Data Center Energy Efficiency by Design
Engineering & Managing Site Infrastructure of the Future
October 28-30, 2007, Santa Fe, NM
Charrette Chair: Kenneth G. Brill , Executive Director of the Uptime Institute
Charrette Co-Moderator: Jonathon Koomey, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The Uptime Institute 2007 Charrette will call on all users and industry stakeholders to undertake a true, “whole-systems-thinking” approach to data center energy efficiency improvements. The Charrette will proceed through three distinctly differentiated tracks. Tracks One and Two explore “whole systems” approaches to electrical and mechanical design that can provide future significant improvements in data-center energy efficiency, but require unprecedented cooperation of both users and hardware vendors. Addressing management issues, Track Three will propose and evaluate four unique, distinguishing characteristics of a truly “green” data center. To maximize the value of the Charrette for your organization, arrange for coverage in each of the three tracks:
- Track One: Electrical Infrastructure Sub-Systems Design: AC vs. DC for Powering IT Hardware
- Track Two: Mechanical Infrastructure Sub-Systems Design: Challenging Computer Room Cooling Assumptions: Re-thinking Requirements
- Track Three: Operations, Business and Finance Metrics, Best Practices, and Process Design: Green Data Center Management Practices: Four Unique Characteristics of a Truly Green Data Center
This newest initiative of the Institute is about the future of large-scale computing, Server Farms and Data Centers. This initiative will lead to the strategic planning and management of IT in such a way that IT can continue to be a full contributor to business growth and continuity, and achieve corporate enterprise energy efficiency and environmental sustainability targets.
Attendee Benefits:
A primary outcome of Charrette will be a reduction in risks to early adopters of new technologies and systems design approaches. This will be done by bringing together the best minds in the uninterruptible data center computing industry to use whole-system thinking to identify risks, consider likely unintended consequences, and inquire into recognized gaps in our knowledge.
The professional, collegial and collaborative work of Charrette:
- Defines the system boundary and reliability/concurrent maintainability constraints that any new design solution must successfully address
- Identifies the energy efficiency and productivity of existing solutions
- Projects the true whole-systems capital investments, operating costs (including energy), and maintenance costs of alternative solutions
- Develops a comprehensive listing of the ideas and solutions developed during the Charrette with pros and cons of each, including listings of:
- The potential reliability
- Partial and full-load energy savings for the most viable solutions
- Identification of barriers to their acceptance
- Risk-mitigation criteria recommendations for early adopters
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