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Alex Yakimov wrote a new post, Automatic electricity readings, on the site JISC Green ICT 1 year ago
There are some good news in this area. We started collecting automated readings for computer room electricity meters about a year ago and spent quite a lot of time getting all measurements collected, consolidated […]
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Alex Yakimov wrote a new post, EU Code of Conduct submission, on the site JISC Green ICT 1 year, 3 months ago
It was quite a while since the last post. During that time we had a few changes in scope due to College construction projects that were planning to move computer room chillers onto the roof of the Mechanical […]
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Alex Yakimov wrote a new post, Undefloor airflow, on the site JISC Green ICT 1 year, 7 months ago
As part of baselining energy consumption and cooling performance Shiang Chin, 4th year student at Imperial College London, helped with measuring computer rooms airflow.
He measured airflow and temperature above […] -
Alex Yakimov wrote a new blog post: Thermal imaging of dampers 1 year, 10 months ago
From the preliminary investigation we also found that temperature ranges emanating from the floor grilles indicate different temperatures. Prompted by this we’ll set a project task to adjust dampers correctly using anemometer/temperature probe and set a baseline. It will also be included this into regular checks and maintenance procedures. -
Alex Yakimov wrote a new blog post: Thermal imaging of cabinets in the trial area 1 year, 10 months ago
Image of racks with and without blanking ABS Consulting have conducted preliminary thermal imaging of some cabinets in the trial area and there is a very visible difference between a cabinet that has no equipment installed and has no blanking and a cabinet that has equipment installed with the gaps blanked off. The images highlight the mixing [...] -
Alex Yakimov wrote a new blog post: Kevin Cope, Head of Building Operations at Imperial College, shares his thoughts: 1 year, 12 months ago
The challenge of this particular project is to improve on what is already two reasonably efficient “data centre” computer rooms (with power utilization efficiency, or PUE, of 1.52 and 1.32), and perhaps influencing other “data centres” to adopt any improvements we can establish. Working within Facilities Management I’m learning a lot about how…[Read more]
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Alex Yakimov wrote a new blog post: Where do we start? 1 year, 12 months ago
To start with the project we should establish a baseline and make an assessment of available options: Two Imperial College computer rooms, which host around 2,500 servers for Imperial College London, Natural History Museum, Royal College of Music and Janet-LMN point-of-presence, consume about 7,500 MWh annually at a cost of around £500,000.…[Read more]
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