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News

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!

Interop, Tokyo 12 - 15 June

Webinar - Release 7 - 14 June

Webinar - Introduction to 6SigmaRoom - 22 May

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

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 - Using 6SigmaET in the Design of Outdoor Electronics - 10 July

Using 6SigmaRoomLite to Model the Effect of IT Loading - 24 July

Webinar: CFD Modeling of Efficiency Solutions - 15 Aug

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

6SigmaET Webinar - 21 August

6SigmaET Webinar - 23 August

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

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

Webinar - Predictive DCIM - 23 May 2013

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

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

Uptime Institute Symposium 2013, 13-16 May

DataCenterDynamics Conference and Expo, Washington DC 2 May 2013

Advancements in Thermal Management, 6-7 June

White Papers / Case Studies

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

Presentation - Stulz & 6SigmaDC user Panduit present the benefits of CFD simulation!

FFL Experts answer the big question: "Is CFD a must?" Read the white paper now!

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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