[103245] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: rack power question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derrick)
Mon Mar 24 00:40:22 2008
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:39:24 -0400
From: Derrick <derrick@anei.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <B59ABE8F45F6C4458C5AAB0F6F17DEEB0CFEB0@store1.hq.nac.net>
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About 8 months ago we were faced with an expansion issue where our
datacenter upgrade was delayed due to permits. At the time sun had just
announced their blackbox, now called the S20. During the road trip I got
to walk through one of these. I found the cooling aspect to be very
interesting. It works on front to back cooling but has what I would call
radiators are sandwiched between each set of racks. From my
non-technical point of view on HVAC this seemed to reduce a large amount
of wasted cooling seen in large room datacenters. Is this something we
might see in future fixed datacenters or is this limited to the portable
data center due to technical limitations ? Due to cost we didn't get to
use one but I found the idea very interesting.
Derrick
