Title :
Design of data centre rack arrangements using open source software
Author :
Summers, J. ; Kapur, N. ; Thompson, H.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Eng. Thermofluids, Surfaces & Interfaces, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Abstract :
In the design of a data centre (DC), engineers are increasingly using specialized commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software packages to predict thermal loads for various cooling configurations. This paper is the first to demonstrate how a set of open source software tools, namely OpenFOAM, Octave and paraview can be used to simulate and visualize the airflow in a real live 55kW private DC, with a particular focus on energy savings and reduction of hotspots.
Keywords :
air conditioning; computational fluid dynamics; computer centres; data visualisation; digital simulation; public domain software; Octave; OpenFOAM; airflow simulation; airflow visualization; computational fluid dynamics; cooling configuration; data centre design; data centre rack arrangement; energy savings; hotspot reduction; open source software tools; paraview; specialized commercial CFD software package; thermal load; Atmospheric modeling; Boundary conditions; Computational fluid dynamics; Data models; Mathematical model; Open source software; Servers; Data centre airflow; OpenFOAM; computational fluid dynamics; open source software;
Conference_Titel :
Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium (SEMI-THERM), 2013 29th Annual IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6427-0
Electronic_ISBN :
1065-2221
DOI :
10.1109/SEMI-THERM.2013.6526804
