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Future Facilities and RF Code Form A Strategic Partnership to Integrate Wire-Free Environmental Monitoring and Simulation Based Capacity Planning for Data Centers

Future Facilities and SynapSense™ Partner on Data Center Modelling

Future Facilities and nlyte Software Partner to Provide Industry's First Fully Integrated Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Solution

Intel's in-server sensor data tests within 6SigmaDC prove positive

Future Facilities Announces Participation in Facebook's Open Compute Project

Future Facilities Named "Cool Vendor" in the DCIM Space by Leading Industry Analyst Firm

Release 7 Now Available!

Virtual Facility Integration with Intel Thermal Data Feeds for Improved Control of Data Centre Cooling

RTKL Associates Select 6SigmaRoomLite

Release 7.1 Now Available!

Fujitsu PRIMERGY Servers Added to 6SigmaDC Library

Events

Registration is open for 2011 6SigmaDC Conference & User Training!

Future Facilties at DataCentre Convergence 2011 - October 4!

Webinar - How to Kill Your Data Center: Ignore Airflow!! - 20th October 2011

Webinar - Can You Afford Lost Capacity? Tuesday 6th March, 8am & 11am PST

Webinar - Introduction to 6SigmaRoomLite - 15 May

Interop, Tokyo 12 - 15 June

Webinar - Release 7 - 14 June

Webinar - Introduction to 6SigmaRoom - 22 May

Webinar - Can You Afford Lost Capacity? - 5 June

We'll be there... will you? Uptime Symposium 14 - 17 May

Webinar - Electronics Cooling Design using 6SigmaET - 12 June

Webinar - Data Center Modeling MUST DOs! - 19 June

Webinar - CFD Modeling of Efficiency Solutions - 26 June

6SigmaDC Training Class - 27 to 29 June

ASHRAE 2012 Annual Conference, San Antonio, 23-27 June

Webinar: CFD Modeling of Efficiency Solutions - 15 Aug

6SigmaET Webinar - 2 August

6SigmaET Webinar - 7 August

Seminar: The Data Centre Capacity Challenge: Can DCIM Help?

6SigmaET Webinar - 20 September

6SigmaET Webinar - 4 October

IDF 2012 11-13 September

6SigmaDC Server Challenge... The Results Are In!

DataCenterDynamics Conference and Expo, London 14-15 November 2012

6SigmaET Webinar - 11 December

6SigmaET Webinar - 20 December

Webinar - Data Center Modeling MUST DOs! - 28 Nov

Webinar - Can You Afford Lost Capacity? - 29 Nov

DataCenterDynamics Conference and Expo, Istanbul 4 December 2012

Server Design Summit 27-28 Nov

DataCenterDynamics Conference and Expo, New York 13 March 2013

Data Centre World, 27-28 February 2013

SEMI-THERM 29, San Jose 17-21 March 2013

DCIM Academy Webinar - Reclaim Lost Capacity in your Data Center - 30 Jan 2013

Webinar - Predictive DCIM - 23 May 2013

Webinar - Predictive DCIM - 27 June 2013

Webinar - BEWARE... When Cooling Pratices Fail!, Part 1 - 21 May

Webinar - BEWARE... When Cooling Pratices Fail!, Part 2 - 25 June

Data Center World, Las Vegas, 28 April - 2 May 2013

Uptime Institute Symposium 2013, 13-16 May

DataCentresEurope, Nice 28-29 May

White Papers

Colt Presentation: "6SigmaDC: The Only Way..." - as given at 2011 6SigmaDC Conference

Integral Group Presentation: "Direct Liquid Cooling of OpenCompute Project Reference Design..." - as given at 2011 6SigmaDC Conference

Intel Presentation: "New Standard for Data Center Thermal Sensors, Efficiency & Cooling Control" - as given at 2011 6SigmaDC Conference

Future Facilities Presentation: "Welcome to the Model Data Center" - as given at 2011 6SigmaDC Conference

Download Seminar Presentations from 2011 6SigmaDC Data Center Conference!

DLB Associates Presentation: "Achieving Energy Efficient Data Centers..." - as given at 2011 6SigmaDC Conference

The 451 Group Presentation: "Data Center Infrastucture Management Software..." - as given at 2011 6SigmaDC Conference

Facebook Presentation: "The OpenCompute Project..." - as given at 2011 6SigmaDC Conference

White Paper: The Elephant in the Room is Lost Capacity

White Paper: Predicitive DCIM

White Paper: Billion Dollar Drain

White Paper: Optimization in the Virtual Data Center

Hardware Recommendations

6SigmaDC is a program suite that will require different levels of hardware resource depending on the size and complexity of the models it is used to create and run.
For the sake of basic training and other small models (< 500sqft), it will run on a standard laptop with 1GB RAM and integrated graphics.
Any other modelling use is likely to require more powerful hardware.
The license server component, which can be installed separately on a remote machine, requires very little resource and should run on any supported Windows PC.
Supported Operating Systems. 32 and 64bit: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003,Windows Server 2008, Windows HPC Server 2008.
Virtual machines are not recommended.

Example configurations for mid-range systems:
Laptop - Mobile Core i7, 4-8GB RAM, Discrete graphics, 500GB HDD
Desktop - Core i7 or Xeon UP, 12GB RAM, nVidia Quadro FX 580, 1TB HDD
Server - Xeon DP or MP, 32GB+ RAM, nVidia Quadro FX 1800, 1TB HDD

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