Data centre hosting

The Redwood data centre is a state-of-the-art machine room designed to minimise energy use.

All the heat produced by the supercomputer is enclosed in a hot-aisle containment cube and cooled using an innovative water-cooling system from APC. By only targeting the hot air from the cluster and not cooling the entire machine room, a significant proportion of energy is saved compared to a conventional data centre installation.

Front of Datacentre cabinets — Cabinets in our Redwood data centre.

Systems hosted in the data centre benefit from:

APC Hot Aisle Containment cubes, with all cabinets and In-row RC Units in situ. APC Symmetra UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply) units provide power to all the systems, and all components are on UPS power
cabinets housed on a solid concrete floor with all pipes and power run in the ceiling void
FM200 Fire Suppression System
environmental and power monitoring systems
secure area and CCTV
three external ‘Turbomiser’ Units maintain the chilling infrastructure for the water-cooled racks
backup generator.