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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
We ran fully on internal mechanical systems last week due to a scheduled central chilled water plant shutdown. See how ATS3's electrical load jumped up around midnight.
What's really strange is the correlated dip in ATS2 and jump for ATS3 on Tuesday. The dip is about 5 kW (which we think ...
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Now that the electrical metering is in place, we have some early graphs of power use over time:
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
PUE = Total Facility Load / IT Load
IT Load = 250kW (pp1,2,3,4,5,6,16) + 40kW (pp26,27) = 290kW
Total Facility Load (winter w/o chw) = 290kW (IT) + 50kW (ATS2) + 85kW (ATS3 lieberts w/o chw) = 425kW
Total Facility Load (w/chw) = 290kW (IT) + ??kW (ATS2) + 50kW (ATS3 lieberts w/chw) ...
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
Columbia project team members will be participating in the NSF-sponsored workshop on High Performance Computing Center Sustainability May 3-5 at Cornell Univeristy.
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
The IBM/Syracuse University Green Data Center was the subject of a full page ad in last weeks' NY Times.
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Monday, November 30th, 2009
Wattnodes for all power panels in CC 200 have been installed and data
is being collected by Nagios and Cricket.
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Latest EQ Issue is on Green IT
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Saturday, July 18th, 2009
See: http://hightech.lbl.gov/dc-epc.html
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
The DC Pro tools have been updated to include evaluation of air handling and electrical distribution and have lots of good documentation and examples.
See: http://www1.eere.energy.gov/industry/saveenergynow/dc_pro.html
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
The first Wattnode was installed in Power Panel 2 and connected to a Babel Buster SPX for conversion of MODBUS to SNMP. This device will be tested and installed in all power panels in our Data Center.
Installation will be organized in 4 stages:
7 panels on north wall
10 panels on ...
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Green Data Center Webcast by Julius Neudorfer of NAAT
http://whitepapers.businessweek.com/detail/RES/1243954119_914.html
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Saturday, May 16th, 2009
The Raritan PDU will allow metering power usage of old servers via SNMP.
[caption id="attachment_30" align="alignright" width="225" caption="CUIT selected the Raritan PDU device to monitor server electrical usage"][/caption]
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
http://www.amazon.com/Greening-companies-make-difference-environment/dp/0137150830/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1228593472&sr=1-12
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
http://news.columbia.edu/pressroom/1544
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
2. Use SNMP to track power usage
... IT managers can turn on SNMP polling across various devices, such as light systems, and monitor power usage and thermostat levels without investing in power monitoring tools....
See: http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/04/02/diy-tips-how-cut-costs-and-get-more-your-it-gear
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Saturday, April 11th, 2009
See http://sicortex.com/green_index
On the GCPI page, you'll see the HP BL2x220C comes in 4th place, after SiCortex, SGI and IBM Blue Gene/P. The SGI appears to be Intel architecture (Xeon X5472) while the others ahead of the HP are special purpose -- SiCortex Ice9, PowerPC 450.
CUIT may plan on running ...
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_factor
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) Advanced Concept Data Center Pilot project will implement selected improvements in the University’s Morningside Data Center while also providing rigorous before-and-after-measurements to assure achievement of anticipated energy savings. NYSERDA has awarded the University a grant which, when matched with ...
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
The proposed HP solution of a blade center chassis c7000 with 16 BL2x220C blades (32 dual-quad core servers) takes 50% of the space and consumes 30% less power than comparable manufacturer's products.
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