Efficient cooling: Sun Modular Datacenter S20
Tuesday Jan 29, 2008
Many Sun blogs talking about Sun Modular Datacenter S20 announcement. What I find very interesting is that the efficiency of cooling is more than 40% better than a traditional data centre. On http://www.sun.com/products/sunmd/s20/features.jsp#anchor5 it says:
Thanks to its unique closed-loop water cooling system, the Sun MD is more than 40% more energy efficient at cooling than a typical datacenter. With high efficiency water cooling in a small enclosed area, much less energy is consumed per compute unit than in an air-conditioned datacenter. Energy costs can be reduced even more by locating the unit near less expensive power sources.
I don't know if anyone has done the math, but I'd also be interested the following scenario:
If your business is experiencing bustling growth in it's operations, and you needed to create
a 1000 sq foot data centre, in a traditional sense. But all you had was a well-preped room.
How many shipping containers would one need to ship all of the supporting environment (raised floors), cabling infrastructure, security/monitoring, racks, CRACs, boxes for each server(let's say HP BladeSystem C-Class -see page 2), etc. to create that data centre? Then compare that to some number of Sun Modular Datacenter S20's filled with the Sun Fire T5120 to the same level of performance. Having seen all of the gear that goes into just creating a data centre, that would be an interesting comparison.
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