Purdue University is moving its Steele supercomputing cluster to a portable, self-contained, modular computer center. Companies such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft make significant use of quickly deployed, energy-efficient containerized data centers. But Purdue is one of the first universities to do so and to use HP’s “POD” (Performance-optimized Data Center). The containerized data center offers advantages in cost, energy consumption and flexibility. The energy-efficient facility will reduce the load on the campus chilled water system.
Purdue Moves Supercomputer to Portable Data Center
