THE CHILL OFF

 

What are we trying to accomplish?

  • Expand on 2007-08 Chill Off testing
  • Compare current cooling technology efficiencies with compute loads between 6kW-30kW/per cabinet
  • Compare cooling performance w/ higher air inlet, varying supply water temperatures, & varying/mixed work load
  • Compare vertical vs horizontal compute scaling
  • Compare powering-off vs power-throttling of servers
  • A controlled test environment that will enable equal comparative testing between the different solutions
  • Publish an industry report on the findings
  • Continue to foster the cooperative and innovative work of the SVLG datacenter demonstrative projects

 

 

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Contributions

The following companies have contributed immensely to the construction and setup of the Chill Off test environment

               
               
          

 

  • OSIsoft (Complete data collection and reporting system)
  • Redwood City Electric (Electrical installation)
  • Sun Microsystems (PDUs)
  • eBay (servers and workload simulation)
  • SynapSense (Remote sensors)
  • Western Allied (engineering and labor for mechanical, CW infrastructure)
  • California Hydronics (chilled water pump donation)
  • Norman Wright Mechanical Equipment Corp (VFD donation)
  • F Rodgers Insulation & Specialty Contractor (Pipe insulation materials and labor)
  • ServerTech (Rack PDUs)