12 Jan
2011
12 Jan
'11
12:46 p.m.
On 1/12/11 1:09 PM, Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote:
There are other considerations. For cooling, you have to take into
account airflow and hot spots (which are not always easy to predict!),
and vent tile type and placement (if raised flooring is in use). For
power, there's distribution patterns, phase and branch balancing,
headroom, start surge considerations and sequencing, and grounding. And
don't forget floor loading considerations. And fire control. And
cableways in and out of the room.
But as I said earlier, it's almost all common sense and logic. You
don't put one of four wheels of a 2000lb computer on a tile that's rated
for 400lb, for example.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Something
I've wondered about is how people learn to build and run the
large data centers that now exist. Are there engineering courses in this
now, or is it a 'trade skill'?
Common knowledge. You know how much heat the computers generate and how
much power they eat, etc.