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News Release from: American Power Conversion | Subject: InfraStruXure
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 04 November 2004
Italians go American
American Power Conversion (APC) announces that Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro has selected their InfraStruXure with integrated cooling for Ferrari's new data centre in Maranello, Italy.
American Power Conversion (APC), one of the world's largest providers of equipment that serves the network-critical physical infrastructure (NCPI), today announced that Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro, the Formula One racing team, has selected APC's InfraStruXure with integrated cooling for Ferrari's new data centre in Maranello, Italy Capable of cooling 20kW (kilowatts) per rack, InfraStruXure with integrated cooling will serve as the physical infrastructure for Ferrari's hardware platform that performs the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations essential to the aerodynamic modeling of its championship-winning Formula One cars
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Aug 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The InfraStruXure system improves availability by placing the cooling system within the IT row and is designed specifically to address high density IT technologies such as power-dense servers.
In addition, InfraStruXure provides a lower total cost of ownership and enhanced data centre adaptability.
The InfraStruXure is part of Ferrari's turn-key solution that also includes managing the data room construction.
Ferrari implemented a large supercomputer using AMD Opteron-based Linux server clusters for CFD simulations and the related storage system.
With each installed rack generating 10kW of heat load, APC's InfraStruXure with integrated cooling proved to be one of the only solutions capable of meeting Ferrari's requirements.
At up to 20kW per rack, InfraStruXure with integrated cooling provides up to ten times the cooling potential of traditional cooling approaches, which range from 2-3kW per rack.
According to Antonio Calabrese, head of information systems for Scuderia Ferrari, "APC's InfraStruXure system provides us flexibility for our various computing power requirements, diverse software applications and deployment challenges, while providing a highly available data centre.
Today, our installed CFD calculation processes require hundreds of kW of power.
APC and its InfraStruXure state-of-the-art modular solution supports us today and has the adaptability we need as we grow in the future." Calabrese added, "With APC managing the project setup and maintenance, it allows us to look to one experienced supplier for a turn-key solution for our data centre's physical infrastructure of power, cooling, racks, environmental management and security." "We have worked closely with Scuderia Ferrari to help them deploy an ideal solution for their sophisticated research and development data centre, which houses one of the largest privately owned supercomputers in the world," said Dwight Sperry, APC's group general manager, Enterprise Systems and Business Networks.
"While the technology exists to create data centre designs with multiple powerful processors in a clustered environment, IT professionals are dealing with today's challenge to power and cool them - while ensuring high availability as well as the ability to expand for tomorrow's technology.
InfraStruXure's immediately deployable benefits were clear to Ferrari.
And since Ferrari also is considering increasing the processing power in the future, InfraStruXure's agility was instrumental as well.".
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