Real-Time 3D Visualization of Temperature Distribution for Data Center Thermal Management

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10.2991/icmt-13.2013.110How to use a DOI?

Keywords

real-time visualization, data center management, volume rendering, spatial interpolation.

Abstract

Heat management has become one of the most critical challenges to the rapid development of data centers. To address this issue, a 3D visualization technique is proposed in this paper to analyze and manage temperature distribution in data center rooms. At first, a room is divided into uniform grids and the temperature field is established by calculating temperature values for each cell using an inverse transfer distance weighted interpolation (ITDWI) algorithm with sensor data. Then, it visualizes these cells by voxel rendering. To improve performance, weights are pre-computed to accelerate interpolation. And two different rendering strategies are adopted to better understand temperature distribution. Our approach is deployed in an actual data center room in Chinese Academy of Sciences. By experiments, it can visualize the temperature field of the data center in real time, and the visualization results help to locate the hot spots conveniently and give a comprehensive view for thermal management.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Chen Xin
AU  - Zhen Hui
AU  - Han Yueqi
AU  - Wei Zhaoyang
AU  - Dong Jinong
AU  - Wu Kaichao
PY  - 2013/11
DA  - 2013/11
TI  - Real-Time 3D Visualization of Temperature Distribution for Data Center Thermal Management
BT  - Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Multimedia Technology(ICMT-13)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 888
EP  - 895
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icmt-13.2013.110
DO  - 10.2991/icmt-13.2013.110
ID  - Xin2013/11
ER  -