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Data Center Commissioning Saves Time and Money

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Infrastructure + Hardware

There’s a concept in building design and construction known as “commissioning.” Most of us understand the word “commission” to mean a formal request for the building or making of something. A wealthy patron might commission a painting from an artist, for example. However, there’s also a...

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The benefits of location when choosing where to house your supercomputer

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation

A broad spectrum of High-Performance Computing (HPC) users, whether they be research institutes, emerging entrepreneurs or corporate enterprises, recognise how the power and efficiency of their HPC applications can accelerate their computationally intensive workloads, providing research...

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Keeping waveforms in check

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Infrastructure + Hardware Power & Cooling

Whether a data centre is onshore or offshore, the universal electrical issue that affects them all is harmonics. Here, John Mitchell, global business development manager of supply, repair and field service specialist CP Automation explains the most effective way to mitigate harmful harmonics in a...

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How “going natural” is transforming data centres

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Energy Management Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware Power & Cooling

Just as computers generate heat, the data centres that contain the servers that power our emails and data sharing culture also generate a lot of heat. As a result, one of the primary sources of energy use in most data centres is cooling. Finding the right solution is important, not least because of...