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Client success story

Data centre transformation for University of Leicester

Salute has worked with the university for over ten years delivering a number of HPC transformational projects. UoL appointed Keysource to lead the transformation of its Computer Centre Data Centre located on campus.

About the project

The University of Leicester (UoL) is ranked 21st out of 766 universities in the world, in the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Ranking, placing it in the top 3%.

Its research is judged to be internationally excellent with wide-ranging impacts on society, health, culture, and the environment.

Salute has worked with the university for over ten years delivering a number of HPC transformational projects.

UoL appointed Salute to lead the transformation of its Computer Centre Data Centre located on campus.

It followed an increase in the need for high performance computing driven in part by the growth in research initiatives such as DiRAC, ALICE and space exploration projects.

The transformation included the doubling of capacity and the adoption of a large amount of direct liquid cooling, into an existing air-cooled environment.

This was a fundamental shift from a consistent approach to High Performance Cooling (HPC) with air cooled technology to a Direct Liquid Cooled (DLC) solution from HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise). It was the first deployment of its kind for a higher education organisation in the UK and Europe.

The solution utilises DLC technology which is direct liquid to server rather other forms of immersive cooling currently on the market. This involves incorporating the addition of the DLC directly onto the existing chilled water system and working in tandem with the air-cooled systems.

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Direct Liquid Cooling

HPC Transformational Design Service integrating 150kW Direct Liquid Cooled (DLC).

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RIBA 0 – 7

RIBA 0 to 7 including seamless integration of chilled water system and controls across air and DLC.

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Fully Integrated Solution

Working in partnership with the University of Leicester and Hewlett Packard Enterprise to provide an integrated and efficient solution.

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Design Guardian

Design Guardian to ensure efficient and optimised operation after commissioning.

We have an excellent working partnership with Salute. We know that with their experience of design, delivery, and operation that we can rely on their design team to apply real life lessons learnt and deliver on our objectives, whilst critically considering the approach to installation and full life operation. Having the Salute team onboard as Design Guardians during the commissioning and operation gives us confidence on the success of this critical research project and will deliver the University an industry leading HPC cluster for world leading research.
Geoff Gomez
Cloud and Infrastructure Services Director, Atcore

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