Greening Data Centres and Storage

19th Nov 2010 00:00

Lower College Hall
University of St Andrews
19th November 2010

Both HPC and conventional servers, and on-line storage devices, consume large amounts of electricity directly, and typically may use as much again in cooling, power supply equipment and other ‘overhead’ activities. The SusteIT report estimated that their energy costs were over £20 million in 2009, and that this is likely to increase as a result of rising prices. New costs are also likely as a result of carbon regulation. Increased compute and storage activities may also create additional energy demand.

This free workshop will examine practical actions to reduce this energy consumption. The morning profiles the design and implementation of the University of St Andrews’ new Data Centre, which is anticipated to have a very low Power Utilisation Effectiveness (PUE) index of 1.2. Key features include high efficiency UPS, hot aisle containment, free cooling, and potential heat recovery. The afternoon broadens the discussion to examine generic issues such as high efficiency cooling, heat recovery and energy storage.

The workshop is organised by HEEPI’s JISC financed SusteIT project and it’s programme on greening scientific computing, in association with the Association of University Directors of Estates (AUDE) and Salix Finance.

Please book at www.goodcampus.org Events section.