Sept
28
The Green Grid Monthly Members Webcast
ASHRAE Temperature and Humidity Environmental Guidelines/Recommendations
September 28, 2011
7:00-8:00am PDT and 5:00-6:00pm PDT
The ASHRAE Temperature and Humidity Environmental Guidelines/Recommendations webcast offered an in depth review of The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Technical Committee on Data Centers (TC 9.9) white paper on expanding the thermal design guidelines for data centers.
The white paper defines four new classes of data centers that will allow the data center owner/operator to design new data centers that can make use of free-cooling technologies (economizers) to significantly reduce their PUE. Additionally, he white paper highlights trade-offs between cost, total energy use reliability, acoustics, and much more.
Speaker:
Dr. Michael Patterson, Intel
Dr. Michael K. Patterson is a Senior Thermal Architect working in the Eco-Technology Program Office in the Digital Enterprise Group at Intel Corporation, Dupont, Wa, where he works in the power, thermal, and energy-efficient performance areas. The work covers silicon level activity, through platform and rack level solutions, and on up to interface with Data Center power and cooling technologies. He did his undergraduate work at Purdue University, received his MS degree in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and was awarded his MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Vermont. His current technical interests include server power and thermal management technologies, server/datacenter interaction, and high density data center concepts. He has been with Intel for 17 years. He is a registered Professional Engineer. He is also a member of ASME and ASHRAE and represents Intel in a number of Green Grid activities.
Mike has been engaged in the Technical Committee since its inception, currently serving as the Technology and Strategy Work Group Chair and actively participating in a number of other groups. His leadership in the Technical Committee has been instrumental and he has played an important role in numerous projects, most recently the ERE White Paper and the EPA Data Center Assessment Report.