Contents
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
Thermal Laboratory
Data Center Laboratory
Research Modular Data Center
• 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.