On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:52:51 -0500, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote:
> >also mentioned in the above, the science center's 360/67 machine room >cooling had large city water pipe coming in, going thru the cooling unit >and then dumping directly into city sewer system. > >in the mid-70s, the city started making noises about conserving water. >the problem was that it would have required a water tower on the roof to >recycle the water ... and the building hadn't been constructed to handle >such loading (some comments from the period was that few of the large >multi-story office buildings had been built to handle such loading, also >the science center's 360/67 datacenter wasn't the only one in the >building). misc. past posts mentioning science center at 545 tech sq >(offices were on 4th flr, machine room was on the 2nd flr) >http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech > I used to work at a commercial data center (doing bank processing) that had a similar issue with its 370/155s. When they brought in these water cooled beasts, they talked to the landlord about installing cooling towers on the roof at their expense. However, it was found that the roof would have to be reengineered for the load, which would be the landlord's responsibility. Somehow the landlord decided it would cost him less if the data center used city water (at his expense) and dumped it down the drain. It was a decision he would come to regret. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
