Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Veri Merkezi Altyapısı ve Enerji Verimliliği
	English	Data Center Infrastructure & Energy Efficiency
Course Code	BLU 524E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Hamza Salih Erden
Course Objectives		This purpose of this course is to introduce students to data centers and the infrastructure supporting the information technology (IT) equipment with a focus on the energy efficiency aspects of various designs. This course will briefly introduce servers, storage and networking equipment that are housed in data centers, but most of the focus of the course will be directed at the power and cooling infrastructure that supports the IT equipment.
Course Description		Specifically, the course will enable the students to gain a working knowledge of and appreciation for: • Architectural design of data centers • Drivers for energy efficient data centers • Environmental operating conditions for data centers • Best practices and energy efficient technologies for data centers • Basic financial aspects of Data Center operation – ROI and TCO analysis • Key energy efficient metrics for a data center • Green Data Centers based on case studies • Ventilation systems for data center • Electrical design of data centers including direct current option • New technologies for data center power and cooling including fuel cells and solar
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Other References		ASHRAE Datacom Series: “Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments, Third Edition,2012. ASHRAE Datacom Series: “Datacom Equipment Power Trends and Cooling Applications, Second Edition, 2012. ASHRAE Datacom Series: “Design Considerations for Datacom Equipment Centers, Second Edition, 2009. H. Geng: “Data Center Handbook” J. Wiley & Sons, 2015. Wu, C., Buyya, R., Cloud Data Centers and Cost Modeling, Morgan Kaufmann, 2015

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