Neat

wonder what type of commercial portable air conditioner this...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:26:33 -0400

wonder what type of commercial portable air conditioner this data base uses.

fuckyeahdatacenters:

One Wilshire Data Center

By Max Clark

Need a dual hose portable air conditioner for something like...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:45:20 -0400

Need a dual hose portable air conditioner for something like this

35mm
f/2.2
1/25s
ISO-800

Server Room In Shambles

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:33:07 -0400

worklols:

Sadly I can relate to this all to well, there have been times where I have walked into my server room and found chords hanging every which way. My hpc3000 cooling unit is simple so I don’t have to worry about a mess from that. Therefor assuming I can keep it cool with my computer room cooling Unit then I wont have to go in and see the distaster.

rwfoster: GPOYW Taking a break at work! I cant explain how...

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:09:20 -0400

rwfoster:

GPOYW
Taking a break at work!

I cant explain how many times I have felt and sometimes even done the exact same thing. Whenever I go to check on my Data Center Cooling Unit I’ll contemplate curling up in the corner and taking a nap.

parislemon: flavorpill: Photographs of abandoned video...

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:34:44 -0400

parislemon:

flavorpill:

Photographs of abandoned video stores

Wow, what a difference!

I drove past a similar look today, it seems the last one in my town just went out of business. Sad to see the end of an era.

Open Rants: Caught the Cloud computing bug yet?

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:24:01 -0400

Open Rants: Caught the Cloud computing bug yet?:

With the drop of Mountain Lion the newest OS yesterday the cloud is becoming more and more a part of our lives even when most of us dont understand it. This is a great post that breaks the idea of the cloud down for us.

edwardpopoola:

Hopefully not, at least until you have taken time out to understand what it means.

Every few years, the IT industry comes out with a big buzz word. More often than not, it is the re-invention or re-packaging of an existing technology. Remember when Ajax was making the headlines? Off course at…

It’s no secret that I run my entire companies server in a...

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:19:33 -0400

It’s no secret that I run my entire companies server in a single room, and cool it with a portable data center air conditioner. I thought it may help the visual with this photo of the hpc3000 the portable unit responsible for all of my computer room cooling. The distributor that I get my units from has just put out five new models so I may be in the market for an upgrade but I can assure you that is due to no fault of this hpc3000 it has exceeded my expectations.

Sometimes it’s difficult to see for yourself the heat that...

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:58:26 -0400

Sometimes it’s difficult to see for yourself the heat that is protruding from your machines, I know that it took someone showing me maps and pictures like the one above before I fully understood the importance for computer room cooling so that one may avoid a blow out.

With things heating up all over much of the US and world for...

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:56:34 -0400

With things heating up all over much of the US and world for that matter its time we think about portable air conditioner units. AmeriCool offers nifty units that are perfect for just about any use you may have whether it be cooling off your family or your technology.

lifeattheairport:

Today’s weather forecast

This has to be literally one of the coolest data centers I have...

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:47:24 -0400

This has to be literally one of the coolest data centers I have EVER seen. I’m so jealous

brandonkoppel:

Lego Data Center

I doubt this icy data center has to worry about data center...

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:16:52 -0400

IceCube DataCenter & Laboratory

Transportation to IceCube

Inside NY Air National Guard LC-130

Ivan the Terra Bus

McMurdo Station

IceCube Laboratory

South Station Control Center

IceCube Data Center

Neutrino Observatory Array

IceCube with Aurora in the background

I doubt this icy data center has to worry about data center cooling ever.

diplomatic-internet:

THE INTERNET FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

DATA CENTER

Location - Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica

Owner - University of Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC)

World’s Most Remote High Performance Computing Data Center:

IceCube Data Center

150 servers

1,200 computing cores

3 petabytes of storage

99.5+ percent uptime

IceCube Neutrino Observatory, known as the AMANDA Neutrino Telescope

5,160 digital optical modules

60 optical modules on 86 500 meter long strings

Strings are buried 1.5km deep in the Antarctic Ice and extend below that to form an array

SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS

Ground Control Station Satellites are typically pointed nearly parallel to the ground

Broadband coverage (10 hours a day):

NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) - 150 Mbps

GOES-3 Satellite - 1 Mbps

Continuous coverage:

Iridium satellite network - 2.4 Kbps

Most of the WIPAC IT team only stay for a few months in the summer, during which they have to complete all planned IT infrastructure projects. The rest of the year, remote support is provided to residents wintering over the South Pole station.

The mission of the data center is to support the IceCube Observatory used to monitor cataclysmic astronomical events detected by an array of neutrino detectors - optical detectors buried deep into the Antarctic ice.

SERVER ROOM TRIVIA

Nearly zero humidity; electrostatic shock is a real concern; requires proper grounding when handling any circuit cards

Antarctic air is too thin for 1U servers to cool, need 2U servers minimum for proper air flow or servers overheat

HVAC system ‘cools’ the air with heating only, no air conditioning required; Outside air temperature -40 to below -70 degrees Celsius; data center temperature: 18 degrees Celsius

PICTURES:
National Science Foundation and Dan Brennan/University of Wisconson-Madison News Graphic

REFERENCE LINKS:

University of Wisconson-Madison News AMANDA Neutrino Telescope

Scientific American World’s Largest Neutrino Detector Completed at South Pole

Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory News IceCube Construction Completed December 2010

IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory

Awesome date center the ominous red glowing light makes it look...

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:07:28 -0400

Awesome date center the ominous red glowing light makes it look really spooky. Wonder what they do to control data center cooling out in the middle of nowhere like that.

fuckyeahdatacenters:

IceCube Data Center in Darkness

Photo by NSF

This has got to be one of the most fantastic data centers I have...

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:39:33 -0400

This has got to be one of the most fantastic data centers I have ever seen. I wonder how many cooling centers they have to keep this data center cool?

archloop:

Facebook Data Center

Client: Facebook
Location: Prineville, Oregon
Completion Date: April 2011
Architect: Sheehan Partners
Sheehan Partners — Neil Sheehan,principal in charge;
Marissa Brown, project manager;
Sylvia Billisics, design lead
Engineers: Alfa Tech (m/e/p)
Consultants:
Landscape: WH Pacific
Acoustical: Hessler
General contractor: DPR Construction/Fortis Construction

In January, Facebook users spent more than 10.5 billion minutes a day accessing the site just by computer, according to the company’s IPO. That takes a lot of energy. Most data centers—large hubs of servers that handle bank transactions, cloud-based email services, and friend requests—devote around one-third of their energy consumption to building operations. Having leased space in such facilities, Facebook wanted its first data center to maximize energy efficiency. Working with Sheehan Partners and AlfaTech Consulting, the company rethought every piece of equipment, from circuit boards to air handling. Thanks to an evaporative cooling system, a custom power-distribution system, and a backyard solar array, the new data center devotes just over one-fifteenth of its power to operations.

To do away with power-guzzling air-conditioning towers, Facebook located the 333,400-square-foot facility in the high desert of central Oregon, where humidity stays low and summer temperatures peak at 90 degrees. Clad in corrugated steel and enclosed by a wall of precast-concrete panels, Sheehan Partners’ design functions as a giant cooling system. Large fan walls in the mechanical penthouse push dry desert air through filters; next, misters send fine sprays of water into the air. When the water evaporates, the air temperature drops in a process called evaporative cooling. This arrangement takes advantage of advances in the operation of servers, which now run comfortably at 80 degrees, warmer than the former standard of 68 to 72 degrees.

The architects used earth-toned concrete panels for the perimeter wall, and landscaped with large rocks salvaged during construction. The center’s southwest corner houses a small office area with conference rooms and two courtyards with glazed walls, which bring daylight into the compoundlike structure.

“The building is designed around the layout of servers in their racks in rows,” Sheehan says, explaining that the length of the rows is based on the most efficient airflow through them. Facebook’s custom servers accept a higher voltage than standard equipment, eliminating extra transformers and the energy loss they create. And instead of a central uninterruptible power supply (another source of waste), each server has its own small power supply that accepts both alternating and direct current.

As a result, the LEED Gold Certified data center’s operating costs are 24 percent lower than at the company’s leased data centers. A second Prineville center is under construction, with two more under way in North Carolina and one in Sweden. To share its success—and its own model—Facebook publishes the nonproprietary portions of its technical specs through its open-source design initiative, the Open Compute Project. “Four or five years ago, there was some public discussion about the idea that data centers were going to become huge energy hogs,” says Sheehan. “This project is the answer to that concern.”

arch.record

Mission Critical Cooling

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:32:39 -0400

Things are heating up all over the US so it’s time to think about cooling things off. And when I say things I really mean Mission Critical technologies. It is now more important than ever before to keep server rooms cool. But portable air conditioner units are only for cooling down technology. They can be used for a variety of reasons:

Typical Use

Industrial kitchens
Hospitals
Laboratories
Emergency cooling
Multiple factory offices
Process cooling
Multi-workstations
Vessels
Disaster relief
Sports rooms
Special events-marquee cooling
Temporary office-lobby cooling
Equipment spot cooling
Military Uses-tents, aircraft hangars

Features

Easy installation
Cleanse & dehumidify the air as it cools
Washable filter
Self-diagnostic system
Hot & cold ducts are easily extendable
Suitable for all applications
Condensate overflow protection
Spot cool and room cool thermostat settings

Welcome to the world's first Wikipedia Town

Mon, 21 May 2012 14:57:19 -0400

This is really neat, and it makes for some cheap tours but it’s crazy to think this is what the world is going towards. Can you imagine this in Rome or even better Vatican City.

bitshare:

Over the weekend, the small Welsh town of Monmouth became the very first town in the world to be a “Wikipedia Town”. Visitors to “Monmouthpedia” will be presented with QR bar codes to scan, all over the town, which will take them to the town’s Wikipedia page.

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Nice clean server room, wonder what they are doing for data...

Fri, 18 May 2012 19:57:33 -0400

Nice clean server room, wonder what they are doing for data center cooling?

stardustbin:

Server Room

Data centers & biogas

Thu, 10 May 2012 18:34:47 -0400

Riveting piece on data centers

bridgegrowth:

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Ugh, this is every business owner’s nightmare. Just...

Thu, 10 May 2012 18:33:54 -0400

Ugh, this is every business owner’s nightmare. Just looking at this makes me sweat.

chelitomendoza:

Jajajajajajajajaja la ultima tecnologiarz po washo XD.

Wow this is impressive, looks like they will need a few portable...

Thu, 10 May 2012 18:32:58 -0400

Wow this is impressive, looks like they will need a few portable air conditioner units to cool this monster down.

fuckyeahdatacenters:

The Kraken

Located at University of Tennessee in Knoxville, the Kraken supercomputer is part of a $65M National Science Foundation grant. It is the world’s first academic supercomputer to reach a landmark performance of more than 1 thousand trillion operations per second.

Kraken Cray XT5 system specifications:
- Cray Linux Environment (CLE) 3.1
- A peak performance of 1.17 PetaFLOP
- 112,896 compute cores
- 147 TB of compute memory
- A 3.3 PB raw parallel file system of disk storage for scratch space (2.4 PB available)
- 9,408 compute nodes

Each node has:
- Two 2.6 GHz six-core AMD Opteron processors (Istanbul)
- 12 cores
- 16 GB of memory
- Connection via Cray SeaStar2+ router

fuckyeahdatacenters: AT&T graphic for a data center in...

Thu, 10 May 2012 18:31:38 -0400

fuckyeahdatacenters:

AT&T graphic for a data center in Singapore

I just noticed something… this is the big head in (data center) cloud and little people theme!