Facilities and Equipment
►Thermal Laboratory – Woolf Hall, Room 109
►Data Center Laboratory – Nedderman Hall, Room 114 and 115
►Research Modular Data Center – Mestex Facility at Dallas, TX
►Scaled Direct Evaporative Cooling Unit – Facebook’s Donation
Thermal Laboratory
Air Flow Bench Testing
–IT System and Fans
–Air Filters
–Wet Cooling Media
Airside Economization – Gaining Cooling Efficiency
Free Cooling, Direct and Indirect Evaporative Cooling
Research modular data center with a direct/indirect evaporative cooling module at the facility of industrial partner, Mestex, in Dallas, TX
Mestex/UTA Data Center has been running without failure for the last “five years”
Data Center Laboratory
►420 1U rackmount servers (donated by Yahoo!) to be installed in 12 racks primarily for experimental and computational studies
►Collaborative experimental research with member companies and partners on current and future technologies
►Designed and built to extend the ongoing research capabilities in support of UTA’s involvement in the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) in Energy Smart Electronic Systems
►1250 ft2 of white floor space is divided into two equal sized rooms to support multiple research objectives and projects simultaneously