Case Study
Cardiff University completes energy efficiency upgrade high performance (HPC) data centre
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY - CASE STUDY SUMMARY Industry sector: Higher Education Business Solution: Datacentr e T echnology: APC by SchneiderCardiff University completes energy efficiency upgrade high performance (HPC) data centre Cardiff University’s HPC data centre fulfils a number of disparate roles, from housing the servers that provide applications and storage for the University’s general IT needs through to hosting a high-performance computing cluster, called Raven. The cluster is operated by the Advanced Research Computing at Cardiff (ARCCA) division and supports computationally intensive research projects across several Welsh universities. In addition, it houses the Cardiff Hub of the distributed High Performance Computing Wales service (HPC Wales). The differing computing needs of the C