DCO DEDICATION —
May 23, 2006
On May 23, 2006, the Data Center Observatory was dedicated at Carnegie Mellon University. The DCO is a dual-purpose facility that is both a working data center and a research vehicle for the study of data center automation and efficiency.
The DCO is a large scale collaboration between several campus groups including the Parallel Data Lab, Cylab, the Carnegie Institute of Technology, the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, the School of Computer Science and Carnegie Mellon Facilities Management Services. It also includes participation from a number of industry and government partners, including APC, which is providing engineering expertise and its InfraStruXure® system for powering, cooling, racking and managing equipment in the DCO.
PDL Director and Professor of ECE Greg Ganger remarks that "the Data Center Observatory gives us a unique testbed for evaluating and benefitting from efforts to automate administration, such as our Self-* Storage project."
-- with information from the May 23, 2006 CMU Press Release
MORE INFORMATION
Greg Ganger's Data Center Observatory Overview slides
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Additional DCO Dedication photos
DCO DEDICATION PHOTOS
Photo credit: Ken Andreyo, University Photographic Services
© Carnegie Mellon University 2006
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| From L to R: Chet Lasell, APC Director of Public Relations - North America; Ken Denecour, APC Account Manager; Jared L. Cohon, Carnegie Mellon President; Bob Wolfgang, APC DataCenter Design Engineer; Greg Ganger, Prof. of ECE and Director of the PDL; Ron Seftick, APC Global Vice President - Construction & Facilities Engineering Group; Pradeep Khosla, Carnegie Mellon Dean of Engineering; Bill Courtright, Executive Director of the PDL at Carnegie Mellon. |
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| President Cohon, Professor Ganger of Carnegie Mellon and APC VP Ron Seftick. |
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| Greg Ganger describes the hot aisle cooling and heat containment system housing the DCO storage racks to President Cohon. |
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| Pradeep Khosla, Dean of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon discusses the possibilties for research that will spring from the DCO. |
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| Carnegie Mellon University President Jared Cohon talks about the benefits a project the scope of the DCO will have for the university community. |
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| Ron Seftick, APC VP describes the advantages of the APC cooling system housing the computers in the DCO. |
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| President Cohon and APC VP Ron Seftick. |
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| President Cohon thanks Ron Seftick of APC for his company's support of the project. |
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| Greg Ganger points out the advantages of a data observatory to Industry, University and Press attendees. |
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| Ken Denecour, APC Account Manager attends the ribbon cutting talks. |
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| Greg Ganger describes the DCO to Kevin Heslin, editor of Energy & Power Management, while Bill Courtright looks on. |