Sandia Adopts Unique Cooling Approach

Data Center Knowledge (Nov 1 2011) Servers

1. When David Martinez wanted to discuss his concept for cooling the Red Sky supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratories, he had trouble finding anyone who could offer him guidance. “It turns out no one had ever done this (in a data center), so we had no one to talk to about how to do it,” said Martinez, a Distinguished Technologist for Computer Infrastructure & Operations at the Department of Energy lab in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Raised Floor Meets the Glacier Door His idea: develop a cooling system that combined the use of traditional raised-floor air cooling with refrigerant-cooled rear door heat exchangers. Martinez wanted to use an approach known as “laminar air flow,” in which cool air from a single perforated floor tile is drawn through a series of cabinets with rear-door cooling units, extending the effectiveness of both systems. So Martinez went ahead and built it, and shared about his experience ... (Read Full Article)

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