29 Mar
2008
29 Mar
'08
11:17 a.m.
page 10 and 11 of <http://www.panduit.com/products/brochures/105309.pdf> says there's a way to move 20kW of heat away from a rack if your normal CRAC is moving 10kW (it depends on that basic air flow), permitting six blade servers in a rack. panduit licensed this tech from IBM a couple of years ago. i am intrigued by the possible drop in total energy cost per delivered kW, though in practice most datacenters can't get enough utility and backup power to run at this density. if "cooling doors" were to take off, we'd see data centers partitioned off and converted to cubicles. -- Paul Vixie