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Welcome[edit]

Welcome to the OCP Advanced Cooling Facilities (ACF) Incubation Subproject.

This Project is open to the public and we welcome all those who would like to be involved.

Mission: The Advanced Cooling Facilities Incubation Subproject mission is to develop best practices, create collaboration documents and common guidelines facilitating the integration of Advanced Cooling Solutions into Data Center Facilities.

Seeking to advance the acceptance, performance, reliability and minimize risk/cost of Advanced Cooling Solutions into any data center facility, but especially OCP Ready™ facilities.

Disclaimer: Please do not submit any confidential information to the Project Community. All presentation materials, proposals, meeting minutes and/or supporting documents are published by OCP and are open to the public in accordance to OCP's Bylaws and IP Policy. This can be found on the OCP OCP Policies page. If you have any questions please contact OCP.

Project Leadership[edit]

Sub-project Leads[edit]

- John Gross (J. M. Gross Engineering, LLC), John Menoche (Vertiv)

Current Workstreams[edit]

- Guidelines for Connection of Advanced Cooling Solutions (ACS) to Data Center Facility Water Systems OCP guidance on standardized methods of connecting of liquid cooled IT to cooling loops. All are welcome to comment.

- Data Center Liquid Distribution Guidance & Reference Designs OCP Guidance, Reference Designs – Adding Liquid Cooling loops to Data Centers. All are welcome to comment.

- BIM Standards - All are welcome to comment.

- Physical Parameters Survey - All are welcome to comment. Please log into your OCP Google account, create a new Sheet from Template and rename to something representing your product. Download a copy and email to John Gross. John Menoche will not receive these files due to a commercial conflict, as Vertiv is a manufacturer of RDHx units.

> Immersion Product Parameter Template (Google Sheets) (Microsoft Excel)

> RDHx Product Parameter Template (Google Sheets) (Microsoft Excel)

Documents[edit]

- ACF Overview

- ACF Presentation to OCP IC

- DCF Consolidated Charter

- OCP Presentation Template - please contact Michael Schill or Archna Haylock for a copy

- Reliability Science Paper: Defining "Mission Critical" Performance

Get Involved[edit]

- ACF Mailing List

- OCP DCF Website

- OCP Projects Calendar

Regular Project Calls[edit]

- This project currently meets every other Tuesday at 1100 ET

Call-in info and source of truth @ https://www.opencompute.org/projects/heat-reuse-incubation
If there is ever a conflict between calendar invites, the OCP Project Calendar info on the website prevails. This call is open to the public.

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