January 11, 2016 at 19:06Saving on square meters. Multi-Storey Server Farm
There is a demand for sites for the deployment of server farms in densely populated cities. But here the problem arises of how to fit such a data center in an urban area where every free patch of land is a scarce resource.
The company Vert from Quebec has recently found an approach to solving such problems as lack of space, and has already received a US patent for a multi-storey modular data center. Project managers are promoting the idea of building multi-story server farms. The name "vert" in the two national languages of Canada directly expresses the concept of the server farm itself, in French it means green, and in English it is vertical. Under the project, it is planned to build a plot of land with an area of 112 square meters.
On the ground floor, it is planned to place all the electrical and mechanical systems of the server farm, and to arrange the halls on 4 floors higher, since the design allows this. Each machine room will house up to 120 mounting racks with IT equipment. The movement of the flow of chilled air through several floors will be organized.
“Our small buildings in terms of space are not inferior in efficiency to the server farms of Google or Facebook. Quebec can use free-cooling ten months a year, and this will help achieve a PUE energy efficiency ratio of 1.11. ”Says marketing director Savard.
To create a data center using quick-assembly modules. Such modules will be delivered to the server farm location using standard trucks.
The inspiration for using this approach in the construction of the data center was facilitated by the five-story Marilyn data center in Paris.
A unique vertical city data center with 200 racks, a total of 8,000 servers. Fault-tolerant architecture, zero cooling water consumption, hot cold corridors were created. PUE is 1.3, up to 15 kVA is used per rack.
Philippe Savard, marketing director for Vert, Canada, says the company is currently working with three clients in Montreal. A project has already been launched to build a fairly powerful data center in a Canadian city, but work was suspended due to engineering difficulties associated with the underground highway running under the construction site.
When creating their patented concept of a multi-storey modular server farm, Vert engineers used the experience gained while working on Clumeq. Vert modules are an attempt to create ready-made data centers like Clumeq.
Clumeq is a cylindrical megawatt concrete supercomputer. Then in 2008 the equipment was placed in the concrete building of McGill University (Quebec). Cooling systems were located underground, above them - several floors with machinery. The building was later transformed into a giant CRAC unit. At the same time, the core of the supercomputer remains hot, and the external environment is cold, and the exhaust air serves to heat water for the needs of the campus.
Here, a highly efficient cooling concept was used, which made it possible to bring the density of computing nodes to a level of 30 kW per mounting rack without the need for installation of cooling systems and in-line air conditioners.
Centercore multi-storey modular data center designed and built by Fidelity Investments.
12-story server farm (near Seattle, WA).
By tradition, there is a bit of advertising in the basement, where it will not hurt anyone. We remind you that due to the fact that the total network capacity of the Dutch data center in which we provide services has reached 5 Tbps (58 points of presence, inclusion in 36 exchange points, in more than 20 countries and 4,213 peer-to-peer inclusions ), we offer dedicated servers for rent at incredibly low prices, only a week!
The company Vert from Quebec has recently found an approach to solving such problems as lack of space, and has already received a US patent for a multi-storey modular data center. Project managers are promoting the idea of building multi-story server farms. The name "vert" in the two national languages of Canada directly expresses the concept of the server farm itself, in French it means green, and in English it is vertical. Under the project, it is planned to build a plot of land with an area of 112 square meters.
On the ground floor, it is planned to place all the electrical and mechanical systems of the server farm, and to arrange the halls on 4 floors higher, since the design allows this. Each machine room will house up to 120 mounting racks with IT equipment. The movement of the flow of chilled air through several floors will be organized.
“Our small buildings in terms of space are not inferior in efficiency to the server farms of Google or Facebook. Quebec can use free-cooling ten months a year, and this will help achieve a PUE energy efficiency ratio of 1.11. ”Says marketing director Savard.
To create a data center using quick-assembly modules. Such modules will be delivered to the server farm location using standard trucks.
The inspiration for using this approach in the construction of the data center was facilitated by the five-story Marilyn data center in Paris.
A unique vertical city data center with 200 racks, a total of 8,000 servers. Fault-tolerant architecture, zero cooling water consumption, hot cold corridors were created. PUE is 1.3, up to 15 kVA is used per rack.
Philippe Savard, marketing director for Vert, Canada, says the company is currently working with three clients in Montreal. A project has already been launched to build a fairly powerful data center in a Canadian city, but work was suspended due to engineering difficulties associated with the underground highway running under the construction site.
When creating their patented concept of a multi-storey modular server farm, Vert engineers used the experience gained while working on Clumeq. Vert modules are an attempt to create ready-made data centers like Clumeq.
Clumeq is a cylindrical megawatt concrete supercomputer. Then in 2008 the equipment was placed in the concrete building of McGill University (Quebec). Cooling systems were located underground, above them - several floors with machinery. The building was later transformed into a giant CRAC unit. At the same time, the core of the supercomputer remains hot, and the external environment is cold, and the exhaust air serves to heat water for the needs of the campus.
Here, a highly efficient cooling concept was used, which made it possible to bring the density of computing nodes to a level of 30 kW per mounting rack without the need for installation of cooling systems and in-line air conditioners.
Here are a few server farms that were built on the principle of high-rise:
Centercore multi-storey modular data center designed and built by Fidelity Investments.
12-story server farm (near Seattle, WA).
By tradition, there is a bit of advertising in the basement, where it will not hurt anyone. We remind you that due to the fact that the total network capacity of the Dutch data center in which we provide services has reached 5 Tbps (58 points of presence, inclusion in 36 exchange points, in more than 20 countries and 4,213 peer-to-peer inclusions ), we offer dedicated servers for rent at incredibly low prices, only a week!