HPhas announced the largest ever
deployment of its Dynamic SmartCooling technologyin a
next-generation research datacentre located in
Bangalore.
HP Labs wants to demonstrate the scaling of its cooling
technology in a "real-world", heterogeneous datacentre
environment.
The centre can already demonstrate a 20% reduction in cooling
power consumption, and once fully optimised the centre is expected
to save 7,500 megawatt-hours annually - equal to the power
consumption of more than 750 homes - and reduce carbon-dioxide
emissions by about 7,500 tonnes annually, said HP.
The project involved consolidating 14 lab data centres located
in Bangalore into a high-density, 70,000 square-foot datacentre,
one of the largest in India.
The datacentre is composed of a mix of older legacy equipment
and newer server racks and blades, which is common for IT
environments deployed in production today.
Real-time datacentre air-temperature measurements are obtained
from a network of 7,500 sensors deployed on the IT racks - the most
ever deployed in a single datacentre, said HP.
A management system linked to the sensors responds to facility
failures, anomalies and brown outs.
When fully optimised, HP said the datacentre is expected to
yield up to a 40% reduction in energy consumption compared with
today's typical datacentre cooling methods.