Data Center Facts
General
- Low-profile, single story bunkered design to protect the university's critical computers and networking equipment
- Complex square feet: 90,000
- Building gross square feet: 82,700
- Designed to withstand an F5 tornado via FEMA building standards
- Advanced fire suppression and security system
- 1.5 MW generators with space for a third expansion unit
- Two 16-cylinder 2,200HP Cummins diesel engines
- 24x7 Operations Center
- Constant monitoring of systems, servers, infrastructure
- Prompt reaction and response for all three IU Data Centers
Enterprise Pod
- Houses the university's enterprise systems
- 11,000 square feet of raised floor space
- Designed as a Tier-3 facility in accordance with the Uptime Institute's four-tier model
- Designed for a power density of 100 watts per square foot
- 1MW power distribution
- Ten (4 currently, 6 in the future) power distribution units (PDU)
- 24 (12 currently, 12 in the future) remote power panels (RPP), each powered by two separate RPPs fed by two separate PDUs
- 2 rotary UPS with flywheel energy storage rated at 750kVA/675kW N+1 parallel configuration for Enterprise Pod
Research Pod
- Houses research and high performance computing hardware, as well as electrical and cooling redundancy
- 11,000 square feet of raised floor space
- 500kVA UPS along with back-up generators for HPC switches, head nodes, and all spinning disks
- 2MW power distribution design with engineered expansion capabilities
- 2 rotary UPS with flywheel energy storage rated at 1040kW for Research Pod