Savings on square meters. Multi-storey server farm
There is a demand for sites for deploying server farms in densely populated cities. But this raises the problem of how to fit such a data center in an urban area, where every free piece of land is a scarce resource.
Vert from Quebec has recently found an approach to solving such a problem 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-storey server farms. The name “vert” in two national languages ​​of Canada directly expresses the concept of the server farm itself, in French it means green, and in English, the vertical. Under the project it is planned to build up a plot of land with an area of ​​112 square meters.
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On the first floor it is supposed to place all the electrical and mechanical systems of the server farm, the machine rooms are located on 4 floors higher, as the construction allows it. Up to 120 installation racks with IT equipment will be placed in each machine hall. The flow of cooled air through several floors will be organized.
“Our small-sized buildings are not inferior in efficiency to Google or Facebook server farms. Quebec can use free-cooling ten months a year, and this will help to 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 location of the server farm using standard trucks.
The inspiration for using such an approach in the construction of the data center contributed to the five-story data center Marilyn in Paris
The unique vertical urban data center, which houses 200 racks, has a total number of servers of 8,000. Fault-tolerant architecture, zero cooling water consumption, hot cold corridors created. PUE is 1.3, up to 15 kVA is used for each rack.
Marketing director of the Canadian firm Vert Philippe Savard says that at the moment the company is already working with three clients in Montreal. The project for the construction of a sufficiently powerful data center in a Canadian city has already been started, but the work was suspended due to engineering difficulties encountered with the underground highway passing under the construction site.
When creating their patented concept of a multi-storey modular server farm, Vert engineers used the insights gained from working on Clumeq. Vert modules are an attempt to create ready-made data centers of the Clumeq type.
Clumeq is a cylindrical megawatted supercomputer in a concrete shell. Then in 2008 the equipment was placed in a concrete building of the McGill University (Quebec). The cooling systems were located underground, above them - several floors with machinery. Later the structure was transformed into a giant block of CRAC. At the same time, the core of the supercomputer remains hot, while the external environment remains cold, and the outgoing air serves to heat the water for the campus needs.
Here, a highly efficient cooling concept was used, which made it possible to bring the density of the computing nodes to a level of 30 kW per mounting rack without the need to install LSS and in-row air conditioners.
Multi-storey modular data center Centercore, designed and built by experts of Fidelity Investments.
12 storey server farm (near Seattle, WA).
According to tradition, a little advertising in the basement, where it does not hurt anyone. We remind you that due to the fact that the total network capacity of the Dutch data center where we provide services has reached 5 Tbit / s (58 points of presence, including 36 points of exchange, in more than 20 countries and 4213 peering inclusions ), we offer dedicated servers for rent at incredibly low prices, just a week!
Vert from Quebec has recently found an approach to solving such a problem 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-storey server farms. The name “vert” in two national languages ​​of Canada directly expresses the concept of the server farm itself, in French it means green, and in English, the vertical. Under the project it is planned to build up a plot of land with an area of ​​112 square meters.
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On the first floor it is supposed to place all the electrical and mechanical systems of the server farm, the machine rooms are located on 4 floors higher, as the construction allows it. Up to 120 installation racks with IT equipment will be placed in each machine hall. The flow of cooled air through several floors will be organized.
“Our small-sized buildings are not inferior in efficiency to Google or Facebook server farms. Quebec can use free-cooling ten months a year, and this will help to 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 location of the server farm using standard trucks.
The inspiration for using such an approach in the construction of the data center contributed to the five-story data center Marilyn in Paris
The unique vertical urban data center, which houses 200 racks, has a total number of servers of 8,000. Fault-tolerant architecture, zero cooling water consumption, hot cold corridors created. PUE is 1.3, up to 15 kVA is used for each rack.
Marketing director of the Canadian firm Vert Philippe Savard says that at the moment the company is already working with three clients in Montreal. The project for the construction of a sufficiently powerful data center in a Canadian city has already been started, but the work was suspended due to engineering difficulties encountered with the underground highway passing under the construction site.
When creating their patented concept of a multi-storey modular server farm, Vert engineers used the insights gained from working on Clumeq. Vert modules are an attempt to create ready-made data centers of the Clumeq type.
Clumeq is a cylindrical megawatted supercomputer in a concrete shell. Then in 2008 the equipment was placed in a concrete building of the McGill University (Quebec). The cooling systems were located underground, above them - several floors with machinery. Later the structure was transformed into a giant block of CRAC. At the same time, the core of the supercomputer remains hot, while the external environment remains cold, and the outgoing air serves to heat the water for the campus needs.
Here, a highly efficient cooling concept was used, which made it possible to bring the density of the computing nodes to a level of 30 kW per mounting rack without the need to install LSS and in-row air conditioners.
Here are a few server farms, which were built on the principle of high-rise:
Multi-storey modular data center Centercore, designed and built by experts of Fidelity Investments.
12 storey server farm (near Seattle, WA).
According to tradition, a little advertising in the basement, where it does not hurt anyone. We remind you that due to the fact that the total network capacity of the Dutch data center where we provide services has reached 5 Tbit / s (58 points of presence, including 36 points of exchange, in more than 20 countries and 4213 peering inclusions ), we offer dedicated servers for rent at incredibly low prices, just a week!
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/371593/
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