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IDC to Unveil Results of Groundbreaking HPC Power and Cooling Study at DICE Alliance 2009
“This is a groundbreaking study,” said Joseph. “Power and cooling demands are in many cases restricting the growth of supercomputers and their storage systems. A study this comprehensive offers insights and has implications for the future ideas and solutions that will help guide HPC data centers and HPC vendors as they make plans for growing their supercomputing capacity and capability.”
The study, a collaborative effort between IDC and Avetec’s HPC Research Division, the Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE), is the first-ever comprehensive study on power and cooling technologies as applied specifically to HPC supercomputer centers. It presents new information and insights from HPC data centers in government, industry and academia, as well as from vendors around the world. Many of the survey respondents are Top 500 Supercomputer Sites.
The study also explores which trends and requirements present the greatest challenges to designing future cooling and power-efficient HPC data centers and systems, how important “green” design criteria are to future HPC planning, and what alternative, forward-looking approaches are being explored to meet future HPC power and cooling requirements.
“We are really looking forward to Earl Joseph’s presentation and the power and cooling panel discussion at DICE Alliance,” said Avetec Chief Information Officer Al Stutz. “The study’s findings touch on everything from new technologies to HPC public policy, and we’re looking forward to discussing those findings with others from the HPC community.”
Avetec’s DICE Alliance 2009 will be held May 18-20 at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. Other topics to be discussed at the conference include Public Policy in HPC, Information Lifecycle Management and Parallel File Systems Benchmarking and Evaluation. Plan to attend the industry’s premier data management conference where industry, government and academia meet to network, exchange ideas and work together to break through data management bottlenecks.
To register for the conference visit www.diceprogram.org or call 937.322.5000.
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