analogies are a good way to learn about complex issues...

The challenges, collaborations and triumphs behind The University of Southern California's revolutionary supercomputing facility

This article demonstrates that gravity does in fact play a role in the temperature distribution in data centers. As a result, it is important to consider the effect of gravity in the choice of cooling system. In addition, it is shown that the Rack Cooling Index (RCI) can be used to grade the cooling effectiveness of various data center cooling technologies.

Conventional data center cooling technology has not significantly changed in over 40 years. This paper will explain the basic principals used in conventional technology, the fundamental flaws with this approach, and an alternate technique using available technology.

Innovation can certainly reduce energy but there is plenty of energy saving opportunity that is relatively easy at the basic level. The basic level starts with "right sizing". This "right sizing" applies to both cooling equipment and cooling systems. This article starts with a practical example of "right sizing" and then describes five steps to achieving "right sizing" and the associated energy savings.

Is data center cooling just 'hot air'? One company discusses how it has addressed its own air management, cooling and distribution concerns