Emerson-Sun HPC initiative
ConvergenceAsia staff
04/07/2007

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and the supplier of network power and protection infrastructure, has announced a joint development effort with Sun Microsystems focused on defining and developing a high-efficiency power and cooling infrastructure for advanced High-Performance Computing (HPC) data centres. This initiative will enable the Sun Blade 6000 and Sun Blade 8000 server platforms to be deployed with zero impact on data centre cooling.

Said Fred Stack, Vice President of Marketing, Liebert Environmental solutions, Emerson Network Power, "Through closer collaboration, we can take a more holistic approach to data centre operations and together drive a level of efficiency and performance that exceeds what either organisation could achieve independently."
 
The two organisations will also collaborate on:

- Joint program validating Liebert cooling solutions' ability to eliminate the impact of heat dissipation from the Sun Blade 6000 and Sun Blade 8000 Modular System platforms.

- The continued deployment of Liebert XD cooling systems in Sun engineering labs, which create HPC environments for testing and development of power and cooling technologies with future generations of Sun servers.
 
Sun and Emerson are also both participants in The Green Grid, which is focused on creating a forum for companies to develop meaningful, platform-neutral standards, measurement methods, processes and new technologies to improve energy efficient performance of the global data centre.

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