February 23, 2009 8:03 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
data center cooling,
Data center powerOver at CIO, there is an article about a so-called data center power-density paradox. According to Michael Bullock, the CEO of a data center design consultancy called
February 2, 2009 7:04 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data Center airflow,
data center coolingThe following is a guest post from Vali Sorell, an associate partner in the critical facilities division at the Syska Hennessy Group. Sorell was a speaker at the ASHRAE Technical Committee (TC) 9.9 sessions in Chicago last week, and had some comments...
January 28, 2009 5:39 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
data center coolingIn a story earlier this week, I reported on the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) TC 9.9 expanding its recommended guidelines for data center temperature...
January 27, 2009 10:31 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data Center airflow,
data center cooling
With the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers
January 26, 2009 9:37 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data Center airflow,
data center coolingCHICAGO - The American Society for Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) has expanded recommended guidelines for ambient data center temperatures, but they're warning that the new range could cause data center noise increases.
There has been a lot of talk recently about...
January 23, 2009 3:35 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data Center airflow,
data center cooling,
Data center user groupsNext week is the annual winter meeting for the American Society for Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), to be held in Chicago. The group's Technical Committee 9.9 focuses on data centers and has become an industry leader on the subject...
September 19, 2008 3:47 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
data center cooling,
DataCenterA common metric for determining cooling capacity in data centers is kw/rack, or kilowatts per rack, and cfm/kw, or cubic feet per minute per kilowatt. By figuring out how much power your server cabinet is drawing, the logic goes that you'll then know how much cooling you need.
From looking...
September 17, 2008 5:12 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data Center airflow,
data center cooling,
DataCenterLast week I spoke to Sherman Ikemoto from Future Facilities, which sells computational fluid dynamics software for analyzing airflow in data centers. I...
