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TileFlow - Addressing an Important Industry Need

Raised-floor data centers are very commonly used to house computer and telecommunication equipment. Power dissipation per unit volume of the electronic devices continues to increase rapidly. 

In addition, electronic equipment is closely spaced in modern data centers for efficient utilization of floor space. Therefore, the heat load per unit floor area continues to increase as shown by the trends published by the Uptime institute. Supply of sufficient amount of cold air is critical for proper and reliable operation of the electronic equipment. In raised-floor data centers, cold air from the CRAC units flows into the under floor space and comes out of the perforated tiles that are located close to the electronic equipment. Due to the complex fluid dynamic effects in the space under the raised floor, changes in perforated tiles at one location can significantly affect the flow rates far away. Therefore, the central design problem in data centers is to provide the right amount of cooling air to each unit of electronic equipment that is in proportion to its heat load.

Flow-balancing in raised floor data centers is normally done using a trail-and-error approach that is very costly. TileFlow™ offers a scientific approach for the design of floor layouts for new data centers, rearrangement of existing data centers, and analysis of failure scenarios. The ease-of-use, speed of calculation, and predictive accuracy make TileFlow™ a powerful tool for the design of modern data centers.

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