HP Sets Milestones

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced the largest deployment to date of its Dynamic Smart Cooling technology in a next-generation research data center located in Bangalore, India.

HP Labs, the companys central research organization, wanted to demonstrate the scaling of its cooling technology in a real-world, heterogeneous data center environment. The result is one of the most sensor-rich data centers in the world, yielding a 20 percent reduction in cooling power consumption upon startup.

Once fully optimized, the Dynamic Smart Cooling-based (http://www.hp.com/go/dsc) data center is expected to save 7,500 megawatt-hours (MWh) annually -- equal to the power consumption of more than 750 U.S. homes -- and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 7,500 tons annually.

The project involved consolidating 14 lab data centers in Bangalore into a high-density, 70,000-square-foot data center, one of the largest in India. The data center is composed of a mix of older legacy equipment and newer server racks and blades, which is common for IT environments deployed in production today.

Real-time data center air-temperature measurements are obtained from a network of 7,500 sensors deployed on the IT racks -- the most ever deployed in a single data center. An agile mechanism responds to facility failures, anomalies and brown outs.When fully optimized, the data center is expected to yield up to a 40 percent reduction in energy consumption over today’s typical data center cooling methods.

“This is a great example of research that pushes the boundaries of today’s technology to address challenges companies will face in the future,” said Shane Robison, executive vice president and chief technology and strategy officer, HP. “HP continues to set the bar for energy-efficiency initiatives that both make business sense and reduce environmental impact.”

Hewlett-Packard Co.