Bytes and BTUs: Trends in Data Center Sustainability
Speaker: Steven W. Hammond, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Date: Friday, December 7 2012
Time: 12:00PM to 1:00PM
Refreshments: 11:45PM
Location: 32-141
Host: Alan Edelman, CSAIL
Contact: Shirley Entzminger, 3-4347, Daisymae@math.mit.edu
COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON and BEYOND SEMINAR
Pizza & beverages provided outside Room 32-141 at 11:45 AM
ABSTRACT:
In this talk we describe a holistic approach to data center sustainability at the U.S. DOE National Renewable Energy Lab, which recently completed a new warm-water, liquid-cooled data center. The new data center is designed for a PUE of 1.06, which would make it the most energy efficient in the world. In addition, the new chiller-less data center captures the waste heat generated by the HPC system and uses that as the primary heat source for the building office space and laboratories. Any waste heat not utilized by the building is dissipated via evaporative cooling towers, eliminating the need for mechanical chillers. These approaches manifest themselves in the integrated "chips to bricks" approach we took. Finally, the new data center costs less to build than comparable data centers and will be much cheaper to operate.
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