6SigmaDC's new 6SigmaET module colorfully models data center cooling design.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Future Facilities (www.futurefacilities.com) has released version five of its data center design and operations software suite 6SigmaDC, featuring new software modules and plug-ins to increase the usability, functionality and scope of its modelling capabilities to include the cooling design of IT equipment.
According to Future Facilities’ Thursday announcement, 6SigmaDC 5 has added the 6SigmaET module to address the cooling design of IT equipment. The 6SigmaDC is an integrated software suite, which includes 6SigmaRoom for design and layout of new and upgraded facilities, 6SigmaRack for rack and cabinet configuration, and 6SigmaFM to test new layouts and configurations as the data center evolves throughout the engineering lifecycle.
“In addition to being substantially easier to use, Release 5 extends the Virtual Facility, 3-D modelling concept to everything from the design of IT equipment to the design of the data center, and continues with load capacity planning throughout the facility lifecycle,” Future Facilities chief executive officer Hassan Moezzi said in a statement.
Helping data center designers, owners and operators make the most effective and efficient use of facility power, cooling and space, while minimizing the risk of thermal shutdowns, 6SigmaRack has also made rack and cabinet modelling easier and more accurate. It offers a new cable arm component that makes it easier to represent the obstruction of airflow caused by cable arms, and IT equipment without airflow can now be included in the model to complete the inventory and heat input and power draw simulations.
“The use of 6SigmaET means an end to many of the ‘design assumptions’ which have been traditionally used for facility design decision-making,” Moezzi said. “Design assumptions indicate outmoded thinking and have no real place in 21st Century data center design. With 6SigmaET we can replace them with solid mathematical predictions.”
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