Close-coupled cooling system is right fit for data center
The new system is designed to keep the data center running today and into tomorrow.
The MITRE Corporation, located in Bedford, Massachusetts, is a private not-for-profit corporation that operates multiple Federally Funded Research Development Centers (FFRDCs) that support the United States government with scientific research and analysis, development and acquisition, and systems engineering and integration. MITRE also operates an independent research program that explores new and expanded uses of technologies to solve government problems.
Over the past five years, MITRE had steadily increased its computing and storage capabilities in order to continue providing the advanced analytics and computing services needed to support their government sponsors. By 2013, their “legacy” primary data center, which used a traditional design with computer room air conditioning units blowing cool air upward through a raised floor, had reached its limits in both an overall capacity and in a thermal density of about 2.5 kW per computer server cabinet.