Wednesday, June 28, 2017: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Fundamentals and Applications
Chair:
Nick Gangemi, Northern Air Systems
Technical Committee: 9.9 Mission Critical Facilities, Data Centers, Technology Spaces and Electronic Equipment
This seminar presents critical information to improve alignment between future data center needs and IT equipment power and cooling requirements. In today’s environment, customers are pivoting to purpose built IT equipment solutions designed for a specific type of workload resulting in distinct power ranges and power trend trajectories. In order to obtain more accurate power range projections, this update to the ASHRAE Datacom Equipment Power Trends and Cooling Applications delineates ITE power ranges and power trend trajectories as a function of workload type, server features and configuration, as well as server size. In this update, this segregation is discussed.
1 Datacom Equipment Workloads, Configurations and Applications
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Matt Archibald, Lenovo |
In today’s environment volume servers are commonly designed for specific workload types. As a result, in the updated edition of the ASHRAE Datacom Equipment Power Trends and Cooling Applications publication, volume servers and their corresponding power trends are segregated into eight unique workload types. This is a significant change from the 2nd edition which delineated the power trends only by server size and the number of sockets. In addition, servers are no longer one size and one configuration fits all. These purpose-built servers include specific features and components sized to meet a customer’s workload requirements.
2 Datacom Equipment Power Trends
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Susan Smith, Intel Corp |
Volume servers are becoming aligned to specific workload types and server configurations to meet customers’ needs. This translates to an increase in server configurations and potentially significantly different power ranges and power trend trajectories even in the same server size. The distinction of servers by workload type and size provides greater accuracy in projecting the power ranges and trends as compared to server size and number of sockets as in the 2nd Edition of the ASHRAE Datacom Equipment Power Trends. This session discusses the updated power trends over the next decade as a function of eight unique workload types.
3 Data Center Solutions and Examples
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Jerrod Buterbaugh, Lenovo |
The increasing volume server power trends are making it increasing difficult to properly plan for future space, power and cooling needs in the data. This seminar provides assets to help facility planners better understand how to properly apply the updated ASHRAE Datacom Equipment Power Trends and Cooling Applications data. It discusses trends in airflow requirements and how these relate to the data center capabilities for both air and liquid cooling. Examples of how to use these updated guidelines are presented.