The data center of tomorrow is characterized as one containing a dense aggregation of commodity computing, networking and storage hardware mounted in industry standard racks. In fact, the data center is a computer. The walls of the data center are akin to the walls of the chassis in today’s computer system. The new slim rack mounted systems and blade servers enable reduction in the footprint of today’s data center by 66%. While maximizing computing per unit area, this compaction leads to extremely high power density and high cost associated with removal of the dissipated heat. Today’s approach of cooling the entire data center to a constant temperature sampled at a single location, irrespective of the distributed utilization, is too energy inefficient. We propose a smart cooling system that provides localized cooling when and where needed and works in conjunction with a compute workload allocator to distribute compute workloads in the most energy efficient state. This paper shows a vision and construction of this intelligent data center that uses a combination of modeling, metrology and control to provision the air conditioning resources and workload distribution. A variable cooling system comprising variable capacity computer room air conditioning units, variable air moving devices, adjustable vents, etc. are used to dynamically allocate air conditioning resources where and when needed. A distributed metrology layer is used to sense environment variables like temperature and pressure, and power. The data center energy manager redistributes the compute workloads based on the most energy efficient availability of cooling resources and vice versa. The distributed control layer is no longer associated with any single localized temperature measurement but based on parameters calculated from an aggregation of sensors. The compute resources not in use are put on “standby” thereby providing added savings.
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ASME 2003 International Electronic Packaging Technical Conference and Exhibition
July 6–11, 2003
Maui, Hawaii, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Electronic and Photonic Packaging Division
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0-7918-3690-8
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Smart Cooling of Data Centers
Chandrakant D. Patel,
Chandrakant D. Patel
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
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Cullen E. Bash,
Cullen E. Bash
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
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Ratnesh Sharma,
Ratnesh Sharma
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
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Monem Beitelmal,
Monem Beitelmal
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
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Rich Friedrich
Rich Friedrich
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
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Chandrakant D. Patel
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
Cullen E. Bash
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
Ratnesh Sharma
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
Monem Beitelmal
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
Rich Friedrich
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
Paper No:
IPACK2003-35059, pp. 129-137; 9 pages
Published Online:
January 5, 2009
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Patel, CD, Bash, CE, Sharma, R, Beitelmal, M, & Friedrich, R. "Smart Cooling of Data Centers." Proceedings of the ASME 2003 International Electronic Packaging Technical Conference and Exhibition. 2003 International Electronic Packaging Technical Conference and Exhibition, Volume 2. Maui, Hawaii, USA. July 6–11, 2003. pp. 129-137. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/IPACK2003-35059
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