Next-Generation Data Center Workshop

The Midwest RCD is organizing a workshop on Next Generation Data Centers. This is a 1.5 day event with presentations, breakout sessions, and panels.

We encourage involvement from research computing and data professionals in institutions of higher education, data center operators, architects, facilities managers or engineers, and others involved in implementing organizational change management in data centers. Come and share information, receive updates on roadmap plans, and network with each other.

The Workshop is a great opportunity to hear directly from data center architects and invited vendor subject matter experts. Come hear experts share their data center futures and chip requirements roadmap and stories from the trenches.

Dates

The Next Generation Data Center Workshop will be held at:
IU Indianapolis Campus Center
February 25-26, 2025

Registration

Register for the workshop: https://forms.gle/zrDCCJhN4kCieoYP6

Agenda

Draft Agenda: SCHED Agenda

Let us know your interests and priorities: https://forms.gle/Mny4EaFWCxyJgErU7

The community is invited to rank topics of interest and submit proposals for sessions to help us determine the final program:

• Direct liquid cooling best practices
• Considerations for power-dense hardware needs
• Designing for flexibility to adapt to large system installations
• Experiences retrofitting existing data centers for modern power and cooling needs.
• Providing services to different regulated computing environments (HIPAA, CMMC, etc). 
• Modular data centers
• Shared data center access
• Facility availability targets / Tiers of service
• Financial models for facility construction, expansion, or sustainability
• People skill sets to operate a liquid cooled facility vs. air cooled
• Environmental sustainability in data center technologies; tradeoffs between liquid cooling and air cooling; meeting campus sustainability goals.