Chapter Work Groups
At the Winter 2001 chapter meeting, serveral working groups were established to explore some of the more challenging issues facing the mission critical industry.  Each work group will meet independently to examine particular issues in an in depth and open fashion.  Users, vendors, designers are all encouraged to attend the sessions; if you would like to serve on one of the groups, contact the group leaders listed below for more information and meeting times.

Each group will be giving updates at our regular chapter meetings and ultimately, presentations to the National Conferences.

Server Cooling Work Group
Mission Statement:
Understand thermal issues facing the modern data center, bring together the industry server thermal roadmap and data center cooling capacity, and chart a course for power and density growth over the next 5 years.

Meeting Minutes
Meeting minutes from the first Server Cooling Work Group meeting, held on May 29, 2001.
Meeting minutes from the August 14, 2001 meeting.
Meeting minutes from the October 16, 2001 meeting.
Meeting minutes from the December 11, 2001 meeting.
Meeting minutes from the January 29, 2002 meeting.
Meeting minutes from the March 5, 2002 meeting.

Server Cooling Work Group Presentations
These presentations are available for public distribution, provided that original authorship is credited.

Server Cooling Dynamics and Issues, by David De Lorenzo, Intel Corporation.
This presentation is an on going development of the many issues raised in the meeting of the Work Group.  It is an excellent synopsis of the sources of heat in the server environment, as well as a look foward along the server industry power roadmap.

Economizer Standards and Data Center Impacts, by Tim Burns, PSF Mechanical.
An examination of the new energy codes being adopted by the City of Seattle and the State of Washingtion and their impacts on data center design and operation.  Discusses water side economizer options for meeting these new codes.

Free Cooling Data, by Jim Sweet, Campbell Company (Seattle Liebert representative)
Two charts documenting the average hours available in the Seattle area to be able to use "free cooling" system, along with a diagram of the Liebert "Econocoil" drycooler system.

Power and Cooling Technology Trends, by Robin Steinbrecher, Intel Corporation.
An overview of  the Thermal Management Consortium & Uptime Institute work on developing standardized environmental specifications for computer equipment.

Server Power Trends, by Brian Griffith, Intel Corporation.
An analysis of statistical and emperical internal power budgets for servers.

"Tower of Cool", engineering data for high density server rack co-developed by RTKL.

For information relative to the Server Cooling Work Group, contact:  David De Lorenzo, Intel Corporation
david.s.de.lorenzo@intel.com

Power Planning Work Group
The Power Planning Work Group will focus on planning issues in forecasting future utility capacity, market demands and related issues.

Power Planning Work Group:  Draft Mission Statement

City of Seattle New Large Load Ordinance
The City of Seattle has recently passsed this new ordinance related to new large utility loads with very high surcharges.  Read this ordinace, as it applies to any new or expanded load of 12.5 Mva or greater.  This is a significant change to current Seattle City Light utility rates.

Contact:  Wayne Humphry, Mazzetti & Associates
wayneh@mazzetti.com