Data center cooling

MUST READ ASHRAE data center special report ARTICLE - ASHRAE hosted its annual conference in Dallas last month. This special report contains ASHRAE's latest data center information. Data center cooling strategies audiocast ARTICLE - This audio cast series tackles the latest data center cooling issues with Liebert Corporation's data center cooling expert Steve Madara. Cooling data centers with outside air gets the go-ahead ARTICLE - Using outside air to cool your data center can save you money. But what about those nasty contaminants that might come in? Liquid cooling buyers' guide TIP - Data centers are welcoming liquid cooling into their infrastructures for better cooling efficiency. This guide to liquid cooling in the data center looks at a few products.

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	Prepping data centers for a hot summer SearchDataCenter.com | 08 May 2008 ARTICLE - A Forsythe Solutions Group expert discusses tactics to keep data centers cool during the summer, including blocking out windows.

	The green data center 2.0: Beyond best practices SearchDataCenter.com | 06 May 2008 ARTICLE - Incremental data center energy-efficiency improvement will not meet increasing demand for power. IT pros need to get radical and move beyond raised floors and hot aisle/cold aisle.

	Can CFD modeling save your data center? SearchDataCenter.com | 23 Apr 2008 ARTICLE - While computational fluid dynamics (CFD) initially measured the aerodynamics of aircraft, CFD can now analyze airflow and help improve data center air-cooling techniques.

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DATA CENTER COOLING EXPERTS
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	Economizer performance: Applying CFD modeling to the data center's exterior 25 Apr 2008 TIP - CFD is not only useful for modeling airflow within a data center, it can improve air economizer performance external to a building, preventing unwanted contaminants from entering.

	Data center cooling optimization in the virtualized-server world 21 Apr 2008 TIP - How many hamburgers can you cook on a blade server? If your servers are literally cooking there are a variety of systems to consider to keep your equipment cool.

	Green UPS Tier IV data center water-side economizers 21 Jan 2008 TIP - The facilities team at United Parcel Service's data center in Alpharetta, Ga., have green data center operations down to a science. Learn how they did it in this 2-part case study.

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REFERENCE & LEARNING: 1 - 3 of 4

	Data Center Library: Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology SearchDataCenter.com | 21 Nov 2006 BOOKS - A review of Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology by Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Enterprise Architect Rob Snevely.

	Data Center Decisions Session Downloads: Power and Cooling Track (Chicago 2006) Data Center Decisions | 09 Oct 2006 DATA CENTER DECISIONS - This track looks at how data center designs can maximize air flow, A/C considerations, new techniques in cooling and the looming issue blade servers bring to cooling.

	Bob McFarlane: Blogs and more 01 Dec 2005 SPECIAL REPORT - Expert Bob McFarlane recently hosted a blog that tackled the full array of problems that face anyone managing a data center's physical environment. The best of the blog is here.

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WHITE PAPERS

	5 Ways to Find Data Center Energy Savings Published by: Continental Resources | 02 May 2008 WHITE PAPER - Retrofitting a data center to make it more energy efficient has its restrictions, but doing so can be less costly than having to rebuild an entire facility.

	Compellent's Green Advantage Extending the Life of Data Centers with an Energy-Efficient SAN Published by: Compellent | 25 Apr 2008 WHITE PAPER - This paper will discuss the green advantages delivered by Compellent's Thin Provisioning, Automated Tiered Storage and Advanced Virtualization technology.

	Control Power and Cooling for Data Center Efficiency: HP Thermal Logic Technology Published by: PC Connection and HP | 15 Apr 2008 WHITE PAPER - HP Thermal Logic gives you the unique ability to monitor, pool, balance performance, power, and cooling, according to the task at hand and cap power and cooling levels at the most efficient level for the required level of performance.

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WEBCASTS: 1 - 1 of 1

	Too darn hot! Data center power and cooling issues and solutions from A to Z - Vendor Webcast VIEW WEBCAST PREMIERED:   19 OCT 2006, 12:00 EDT (16:00, GMT) SUMMARY:   This Webcast gives you an overview of the heat chain and its implications for the data center. Learn how site planning services can help you better understand your environment and use resources more efficiently.

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	Contamination issues from critical environment cooling belts http://www.datacenterjournal.com | 27 Jun 2005 BEST WEB LINK - This article discusses how allegedly-dedicated air units could be contaminating the rooms they're supposed to clean.

	The data center of the future - Part 1 - Current trends http://www.datacenterjournal.com | 27 Jun 2005 BEST WEB LINK - Part one of this four-part series details the current trends and difficulties of today's data center: "Sometimes we run out of power, sometimes we run out of cooling, usually we run out of both."

	Cooling the SuperComputer at Virginia Tech: An Innovative Solution for an Innovative System Liebert Corporation | 21 Nov 2003 BEST WEB LINK - This case study, from Liebert Corporation, describes how Liebert helped Virginia Tech cool a cluster of 1100 64-bit, Power Mac G5 desktops, designed to be one of the five fastest supercomputers in the world.

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DEFINITIONS: 1 - 3 of 11

	data center chiller 15 Jan 2008 WORD - A data center chiller is a cooling system used in a data center to remove heat from one element and deposit it into another element. Chillers are used by industrial facilities to cool the water used in their heating, ...

	hot/cold aisle 17 Mar 2007 WORD - Hot/cold aisle (or hot aisle/cold aisle) is a method of cooling servers in data centers in which every aisle between rows of racks is bounded with exclusively hot-air outlets or exclusively cool-air intakes. Air is brought ...

	water cooling 26 Feb 2005 WORD - In computers, water cooling is a method used to lower the temperatures of computer processors, and sometimes other components such as graphics cards, using water rather than air as the cooling medium. Processor speeds have ...

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