2012
IMAACA 2012 Proceeding
CFD modeling of thermal distribution in industrial server centers for configuration optimisation and control
Authors: Pierre-Luc Paradis, Drishtysingh Ramdenee, Adrian Ilinca, Hussein Ibrahim, Abderrazak El-Ouafi, Jean-Sébastien Deschênes, Alexandre Boudreau, Daniel Rousse
Abstract
Industries and institutions are more and more prone to be equipped with servers to control all required computational and communication tasks. In many cases where the computational requirements of tasks or where data management are enormous, the need for proper configuration of the server cabinets is important to optimize cooling mechanisms and to improve energy efficiency. Specialized software are presently available to model new server centers with optimized configuration. However, there are no clear guidelines in the literature on the best way to build datacenter and on how you could increase efficiency of existing server center. In this paper, we present a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model made use to evaluate different solutions of cooling in data center and to write guidelines to help owners to improve efficiency of their buildings. Then a look is taken to control strategy that could be develop with those simulations.
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