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The TCC is hosting the Department of Energy (DOE) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories Data Center Energy Efficiency Seminar the day before the TCC on February 25th from 1-5 p.m. that will focus on Data Center best practices and steps to improve energy efficiency. Seminar is in the Mission City Ballroom at the Santa Clara Convention Center. This seminar is held the day before the main TCC event
Data center owners, operators, designers, builders, and suppliers interested in reducing energy consumption. This seminar will provide a foundation to understand specific presentation during the TCC and how they would fit into an overall best practices energy efficiency strategy.
DOE has initiated the Better Buildings Program to reduce America’s building energy 20%, see: http://energy.gov/better-buildings. Included is a Challenge to reduce the infrastructure energy consumption of data centers (PUE – 1) 20%; see: https://www4.eere.energy.gov/challenge/partners/data-centers. This Seminar is an opportunity for Challenge partners to learn about techniques to achieve the goal, and network with likeminded peers. Attendees are not required to be DOE Better Buildings Data Center Challenge Partners.
Workshop & instructors, context, trends, opportunities, benchmarking
(20 min. lecture)
Speaker: Dale Sartor, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Multiplier effect, Moore’s law, trends, powered but unused equipment, power vs. utilization, virtualization, the cloud, storage option
(30 min. lecture)
Speaker: Dale Sartor, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Drivers, ASHRAE Thermal Guidelines (air and liquid)
(15 min. lecture)
Speaker: Magnus Herrlin, Ph.D., President, ANCIS Incorporated; U.S. DOE Data Center Energy Practitioner (DCEP) Program Lead
Hot & cold aisles, bypass & recirculation, techniques to improve, containment, fan and plant savings
(25 min. lecture)
Speaker: Brian Donathon, Principal at TELADATA
Overview, CRACs & CRAHs, chiller plant, Liquid cooling (from CRAHs to direct touch), chill-off results, warm water cooling, compressorless cooling (economization), heat reuse, humidity control.
(40 min. lecture)
Speaker: Dale Sartor, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Power chain conversions & losses, power supplies, UPS, other power savings opportunities.
(20 min. panel discussion)
Speaker: Mukesh Khattar, Technical Executive, Data Centers at EPRI
System & component monitoring, metrics, benchmarking, dashboards, integrated controls.
(30 min. panel discussion)
Moderator: Bruce Myatt, Founder of CFRT
Panelist: Dale Sartor, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Panelist: Jamie Saguindel, Sr. Manager, IT - Data Center
at VMware
Resources available, Center of Expertise, Assessment tools, Energy Star, Better Buildings Challenge, summary or best practice opportunities.
(20 min. lecture)
Speaker: Dale Sartor, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
DOE has established the Data Center Efficiency Center of Expertise at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to disseminate information and provide tools to assist owner/operators in achieving energy efficiency goals; see: http://datacenters.lbl.gov/ . The center will partner with leading industry conferences to raise awareness of the program and of energy efficiency opportunities in data centers.
