SCHEDULE: NOV 12-18, 2011

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“Hot” for Warm-Water Cooling

SESSION: “Hot” for Warm-Water Cooling

EVENT TYPE: Birds of a Feather

TIME: 5:30PM - 7:00PM

SESSION LEADER(S):William Tschudi, David Martinez, Farhad Banisadr

ROOM:WSCC 613/614

ABSTRACT:
About half of an air-cooled data-center's energy consumption is wasted on powering the cooling systems that keep the computer system from overheating. Furthermore, the amount of heat dissipated by future supercomputers limits the practicality of air-cooling. Liquid-cooling is key to reducing cooling energy consumption for future supercomputers because the heat capacity and transfer efficiency of liquids is orders of magnitude greater than that of air. The transition from air to liquid-cooling is a technology inflection point providing an opportunity to set guidelines for energy efficiency of liquid-cooled facilities and systems. Substituting vapor-compression refrigeration systems with cooling towers or dry coolers that provide warmer water to supercomputers is the natural progression towards energy conservation. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Supercomputing Laboratories are working collaboratively with industry representatives to develop guidelines for warmer liquid-cooling temperatures to guide future supercomputer procurements, and to facilitate the design of warmer temperature cooling systems.

Session Leader Details:

William Tschudi (Primary Session Leader) - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

David Martinez (Secondary Session Leader) - Sandia National Laboratories

Farhad Banisadr (Secondary Session Leader) - Los Alamos National Laboratory

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