Facebook is exploring a technology that controls temperatures in the data center by automatically moving software workloads among servers according to the air pressure on either side of each machine. The system uses a load balancer to shift tasks among servers based on their particular “cooling needs,” which are related to air pressure in the data center. The idea is to keep … [Read more...]
New Version of Software for Modeling Data Centers
Daat Research Corp has released v5.0 of its CoolitDC CFD thermal modeling software for data centers. Daat has increased preprocessor performance to permit building larger models in less time. CoolitDC v5.0 adds a new turbulence flow model fine-tuned for data center modeling, implements rack data import from Excel, and from CAD files. In addition, optimized grid generation … [Read more...]
New Data Center Infrastructure Management Software
Raritan introduced dcTrack® 2.6 DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) software with new intelligent connectivity management capabilities to help data center professionals manage both network and power connections more efficiently. With better visibility of end-to-end connections of data center infrastructure resources, untapped capacity can be discovered and used -- … [Read more...]
Wireless Shortcut to Avoid Data Center Traffic Jams
To better handle data center congestion, researchers are testing a shortcut that doesn’t involve costly rewiring. They are experimenting with wireless links, mounted atop the server racks, to supply extra bandwidth for moving data along at crunch times. The Microsoft team forged ahead with the project, building and testing a system with tiny directional antennas at the top of … [Read more...]
The Increasing Challenge of Data Center Design and Management: Is CFD a Must?
Data centers have been cooled for many years by delivering cool air to the IT equipment via the room. One of the key advantages of this approach is the flexibility that it provides the owner/operator in terms of equipment deployment. In principle all that is necessary is to determine the maximum power consumption of the equipment and provide an equivalent amount of cooling to … [Read more...]
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