Digital Realty Trust and Innovative Research present:

This free two day seminar is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of the issues associated with cooling today’s high-density datacenters, and familiarize them with the tools and methodologies available to address them. Through presentations conducted by industry leading experts from The Uptime Institute, Innovative Research and Digital Realty Trust, attendees will be presented with real world examples of practical methods for dealing with datacenter heat loads.

The first portion of this event will be a one and a half day session conducted by Dr. Robert Sullivan, of the Uptime Institute, that will address cooling related issues including:

• Precision cooling basics
• Psychrometrics of datacenters
• Heat load, static pressure, cooling CFM, delta T, perforated tiles and the simple arithmetic for proper planning
• Principles for locating computer hardware, perforated tiles and cooling systems in raised floor environments

The seminar will conclude with a half day session conducted by Jim Smith, Vice President of Engineering with Digital Realty Trust, and Dr. Amir Radmehr of Innovative Research that will provide attendees with real world examples of how the use of modeling software to pre-plan your datacenter layout can substantially reduce your operational costs.

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"Everything You Need to Know About Datacenter Cooling"

Presenters:

Robert "Dr. Bob" Sullivan is a recognized datacenter cooling expert with over 40 years of industry experience. Dr. Bob holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University and an M.S. and PhD in Applied Mechanics from Stanford University and is widely recognized as the originator of the “hot aisle/cold aisle” concept of datacenter cooling.

Jim Smith is the Vice President of Engineering at Digital Realty Trust where he oversees datacenter development, the company's efficiency & green strategy, and power procurement & energy management. In the past three years, Jim and the Digital Realty Trust team have delivered more than 75MW of UPS capacity on over 40 datacenter projects in North America and Europe. This portfolio includes the industry's first LEED Gold certified Datacenter. Jim has a BSc in Chemistry from Fort Lewis College and an MBA from London Business School.

Dr. Amir Radmehr is currently a member of the technical staff at Innovative Research, Inc. He has over ten years experience in developing engineering software in the field of mechanical engineering. He has completed several projects regarding cooling of datacenters. He has used both measurements and computational modeling to address and resolve the cooling challenges in datacenters. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. He has authored or co-authored over thirty papers.

2007 Seminar Dates:

Dallas: January 29 - 30
San Francisco: February 26 - 27
Dublin: April 16 - 17
New York City: May 21 - 22
Chicago: June 18 - 19