DCO DEDICATION —
May 23, 2006
On May 23, 2006, the Data Center Observatory was dedicated at Carnegie Mellon University. The DCO is a dual-purpose facility that is both a working data center and a research vehicle for the study of data center automation and efficiency.
The DCO is a large scale collaboration between several campus groups including the Parallel Data Lab, Cylab, the Carnegie Institute of Technology, the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, the School of Computer Science and Carnegie Mellon Facilities Management Services. It also includes participation from a number of industry and government partners, including APC, which is providing engineering expertise and its InfraStruXure® system for powering, cooling, racking and managing equipment in the DCO.
PDL Director and Professor of ECE Greg Ganger remarks that "the Data Center Observatory gives us a unique testbed for evaluating and benefitting from efforts to automate administration, such as our Self-* Storage project."
-- with information from the May 23, 2006 CMU Press Release
MORE INFORMATION
Greg Ganger's Data Center Observatory Overview slides
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Additional DCO Dedication photos