INTRODUCTION BUILDING SURVEY

• A project that looks into the design considerations for the implementation of comfort air- • The building survey is the preparation work / preliminary for cooling load calculations,
conditioning in a restaurant. identifying potential ducting layouts, equipment placement layout and other implementation
• One important particularity- The kitchen is a zone within the air-conditioned room. condition
• Looks into factors that can broadly be categorized as follows:
AIMS & OBJECTIVES • Geographical Location and Orientation of building- Important for calculation of solar heat
• A project that looks into the design considerations for the implementation of comfort air- gains
conditioning in a restaurant. • Use of spaces
• One important particularity- The kitchen is a zone within the air-conditioned room. • Construction Materials
• Physical
• Activities and Occupancy
• Surrounded spaces
• Indoor Design conditions
• Outdoor conditions (Outdoor Temperature & Relative humidity)

• All the above factors allow to formulate relevant Design Assumptions

Method COOLING LOAD CALCULATIONS

• Each generation of batch farm hardware with • CLF/CLTD Method based on ASHRAE Fundamentals
hyperthreading capability was benchmarked with
HEPSPEC, progressively increasing the number of
threads up to the total number of virtual cores
• Benchmarks at that time were conducted using
Scientific Linux 5. Scientific Linux 6 benchmarks
were run later as the batch farm was set to be
updated.
• Scientific Linux 6 performed slightly better than
Scientific Linux 5. The overall trend was identical
• Power, temperature, disk I/O and batch server
performance were closely monitored
• The results indicated a nearly linear increase in the
hepspec scores, flattening at about 14 threads for 2
CPU 4 core nodes and 20 threads for 2 CPU 6 core
nodes
• The revealed sweet spots were then configured for • Classification into Sensible and Latent loads
use in the batch farm to discover where production • Required Inputs from data collection (Building survey)
VO jobs would perform optimally • Verification with Design Builder simulation

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HEPSPEC results

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Conclusions
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2009-viglen • New procurements now take into account the hyperthreading capabilities
2010-clustervision
• For 2012, dual 8 core CPU systems go up to 32 virtual cores
HEPSPEC

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Systems were procured with 128 GB RAM in order to exploit full hyperthreading capabilities
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2011-dell • Dual Gigabit links, in the future single 10 GB as they became more cost effective
• So far RAID0 software raid setup has proven sufficient for disk I/O
• Performance gains so far on par with previous generations
• By spending a bit extra on RAM, we save more by buying fewer nodes
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• This also saves machine room space, cables, and power

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Number of threads

HESPEC % increase with full HT

25%

20%

15%

10%

5%

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Acknowledgements: RAL Tier1 team, especially John Kelly and James Adams