Three Carnegie Mellon University students were awarded the APC Fellowships for Data Center Efficiency Research yesterday at the Collaborative Innovation Center. The APC Research Fellowships support Ph.D. students at Carnegie Mellon with a research focus in the broad area of data center efficiency. In addition, Carnegie Mellon University’s Parallel Data Lab will unveil the second major installment of APC’s award-winning InfraStruXure® architecture and will be giving tours of the facility during the event.
APC’s energy efficient InfraStruXure architecture fully integrates power, cooling, racks, environmental monitoring, physical security, and management, and allows for the selection of standardized components to create a solution through modular and mobile configurations. This standardization enables an easily scalable architecture that can meet changing needs and future expansion. This award-winning approach provides increased availability, improved adaptability and speed of deployment as well as lower total cost of ownership for IT environments.
Luca Parolini, a Ph.D student in electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon and Vijay Vasudevan and James Cipar, both Ph.D students in computer science, will receive fellowships that will cover tuition and stipends (up to $50,000) for each researcher at the department’s standard rates for one year from APC.
“I am extremely grateful for this recognition by APC because there is so much pressure for industry to cut energy consumption, and the award will support the university’s ongoing research into improving data center performance,” said Parolini of Padua, Italy.
Vijay Vasudevan, a Ph.D student in computer science at Carnegie Mellon, said he was both excited and proud of the APC Research Data Center Fellowship award. “This is a wonderful honor and I know it will help with my research,” said Vasudevan of Palo Alto, Calif. Currently, Vasudevan is building computer clusters that can consume only five to six watts of electricity compared with the current industry-wide standard of 300 to 500 watts.
Cipar, who is completing his second year as a Ph.D student in computer science from Acton, Mass., is also exploring problems related to controlling operating costs for data centers.
