Validated Thermal Air Management Simulations of Data Centers Using Remote Graphics Processing UnitsShow others and affiliations
2018 (English)In: Proceedings: IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IEEE, 2018, p. 4920-4925Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Simulation tools for thermal management of data centers help to improve layout of new builds or analyse thermal problems in existing data centers. The development of LBM on remote GPUs as an approach for such simulations is discussed making use of VirtualGL and prioritised multi-threaded implementations of an existing LBM code. The simulation is configured to model an existing and highly monitored test data center. Steady-state root mean square averages of measured and simulated temperatures are compared showing good agreement. The full capability of this simulation approach is demonstrated when comparing rack temperatures against a time varying workload, which employs time-dependent boundary conditions.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE, 2018. p. 4920-4925
Series
Annual Conference of Industrial Electronics Society, E-ISSN 2577-1647
Keywords [en]
data centers, thermal management, CFD, GPU, lattice Boltzmann methods
National Category
Computer Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-73019DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2018.8591192Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85061540809OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-73019DiVA, id: diva2:1291847
Conference
44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2018), Washington D.C., USA, October 21-23, 2018
Note
ISBN för värdpublikation: 978-1-5090-6684-1
2019-02-262019-02-262021-06-17Bibliographically approved