> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/20/google_greywater_data_center_cooling/
I grew up in a city cooled by a central evaporative water-chilling plant, so I'm always surprised how unusual this sort of project is. does anyone have comments on how to enable/encourage/foster less conventional datacenter engineering? I've participated in two DC projects, and both went with safe, boring and inefficient solutions, simply because power costs weren't high enough to motivate any deviation from utter conventionality. power costs are somewhat hidden on uni campuses, and people involved are very, extremely, hyper-risk-averse... I suppose part of the problem is in retrofitting a green DC into existing buildings - it's a lot easier if you can plan a new building to, for instance, take advantage of waste heat. I'm also interested in anyone who is currently running clusters at higher than conventional/ASHRAE temperatures. thanks, mark hahn. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
