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That is what you’ll gain with the Upsite Blog. We’ve been posting for several years now. One might think there is only so much to say about data center cooling and airflow management, but as a testament to our passion, and the ever changing landscape of data centers and computer rooms, we still have plenty left to talk about.
We hope you’ll find the content herein valuable and useful as you begin, or continue, your journey towards data center cooling optimization.
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[VIDEO] How Airflow Management Relates to PUE
Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is one of the most widely used metrics in the industry and is simply defined as the ratio of total facilities energy to IT equipment energy. It provides us a baseline to which we can measure against, but most importantly, it points us...
AI Chip Innovation Is Reshaping Data Center Cooling
NVIDIA continues to turn out more powerful graphics processing units (GPUs). The company’s Blackwell chips feature more than 200 billion transistors and the high-speed interconnect bandwidth that AI workloads and hyperscale data centers require. Now, the NVIDIA Vera...
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[VIDEO] The Science of Data Center Containment
Whether you’re implementing hot aisle or cold aisle containment, modular or legacy containment, or soft or hard containment, the overarching goal is to prevent the mixing of cold supply air with hot exhaust air. How effectively you do this does somewhat depend on the...
Scale up, Scale out, or Scale Across for AI Data Centers. Which is Best?
For years, there has been a discussion about whether it is best to scale up the capabilities of a server or rack or scale out to distribute the workload across multiple servers or racks. Scaling UP within the rack or server means adding more CPUs, GPUs, RAM, and...
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[VIDEO] PUE Levels of Measurement: What You Need to Know
The Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric is the most popular method of calculating energy efficiency in the data center. Although hotly debated for its limitations, its use is still very prevalent throughout the industry. Developed by the Green Grid, PUE is simply...