IBM's POWER6 high performance water cooled cluster at NCAR -Infrastructure design

Proceedings of the ASME InterPack Conference 2009, IPACK2009

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 863-873

  Schmidt, Roger ^a   Ellsworth, Mike ^a   Iyengar, Madhu ^a   New, Gary ^b  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bluefire; Data center; Hydro cluster; NCAR; POWER6; Rear door heat exchanger; Water cooled

Indexed keywords

BLUEFIRE; CHILLED WATER; DATA CENTER; DATA CENTERS; GREEN TECHNOLOGY; HEAT LOADS; HYDRO CLUSTER; INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN; IT EQUIPMENT; LIQUID COOLING TECHNOLOGY; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; POTENTIAL FAILURE MODES; POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; SEVERE WEATHER; THERMAL STORAGE; TIME RESPONSE; UNIX SERVERS; WATER COOLING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DOORS; ELECTRIC LOAD DISTRIBUTION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT STORAGE; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; WATER COOLING SYSTEMS;

WATER TANKS;

EID: 77953941098     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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