Pixar’s cold aisle containment study, ROI in 3.7 months

I found this a few days ago and it didn’t seem very “Viz”-like, so I sent it on to my buddy John West at InsideHPC who wrote it up.  Pixar presented a short 3-minute case study on their recent datacenter redesign at the recent Data Center Energy Efficienty Summit. I link to it here just so that all of you lonely animators/admins running Render Farms and constantly struggling with datacenter issues.

Pixar saved $30,000 over conventional cooling, on an $18,700 implementation cost, for a return on investment of 3.7 months (including PG&E rebates). And the figures are indepently audited.

Pixar’s short video is below.

If you work in this type of industry, then I highly recommend adding InsideHPC to your daily reading.

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Randall Hand is a computer graphics programmer and news junky that's been working in the field for the last 15 years. He's responsible for visualizations generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, ytnef, mullion support in ParaView, and VizWorld.com.