Wednesday, May 12, 2010 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Power consumption will be the number one issue for most large company IT executives to address in the next 2 – 4 years. According to Bapat, $18.5 billion is the amount of money spent on data center power in 2005. In 2012, the amount will increase to $250 billion if nothing is changed.
The insatiable demand for higher density rack load applications has become a driving force for data center managers to keep pace with power demands, real estate constraints, and acoustic noise levels. At the same time, they must address and accomplish eco-sustainability requirements today and in the future.
In this presentation, the speaker will describe how modular cooling solutions can provide an end to end system that can reduce cooling costs by up to 50 percent compared to conventional cooling methods. He will discuss how this option is an extremely efficient means of transporting heat generated by computer servers and ATCA telecommunications gear (waste heat) from each cabinet or rack within a central office or data center to the location’s heat sink, typically a chilled water system. This advance in cooling technology provides increased space utilization by allowing more equipment per individual cabinet and more cabinets per data center with minimal impact on ambient air temperature. The modular cooling solution is 11 to 40 times more efficient in transporting “waste heat” than conventional air-based computer room air conditioning (CRAC) units. Modular cooling uses refrigerant and a two-phase process instead of ambient air to transport “waste heat”. The refrigerant is maintained above the dew point temperature to minimize or completely eliminate the potential for condensation to accumulate on evaporators or refrigerant supply and return lines.
This presentation will cover:
• Improving cooling capacity and lowering power consumption of cooling systems.
• Efficiently cooling “isolated” high power cabinets
• Addressing eco-sustainability requirements and Issues