Datacenter Cooling Infrastructure Upgrade

Overview

UW IT Datacenter has planned a critical infrastructure upgrade to increase overall power load available on Beartooth beginning Wednesday February 8^th, 2023.  This upgrade is necessary as we move forward to house new generations of equipment and should reduce energy consumed for cooling. 

Please reach out to us with any questions or concerns at arcc-help@uwyo.edu  

Scheduled Work

This work is tentatively scheduled for completion in two parts and should not impact operations:   

• February 8^th through March 3^rd:  

  • Current liquid cooling in the datacenter will be turned off to perform the upgrade and the datacenter will fall back to air cooling during this time.   

  • Liquid cooling is scheduled to be back online by March 3^rd.    

• May 5^th through June 15^th:  

  • Racks housing Beartooth will have their liquid cooling systems upgraded to increase power load capacity for future node upgrades. 

Again, we anticipate no impacts to ARCC computational services during these time frames.  If we run into problems during the upgrade, Beartooth may run at a diminished capacity.  To mitigate complications, parts of the cluster may be shut down to maintain data center temperature requirements.