Some have called it the holy grail of data center energy efficiency, and now it has come to Berkeley Lab: real-time data showing the center’s power utilization effectiveness, or PUE. Lab Chief Information Officer Rosio Alvarez (left) said it was likely the first real-time use of PUE monitoring using wireless sensors in the entire federal sector. Alvarez spoke last week at an event to celebrate the completion of energy efficiency improvements to the data center in Building 50B-1275, which contains scientific computing clusters supported by IT, as well as key operations and infrastructure servers for the Lab. The project started in 2007 and involved the IT, Environmental Energy Technologies, and Facilities Divisions (EETD). The data center’s PUE–the ratio of energy consumed by the entire data center to that consumed just by the computers — has dropped from 1.65 to 1.45 (compared to a U.S. industry average of 2.0), resulting in a 30 percent energy savings, according to Dale Sartor (right) of EETD. The Lab worked with SynapSense, which provided the wireless sensors and other technology. Alvarez and Sartor are pictured with SynapSense CEO Peter Van Deventer. More>
Tags: Environmental Energy Technologies Division, IT Division
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