Building the Data Center of the Future: Effective Energy-Efficient Design

Building the Data Center of the Future 2nd Biennial Workshop: HPC Data Centers

June 23-24, 2010
I-Hotel and Conference Center
1901 S. First St.
Champaign, Illinois

Facilities dedicated to high-performance computing, networking, and data storage present unique challenges. How are these facilities evolving to meet the need for greater capacity while mitigating environmental impact? What innovative solutions are ensuring that these environments are fault-tolerant, flexible, scalable, maintenable, cost-effective, and meet the government's new Energy Star requirements for data centers?

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) tackled these challenges and many others as part of the Blue Waters project, which is building and deploying the first sustained-petascale supercomputer for open scientific research.

Presenters and participants from academia, government, the IT industry, business, and engineering, consulting, and architecture firms will explore the challenges involved in planning, designing, engineering, constructing, and maintaining data centers of the future in this free, two-day workshop.

This workshop is sponsored by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Clayco, EYP Mission Critical Facilities, IBM, and Nova Corporation.

Space is limited and advance registration is required.

Questions? Contact Barbara Jewett, barbaraj@ncsa.illinois.edu.