Posted Oct 28, 2011, by Robin Bornoff
What do you call someone who doesn’t believe in Father Christmas? A rebel without a Claus. Right, that’s that out of the way. This week Facebook announced that it plans to build a 300,000 ft^2 data center in Lulea, Sweden. The Lulea business agency who helped attract Facebook to their city are dutifully excited as should Facebook be as they look set to capitalise on 10 months each year of … Read More
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data center cooling,
data centre,
Data Center,
HVAC,
PUE,
Electronics Cooling,
FloVENT
Posted Aug 10, 2010, by Robin Bornoff
The internet is big. It’s not sentient yet, though Robert Swayer has written a compelling story of how it might ‘Wake‘. In fact it’s far from intelligent at all. Banal comments about “how we ever managed without it” will age so quickly that future historians will assume a typo, more intelligence than we currently have and take the phrase to have been “how did we ever manage with it”.
It looks like … Read More
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data center cooling,
data centre,
Data Center,
FloVENT,
HVAC,
data centre cooling,
Electronics Cooling
Posted Jun 23, 2010, by John Wilson
CFD is a powerful design tool when considering a data center cooling scheme. With CFD you can display contour plots of temperature, speed, and for the purists there is pressure. I, perhaps naively, have always considered pressure to be a means to an end. I can absolutely see the value of pressure in terms of “pressure drop” but for me to look at a contour plot of pressure at a room level and deduce … Read More
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CFD,
Data Center,
Capture Index
Posted May 25, 2010, by Nazita Saye
I just about fell out of my chair when I heard about a new trend in using alternative or green sources of energy for data center cooling. Apparently, the good folks at HP recently released a research paper on the use of cattle waste as a source of power for cooling data centers. No, seriously. The NY Times ran a story about the research paper and said that “according to HP’s calculations, 10,000 cows … Read More
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Data Center,
data center cooling,
CFD,
Simulation
Posted Apr 19, 2010, by John Parry
I’ve been remiss in not posting for a couple of weeks, so I’m trying to get back in the saddle. I’ve been working on other things that have taken up a fair bit of time. One is a web seminar on heatsinks – Heatsink 201 – Even More about Heat Sinks which follows on from Alexandra Francois-Saint-Cyr’s very successful Heat Sink 101 web seminar.
Back in March I posted about IBM’s work on liquid cooling … Read More
Tags:
FloVENT,
FloTHERM,
Google,
ASHRAE,
Building HVAC,
Air Cooling,
Green building design,
Data Center,
Liquid Cooling,
Electronics Cooling,
CFD,
Thermal Management,
Cost Saving
Posted Mar 4, 2010, by Nazita Saye
We are all familiar with the industrial revolution – a period where major changes in the way we did stuff (whether it was food production, manufacturing, moving from point A to point B … pretty much everything we did) impacted not only the economy but also our culture as well. So imagine my surprise when I heard on the radio that we are smack-dab in the middle of the next industrial revolution.
Gain … Read More
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Passenger Comfort,
Parking Structures,
Ventilation,
CFD,
Data Center,
Built Environment,
Green,
Office Building,
Design,
Environmental Impact
Posted Jan 23, 2010, by John Wilson
I think that we can all agree that one feature of CFD over test is the ability to visualize where the flow is going. It is quite easy in CFD analysis tools, at least in our tools, to seed the flow any where within the solution and follow particles upstream and/or downstream. The limitation of this is that it is the results are qualitative. CFD has the capability, without an extreme amount of extra … Read More
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Flow Visualization,
CFD,
Concentration,
Capture Index,
FloEFD,
FloVENT,
Data Center,
Electronics Cooling
Posted Dec 12, 2009, by John Wilson
When a person describes their ideal design software, or any software for that matter, Ease-of-Use is always on the list of desirable attributes. It makes sense that in order to be productive with the software in the shortest amount of time the software must be easy to use. All of the CAD and CFD tools I work with strive to achieve this goal (except for one which I won’t name and it isn’t one of our … Read More
Tags:
Data Center,
Ease of Use,
CFD,
Thermal Design,
Electronics Cooling,
PCB
Posted Jul 28, 2009, by Nazita Saye
When talking about increasing energy efficiency in a data center, a lot of people stop listening because the issue of sacrificing uptime always rears up its head . Uptime should not even be a topic of discussion. It should be a given. Even in this day and age, many facilities just leave the thermostat at a low level because it’s a safe bet. But it’s not necessarily the right thing to do for the environment. … Read More
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Energy,
Simulation,
Physical Prototype,
CFD,
Airflow,
Data Center,
Efficient,
Environmental Impact
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