Power Monitoring 101: Supervisory, Connectivity and Protection Options That Add An Umbrella of Protection Over Your Entire IT Infrastructure
[ Source: Eaton ]
August 2009-
Monitoring options are now available for organizations of any size. You can remotely monitor and manage a single uninterruptible power system (UPS), an enterprise-wide network of many UPSs and power distribution devices, or a complete IT support infrastructure, including generators, environmental systems and detection devices, and other components from multiple vendors.
This white paper discusses the imperatives of intelligent power monitoring.
Strategies for ensuring clean, continuous power to essential IT systems
[ Source: Eaton ]
September 2009-
Data centers rely on a continuous supply of clean electricity. However, anything from a subtle power system design flaw to a failure in the electrical grid can easily bring down even the most modern and sophisticated data center.
Fortunately, organizations can significantly mitigate their exposure to power-related downtime by adopting proven changes to their business processes and electrical power system management practices.
This white paper discusses 10 such underutilized best practices for building ....
Energy Logic: Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption by Creating Savings that Cascade Across Systems
[ Source: Emerson Network Power ]
August 2009-
This paper introduces the concept of the “cascade effect” and describes how it can be used to cut data center energy costs by 50% or more. Emerson Network Power came up with this vendor-neutral roadmap for optimizing data center efficiency, called Energy Logic, by applying the top ten energy-saving opportunities to a 5,000-square-foot data center model based on real-world technologies and operating parameters.
Outlining this sequential approach to reducing energy costs, this paper includes ....
Calculating and Prioritizing Your Data Center IT Efficiency Actions
[ Source: Emerson Network Power ]
July 2009-
The lack of a true data center efficiency metric is challenging to IT and data center managers as they try to justify much needed IT investments to management. To help quantify data center efficiency, Emerson Network Power introduces in this paper CUPS, or Compute Units per Second. Similar to miles-per-gallon metric in the automobile industry, CUPS is meant to represent the “performance” of the data center.
Using the Energy Logic analysis and the CUPS-based ....
Strategies to create a state-of-the-art data center
[ Source: Emerson Network Power ]
August 2009-
ISC Corp., a provider of advanced technology solutions, had been experiencing business growth which prompted the creation of a new data center to support continuous availability for its IT and telephony systems. The company’s goal was also to design and equip its new data center to serve as a dramatic, state-of-the-art sales tool promoting its capabilities as well as those of its technology partners. Emerson Network Power and its Liebert power and cooling technologies was ....
Focused Cooling Using Cold Aisle Containment
[ Source: Emerson Network Power ]
June 2009-
As heat densities and cooling costs rise, data center professionals are looking for more efficient cooling solutions. This paper discusses the benefits of using both the hot and cold aisle approach, but focuses on the latter option as an effective method for eliminating data center hot spots and reducing overall cooling costs by as much as 30%.
Discover how cold aisle containment, as an addition to a conventional precision cooling system, consistently separates ....
Using a High-Performance Computing Solution to Optimize Product Design
[ Source: Hewlett-Packard ]
January 2008-
Optimizing a product design early on eliminates the expense of building and testing multiple prototypes and reduces changes late in the manufacturing cycle. Design Chain Accelerator (DCA) is a high-performance computing solution for enhancing product-development processes in industries such as aerospace, automotive, and general manufacturing. Complex systems in disciplines such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD), structural analysis, and crashes can be simulated before expensive prototyping beginsallowing cost-effective optimization of product designs. For products involving complex ....
ACRES Architecture and Compilation
[ Source: Hewlett-Packard ]
January 2008-
High-performance computing engines often provide product-defining functionality within consumer devices. These devices are traditionally implemented using either ASICs or embedded processors. ASICS are inflexible and require high design cost while embedded processors provide inadequate compute power and efficiency for specialized applications. This work describes the ACRES platform that combines the flexibility of a programmable technology and the efficiency of custom hardware without incurring high-cost, high- risk chip development. The ACRES platform consists of programmable computing ....
High-Performance Computing Solution to Optimize Product Design
[ Source: Hewlett-Packard ]
January 2008-
Design Chain Accelerator (DCA) improves product development by delivering superior high-performance product development solutions for manufacturers, such as those in the automotive and aerospace industries. Streamlining the manufacturing process with precision and reliability, DCA helps companies develop products that sell based on sound design principles. It reduces costly design errors by helping solve the most extreme engineering simulation problems, including Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), crash, and structural simulations, before committing the design to manufacturing.
Blue Gene/L Torus Interconnection Network
[ Source: IBM ]
January 2008-
One of the most important features of an extraordinarily parallel supercomputer is the network that connects the processors together and allows the machine to operate as a large coherent entity. In Blue Gene/L (BG/L), the primary network for point-to-point messaging is a three-dimensional (3D) torus network. The main traverse of the massively parallel Blue Genet/L is a three-dimensional torus network with dynamic virtual cut-through routing. This paper describes both the architecture and the microarchitecture of ....