Stock Data Center "that thing."

Blink of an eye, the first half of 2011 has gradually faded out of people's vision. In this six months, major manufacturers have unveiled a new generation of "cloud Center"-Data center. There are both open data centers, container data centers, new data center cooling systems, and data center "things". In particular, since last year, major manufacturers have demonstrated the wonderful nature of the various data centers, but also to the industry's attention. Next, let's briefly review the content.

"Type" Data center

1. The Safest data center

The most secure data centers have nothing to do with the famous "Iron Mountain" data Center (and how much can be felt from the name). About 66 meters underground, it has a security level second only to the White House and the Pentagon's secret database.

Tie Shan Data Center

In addition, the server cooling system used in the data center is very unique, connecting the vent pipe of the cooling system to the limestone wall in the data center, and transmitting the heat from the server to the limestone in the ground floor. In addition, it uses groundwater cooling to raise the power density of the datacenter to 150w/square feet, while the average datacenter power density is only 125w/square feet.

This data center skillfully uses the underground low temperature and the underground water to carry on the heat dissipation, the effect is far better than the same type traditional data center, the heat radiates to the underground, reduces the heat energy emission effectively, the creativity and the design are very practical.

2, the largest data center

The largest data center is owned by it giant Microsoft. Its data center in Chicago has a total area of 700,000 square feet (about 65,020 square meters). If you open only half of the servers in the datacenter, the energy consumption will also reach 30M Watts, a number of times more than the average data center.

Microsoft Data Center

Microsoft Data Center Cooling System

A large number of containers are housed in the Chicago Data Center, with 1800 to 2500 servers in each container. The data center uses a combination of cold air refrigeration and chiller refrigeration to keep the room cool in hot weather.

In the first half of the enterprise-level market, the data center is "a fire". This is partly due to the success of the "open" Data centre "Topsy". Manufacturers have not only shown their data centers, but the Open Data Center Alliance, which was set up last year, has also pushed the tide of data center development to a peak this year, and even the data center has been able to play the patent of software Systems-open source. According to this keyword, we mainly discuss the first half of this year about the manufacturer data Center, open source data center and Open Data Center Alliance.

Open Data Center

1, the data Center also play "open source"

In April this year, Facebook launched an unprecedented open source project for data centers and servers--the Open Compute project, opening open source to perfection!

The Open Compute Project open source data center

The project, led by Facebook, works with HP, Dell, AMD and Intel Inc., which includes both data centers and servers. Among them, the data center includes the overall power supply, the overall temperature control (mainly refers to the engine room cooling control), the standby battery as well as three on-line cabinets.

Located in Oregon State, this open source data center has an efficient power system and an efficient cooling system designed with 100% evaporative cooling. In addition, it uses a 48V DC battery, and the battery can provide direct power supply.

2. Brocade Silicon Valley Data center

In May this year, brocade the world's Silicon Valley data Center as it held its annual technical summit in Silicon Valley, the company's headquarters.

Brocade Silicon Valley Data center

The data center, which contains 5000 square feet (1 square feet = 0.09290304 square meters), has a coveted green certificate with a Pue value of 1.3, a total of 110 rack servers, and a utilization of up to 50%. You can simulate any number of applications and process processes for the user.

3. Open Data Center Alliance release Application Model

The concept of Open data centres did not appear this year. Last October, Intel launched the Open Data Center Consortium (ODCA), which was seven months old, and ODCA has yielded fruitful results.

Open Data Center Alliance logo

In just seven months, the league's membership has grown by as much as four times times, with more than 280 global IT application leaders joining the Alliance, which have accumulated more than $100 billion trillion in it budgets over the year. In June of this year, the Open Data Center Consortium, China Unicom and China Life, announced the opening of the eight application models for the Open Data center that ODCA first identified since its inception in Beijing.

In addition, the Open Data Center Alliance also announced the current and future development planning blueprint, the current release of the application model, will be initially deployed in the next 18 months, the next 6 months will formally confirm the industry development planning blueprint.

The concept of the container data center originated from Sun's "black Box program", introduced in October 2006. At the time, sun intended to plug some of the basic components of the data center, including computer hardware, power supplies and cooling equipment, into a 20-foot-long, 8-foot-wide, 8-foot-high standard container. Easy to carry, low-cost, construction speed, and not subject to site restrictions, can quickly complete the desire to build in a short time.

In recent years, the emergence of the container data center, is in tune with the current economic overall trend is not clear enough, tight budget situation, can help to significantly reduce costs, shorten the deployment cycle, achieve ultra-high density calculation purposes. In addition, the container data center also highlighted the mobility and flexibility, the real implementation of "on-demand Customization", "with purchase."

Container Data Center

1, Tide cloud container data center

April 7 This year, the wave of domestic manufacturers in Beijing officially released the first cloud data center products-"Sea of Clouds" container data center. The product is a wave of cloud-oriented application trends, based on data center construction and operation of the entire life cycle innovation, the introduction of mobile, container standardization of data center solutions. This is the first strategic product since the wave of cloud strategy was unveiled last August.

Tidal "Sea of Clouds" container data center

Sea of Clouds Container data center SmartCloud will power supply, refrigeration, cooling, it and other modules integrated into a standard container, it is divided into IT equipment containers and ancillary equipment containers, 20-foot split and 40-foot integral two standard forms, tolerance-40 ℃ and 60℃ extreme ambient temperature, Anti-7 earthquakes.

The product embodies the wave of cloud computing era data center of a new understanding of the data center in a standardized, modular design to achieve data center product, can be used with the purchase, Plug and play. Container units, factory pre-installed, batch manufacturing. Sea of clouds using integrated design and production, all the assembly, commissioning work all in the production workshop assembly completed. The equipment arrives at the user scene, only needs to connect the water, the electricity, the network and so on basic line, can work normally and provides the service outside, is the current China First Data center product.

2. Fuji Kang Container Data center

At the IDF 2011 Technology Summit this year, Foxconn unveiled its first patent cloud container data center, a container data center jointly built by Intel and Foxconn.

Foxconn Container Data Center debut IDF2011

"The data center can deliver within 6 weeks, containing more than 4,500 cores," said Schhode, managing director of the Intel Architecture Division and general manager of the Data Center division, at Intel's IDF keynote address. It supports single sign-on and makes it easy to monitor public and private clouds. It also provides strong standby power support. ”

3. Cisco Container Data Center

After months of painstaking design, network giant Cisco launched its first container data center this May. The release of the data center heralds Cisco's entry into the small data center market as a strong competitor for HP and IBM.

Cisco Container Data Center parked at the North Carolina Triangle Technology Park

The Cisco Container Data Center is a 40-foot cabinet that supports up to 16 racks internally. After the customer submits the order, Cisco can complete the installation and commissioning of the container data center within 120 days and deliver it to the user.

In particular, the container data center is designed with a cooling loop system placed at the bottom of the cabinet to cool down the cooling pipe at the bottom of the cabinet and to keep the airflow cycle through 3 large fans on the back of each cabinet, ensuring that the entire cabinet temperature is not overheated.

4. HP Container Twin Star

At the HP Discover conference this month, Hewlett-Packard showcased the latest container ecopod to compensate for the deficiencies in its previous product. It connects two 40-foot-high it containers by signaling it into a two-width data center container, creating an extra-width hot channel. Technicians are free to access the channel and are conducive to maintaining the equipment.

Container Ecopod

Hot channel in Container ecopod

This kind of container "Gemini" design, can effectively avoid the traditional container data center is not conducive to the administrator in and out of the equipment maintenance problems, because the container data center used in the container itself is used for cargo transportation and design.

Cooling system

1. Plant Cooling System

In February this year, data center developer Russo a plant-cooled data center in New Jersey, about 35 miles from Manhattan. The data center project is large in size, with a total area of more than 1.3 million square feet and a total of 100 megawatts of power supply in 69Kv.

Russo Data center overlooking the picture

Russo Data Center Internal

What is noteworthy is the way the data center is cooled, and the Russo will build a two-mile-wide "pond" in which many aquatic plants will be planted, while water in the ponds can cool the data centers. Under the action of aquatic plants, cooling water can be kept to a lower temperature, thus providing better cooling, the whole system will be very energy-saving.

2. Mineral oil Cooling system

Foreign high density refrigeration expert green revolution cooling, in May this year proposed a subversive cooling system scheme, which uses the principle of mineral oil cooling, the cabinet balance down to the ground, and then poured into 250 gallons of dielectric fluid, the server vertically into the surrounding trough body, The temperature of the liquid is controlled by a heat exchanger connected to a commercial evaporative cooling tower.

Cooling system containing mineral oil

The mineral oil cooling scheme is mainly used for high performance computing (HPC) and other applications for high-density deployment, for difficult to manage air cooling problems. Although the thermal conductivity of mineral oil is the same as that of water, it does not have an electrical charge, so mineral oil is not dangerous as a soaking liquid.

3. Seawater Cooling System

Foreign media reported in May that the Google Data center in Hamina, Finland, uses a new seawater cooling system that not only solves the problem of cooling the data center, but also solves the challenges posed by seawater.

Google Hamina data center inside

The data center uses a cooling module to extract seawater, and then the water flows from the cooling module to a temporary building, which is responsible for mixing the seawater with the water that is about to be discharged and, ultimately, to achieve the same water temperature that is pumped into the water. The advantage of this new seawater cooling system is that it minimizes the impact on the environment and, at the same time, the need to keep the data center cool and cooling.

About the data center.

1, Apple Rob Microsoft data Center Executives

This April, Kevin Timmons, general manager of Microsoft Data Center services, switched to Apple. The media noted that Timmons was famous for building low-cost large-scale data centers, and shortly after joining Microsoft in 2009, he was responsible for data center construction projects in Dublin and Chicago, and later worked on simplifying data center design and reducing operating costs.

Microsoft Data Center Gao Titi Timmons

During his tenure at Microsoft, he lowered data center operating costs by 50% and played a key role in Microsoft's data center project in Quincy, Massachusetts.

2, Oracle: The global data center is almost unqualified

At the same time as everyone is developing applauded for the data center, the industry boss Oracle poured cold water on everyone. In May, Oracle released a report on the Global Data Center construction quality Assessment system, which shows that the global data center is almost unqualified.

Oracle ratings for global data centers

According to a survey of data center availability, sustainability, and flexibility based on Oracle research, the average global data center operator is divided into 5.28 points. Specifically, Germany, Sweden scored slightly more than 6 points, followed by Northern Europe, less than 6 points, while the United States ranked third, 5.8 points. France, Italy and the Middle East scored significantly lower than the world average.

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