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The Chill-Off, Carbon, GHG, Data Center Efficiency, and the DCP Stack, they're all Linked!

Posted Sat, 10/17/2009 - 09:05 by mark.thiele

On Thursday 10/15/09, several members of the DCP board participated in the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG) Data Center Efficiency event in Sunnyvale at the NetApp campus.

Data Center Pulse work showcased at the SVLG Energy Efficiency Summit



PRESS RELEASE

Data Center Pulse work showcased at the SVLG Energy Efficiency Summit

Data Center Pulse continues toward their goal of influencing the datacenter industry through their exclusive, global end user community.

UNION CITY, CA, June 26, 2009 - Data Center Pulse Inc. (DCP), today announced that it has partnered with the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG) to participate in the 2009 Data Center Energy Efficiency (DCEE) Summit hosted at the NetApp campus in Sunnyvale, CA on October 15, 2009.

The SVLG 2009 DCEE Summit is based on data center demonstration projects showcasing best practices to achieve energy efficiency. The demonstration projects are hosted and led by end users in their own DC environments. Data Center Pulse is championing two efforts at the summit. The first is the Chill Off 2, the largest and most complex SVLG demonstration project comparing different cooling products. The second is the Data Center Pulse standardized data center stack proposal. This framework will allow all datacenters to be compared regardless of industry, tier level, location or design. "We are looking forward to a lively summit where we can discuss this important work.", said Graeme Hay Technical Advisory Board Chair and Data Center Pulse founding board member. "Our members have invested significant time and money into these efforts. They are some of the top priorities for Data Center Pulse.".

THE CHILL OFF 2 (CO2)

In November of 2008, Data Center Pulse started on the Chill Off 2 (CO2), a demonstration project comparing 13 different product solutions and configurations. Products under test include APC, Clustered Systems, IBM, Knuerr, Liebert, Rittal, Sun, and Vette. The Chill Off 2 is an expansion of the first Chill Off which was showcased at the first SVLG Energy Summit in 2008. This years presentation will provide insight into the learnings from this very complicated effort including some intriguing findings and perspectives from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab test engineers and industry leaders . Seven of the 13 test configurations will be completed by the Energy Summit. Final results for CO2 are slated to be published in February 2010.

DATA CENTER STACK FRAMEWORK

Join data center pulse leaders as they discuss and debate the data center stack framework proposal. The goal of this session is to show how different industry architectures overlay on the stack. The goal of the stack is to unite end users by providing a standardized method representing all components, dependencies and interworkings that make up the data center machine. End users want to define how they are compared and ultimately how they can comply uniformly with pending effiiency regulations. The stack framework will allow the users to define and direct the standards rather than having them applied to them.

For more information on these programs email info@datacenterpulse.org.



Third test completed!

Posted Wed, 08/26/2009 - 14:00 by brian.day

I am very happy to announce that we successfully completed the third test in the lineup this past weekend; the Rittal LCP+ solution!  We spent the last two days quickly disconnecting the solution and moving our sensors over to the fourth solution from IBM/Vette Corp.  We had already pre-staged the Vette setup and transitioning over was fairly straightforward.  Today we are experiencing some unexpected issues with the IBM Blade Centers that were moved over and are diagnosing further.  If all goes well w

Do You Feel The Chill?

Posted Wed, 06/10/2009 - 14:54 by geekism

On May 29th, 2009 we officially started the chill off 2 testing!  It has been a long time coming with many technical, financial, and resource barriers we had to overcome.  Imagine trying to organize a band of volunteers who's day jobs and schedules keep them extremely busy in this high tech industry.  We're about 12 weeks behind, but we believe we will be able to make it up with overnight and weekend testing.  Brian Day and team have been driving very hard to ensure that we meet the deadlines for processing and packaging of the results for the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG) Energy Summit scheduled for October 16, 2009 in Silicon Valley.

You can see the first Chill Off testing episode on the Data Center Pulse YouTube Channel (embedded below).  I interviewed Hieko Ebermann, the Global Product Manager for Thermal Products with Knuerr, an Emerson Company, about their CoolTherm product (pdf).  This fully contained solution provides dynamically controlled cooling up to 35kW/rack. Heiko flew in from Dresden, Germany to make sure that everything was in place and operating as expected.  Knuerr are the first vendor in the test.

Make sure to watch the High Definition Video version.  You will be ale to select the HD button after hitting play below.

 

 

As usual, stay tuned for updates through the official Chill Off webpage and blog hosted on Data Center Pulse.  We sincerely appreciate the support and collaboration from all involved in this very important Data Center Test. 

We will be posting entries on all of the companies contributing to this effort.  Stay tuned!

Chill-Off!

Posted Mon, 07/21/2008 - 04:09 by geekism

On April 2, 2007 I met Ray Pfiefer from the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG).  He was soliciting help in datacenter demonstration projects for SVLG.  On May 21, 2007 I signed us up to host a demonstration project to compare cooling products for datacenters.  We were undergoing a major consolidation and had the perfect environment to be able to host these tests.  At that point I didn't realize how much we had signed up for.

 

I'll show you mine...

Posted Mon, 04/21/2008 - 02:46 by geekism

So, how efficient is your datacenter?

 

Last month I received some pretty cool news.  The Chill-Off we have been hosting for the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG) in their datacenter demonstration project, was completed.  This was a head to head test against APC In-Row, Liebert XDV, Spraycool, Rittal Liquid Racks and IBM Rear Door Heat Exchanger. Sun was the host that provided the datacenter, plant, compute equipment, and support.  Lawrence Berkeley National Labs (LBNL) was the group conducting the test on behalf of the California Energy Commission (CEC)  The results from this test will be published in a report in June of this year and we will be hosting the event.

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