Dear Data Center Professionals,
The year of 2010 is nearly come to an end. We sincerely thank you for your continuous support and interest in our data centre training programmes.
In the forthcoming year, we will launch another new data centre course, CDCMP - Certified Data Centre Management Professional. It will be divided into section A (3-day) and section B (four 1-day) and organize with CNet Training in UK and Pacific Strategics Group in Singapore. The whole course will be launched in mid-2011. You may find more information from the course leaflet attached.
Other trainings in data center will be available in the following dates:
Seminar on Data Centre Operation Maintenance (1-day)
22 January 2011 (Saturday)
10:00 - 17:30
Eaton Hotel Hong Kong (lunch buffet included)
CDCDP, Section A (3-day Course, Certified Data Centre Design)
17 - 19 March 2011 (Thursday - Saturday)
10:00 - 17:30
CDCDP, Section B (Four 1-day Courses)
Data Centre Power - 23 February 2011 (Wednesday)
Data Centre Cooling - 24 February 2011 (Thursday)
Data Centre Efficiency - 25 February 2011 (Friday)
Data Centre Management - 26 February 2011 (Saturday)
10:00 - 17:30
May Love, Hope and Peace come to you in 2011.
Happy New Year
Thursday, 30 December 2010
New Beginning of Year 2011
Sunday, 14 November 2010
Supercomputer to go sugar cube-sized in few years
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LONDON: IBM scientists have said that a pioneering research effort could shrink the world's most powerful supercomputer processors to the size of a sugar cube.
The approach will see many computer processors stacked on top of one another, cooling them with water flowing between each one. The plan is to reduce computers' energy use, rather than just to shrink them.
Dr Bruno Michel said future computer costs would hinge on green credentials rather than speed.
Michel and his colleagues have already built a prototype to demonstrate the water-cooling principle. Called Aquasar, it occupies a rack larger than a refrigerator.
IBM estimates that Aquasar is almost 50 pc more energy-efficient than the world's leading supercomputers.
"In the past, computers were dominated by hardware costs - 50 years ago you could hold one transistor and it cost a dollar, or a franc," the BBC quoted Michel as saying at IBM's Zurich labs.
Now when the sums are done, he said, the cost of a transistor works out to 1/100th of the price of printing a single letter on a page. The overwhelming cause of those energy costs is in cooling, because computing power generates heat as a side product.
The Aquasar prototype clocked up nearly half again as much, at 1.1 billion operations. Now the task is to shrink it.
"We currently have built this Aquasar system that's one rack full of processors. We plan that 10 to 15 years from now, we can collapse such a system in to one sugar cube - we're going to have a supercomputer in a sugar cube."
The approach will see many computer processors stacked on top of one another, cooling them with water flowing between each one. The plan is to reduce computers' energy use, rather than just to shrink them.
Dr Bruno Michel said future computer costs would hinge on green credentials rather than speed.
Michel and his colleagues have already built a prototype to demonstrate the water-cooling principle. Called Aquasar, it occupies a rack larger than a refrigerator.
IBM estimates that Aquasar is almost 50 pc more energy-efficient than the world's leading supercomputers.
"In the past, computers were dominated by hardware costs - 50 years ago you could hold one transistor and it cost a dollar, or a franc," the BBC quoted Michel as saying at IBM's Zurich labs.
Now when the sums are done, he said, the cost of a transistor works out to 1/100th of the price of printing a single letter on a page. The overwhelming cause of those energy costs is in cooling, because computing power generates heat as a side product.
The Aquasar prototype clocked up nearly half again as much, at 1.1 billion operations. Now the task is to shrink it.
"We currently have built this Aquasar system that's one rack full of processors. We plan that 10 to 15 years from now, we can collapse such a system in to one sugar cube - we're going to have a supercomputer in a sugar cube."
Mark Stromberg, principal research analyst at Gartner, said that the approach was a promising one.
But he said that tackling the finer details of cooling - to remove heat from just the right parts of the chip stacks - would take significant effort.
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Wednesday, 3 November 2010
邁向專業認證 - 國際認可數據中心設計工程師專業資格
任何一個應用通訊網絡的商業機構都必須擁有相應的「設備」去支援其網絡需求，這些「設備」─ 我們慣常稱為數據中心、電腦房或網絡室 ─ 將是整個機構的神經系統，影響機構的日常運作。正因為數據中心扮演著重要角色，每當興建、擴張或改建數據中心時都需要專業工程人員，提供寶貴意見、分析及正確引用國際標準 (TIA-942)。
有見及此，香港設施工程學院與英國 CNet Training 聯合舉辦數據中心培訓課程，題目為「國際認可數據中心設計工程師專業資格」 (Certified Data Centre Design Professional - CDCDP)。是次培訓由業內資深專業人士及英國註冊工程師主講，內容包括設計數據中心時必須注意的各大要點：選址、裝修、電力安裝、線路及空間規劃、保安及消防系統設計、製冷及熱量管理和備用性。按這些要點設計電腦房或數據中心，不但可以排除非必要的網路停頓，還可以保證機構系統運作暢順。
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Friday, 24 September 2010
Data Centre Operation and Maintenance for Engineers and Facilities Managers
Data Centre Operation and Maintenance for Engineers and Facilities Managers
Key Features:
- Unearth success factors of operating aData Centre
- Explore the Power Supply and UPS SupplyPrinciple
- Examine how Fire Services ProtectionSystem works in a Data Centre
- How-to implement a Maintenance Strategyfor both Electrical and Mechanical Plant
- Acquire the latest technology and servicesfor managing and designing Data Centres
- Expand business network and realexperience in IT and other relevant industries
- Case studies by our seminar speaker
Exclusively design for participants of Certified Data Centre Design Professional (CDCDP)
Key Features:
- Unearth success factors of operating aData Centre
- Explore the Power Supply and UPS SupplyPrinciple
- Examine how Fire Services ProtectionSystem works in a Data Centre
- How-to implement a Maintenance Strategyfor both Electrical and Mechanical Plant
- Acquire the latest technology and servicesfor managing and designing Data Centres
- Expand business network and realexperience in IT and other relevant industries
- Case studies by our seminar speaker
Exclusively design for participants of Certified Data Centre Design Professional (CDCDP)
Thursday, 9 September 2010
「探討工程師專業及執業資格」系列活動 - 如何成為英國特許工程師 (CEng)
講座題目︰如何成為英國特許工程師 (CEng) - How to become a Chartered Engineer (CEng)
時間︰2010 年 5 月 29 日 (星期六) 下午 3︰30 至 5︰00
地點︰澳門工程師學會演講室
是次活動經已完滿結束。特別鳴謝澳門工程師學會 (AEM) 為是次活動招集各專業會員。
時間︰2010 年 5 月 29 日 (星期六) 下午 3︰30 至 5︰00
地點︰澳門工程師學會演講室
是次活動經已完滿結束。特別鳴謝澳門工程師學會 (AEM) 為是次活動招集各專業會員。
Monday, 6 September 2010
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