Smart Data Centers Feature Editorial

Having a unique High Performance Computing (HPC) facility in house has been a headache to companies for years. Due to the unique requirements of HPC, companies are forced to build their own facilities rather than outsourcing to a colocation provider.

Data Foundry, which provides data center outsourcing and colocation services, is addressing the issues of these companies with the help of a master-planned Texas 1 facility opening in June 2011.

The Texas 1 facility will fully support High Performance Computing (HPC) requirements. The data center includes the design, staff and facility infrastructure to meet the complex needs of HPC customers, according to company officials.

The chilled water plant design separates HPC cooling from traditional room airflow. This allows water cooled cabinets to reach the power density demand of 50kW per cabinet.

Further, the facility will be able to accommodate higher limits in future.

The new data center relieves companies from the long-term capital deployments for HPC. Through Texas 1 facility, Data Foundry hopes to meet the needs of HPC users across a variety of industries such as higher education, oil and gas, and finance.

“Data Foundry fully understands what is important to HPC users,” said Edward Henigin, chief technology officer of Data Foundry, in a statement. “Texas 1 supports high floor loads, private suites starting at 2,500 SF and flexible configurations including chimney cabinets, hot or cold aisle containment, and customized liquid cooling solutions.”

The facility is built as part of a 40-acre, 100 megawatt data center development named the Data Ranch.

When functional, the facility will be the first data center in the Central Texas region designed from the ground up to support HPC requirements, according to company officials.

Data Foundry hit headlines in October last year when it announced partnership with Opportunity Austin, an Austin Chamber of Commerce division responsible for the region’s economic development, to spur job growth in the Central Texas region.