You think you have power and cooling issues? Slip into the shoes of Arthur ‘Buddy’ Bland, Project Director for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, and learn how they keep one of the largest computing facilities in the world powered up, yet cool enough to prevent melting. In this Register HPC Channel webcast, Dan Olds talks with Buddy about how Oak Ridge designs their data centers and systems to make the most of the power they consume.

Oak Ridge is one of the world’s most efficient large data centers, with a PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) score of 1.25. PUE is a measure of data center efficiency: the total power going into the building is compared to the amount of juice consumed by IT gear. They also discuss efforts to help improve how the rest of the industry measures power consumption, and how Oak Ridge plans to bring down their PUE even further. It involves a lake and a fair amount of pipe…