CSC celebrates opening of new green data centre
Cambridge, UK | 20 February 2013
CSC – IT Center for Science has formally launched its new data centre in Kajaani, in the former premises of UPM's paper warehouse. Modern data centre technology, the reuse of old factory premises and free cooling made possible by the chilly climate as well as hydro-electric power have made it possible to construct an environmentally friendly data centre with a reliable power supply.
The grand opening of possibly the most eco-efficient data centre in the world took place simultaneously in two locations: at CSC’s main premises in Espoo and the Datacenter CSC Kajaani itself, located almost 600 kilometres north of Helsinki. The opening revealed Finland's newest supercomputer, a Cray Cascade, with Hewlett-Packard's supercluster completing it. Its computing power is triple that of CSC's current Louhi supercomputer, and in 2014 will reach the petaflops class. CSC is among the first in the world to receive the Cascade-type supercomputer, which will be one of Europe's fastest supercomputers.
The Funet Network (Finnish University and Research Network) connects Datacenter CSC Kajaani to GÉANT thus ensuring excellent networking capabilities for Finnish and international researchers. Eventually the new supercomputers will be part of the PRACE resources and Funet is prepared to update network connectivity to 100 Gigabit per second whenever required by users.
To read more about the environmentally-friendly computing power of CSC, please see CONNECT magazine for the full story.
Cambridge, UK | 20 February 2013
CSC – IT Center for Science has formally launched its new data centre in Kajaani, in the former premises of UPM's paper warehouse. Modern data centre technology, the reuse of old factory premises and free cooling made possible by the chilly climate as well as hydro-electric power have made it possible to construct an environmentally friendly data centre with a reliable power supply.
The grand opening of possibly the most eco-efficient data centre in the world took place simultaneously in two locations: at CSC’s main premises in Espoo and the Datacenter CSC Kajaani itself, located almost 600 kilometres north of Helsinki. The opening revealed Finland's newest supercomputer, a Cray Cascade, with Hewlett-Packard's supercluster completing it. Its computing power is triple that of CSC's current Louhi supercomputer, and in 2014 will reach the petaflops class. CSC is among the first in the world to receive the Cascade-type supercomputer, which will be one of Europe's fastest supercomputers.
The Funet Network (Finnish University and Research Network) connects Datacenter CSC Kajaani to GÉANT thus ensuring excellent networking capabilities for Finnish and international researchers. Eventually the new supercomputers will be part of the PRACE resources and Funet is prepared to update network connectivity to 100 Gigabit per second whenever required by users.
To read more about the environmentally-friendly computing power of CSC, please see CONNECT magazine for the full story.
