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Overview

Data Center Software for Optimized Data Center Design

Cadence Reality DC Design (formerly 6SigmaRoom/DCX by Future Facilities) helps create fast and accurate data center digital twin models of existing or future data centers. The models can be used to explore multiple design configurations and failure scenarios to deliver cutting-edge data center design or reimagine existing legacy data centers.

By working in a virtual environment to maximize data center resilience, physical capacity, and cooling efficiency, companies can reduce costs and minimize failures while pursuing their sustainability goals.

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Key Benefits

Optimize Data Center Cooling Design

Model any cooling strategy, including liquid cooling, (non-)raised floors, fan walls, in-row, and (in)direct adiabatic evaporative cooling

Model the External Environment

Analyze external factors, including wind profiles, terrain roughness, humidity, solar gain, and generator exhaust emission contamination

Evaluate Data Center Design Resilience

Gain insight into data center performance with transient simulations, including failure of critical power and cooling infrastructure

Accelerate Modeling and Reporting Process

Import CAD and building information modeling (BIM) data, simplify modeling with 8,000+ intelligent vendor items, and create customized, automated reports to demonstrate designs

Features

Leverage CFD for Conceptual Prototyping to Detailed Design

Create a virtual working environment for designers to test configurations to maximize data center resilience, physical capacity, and cooling efficiency

Prioritize sustainable data center design with carbon usage analytics and energy efficiency reports
Simulate chilled water distribution, liquid cooling, or ducted air with the inbuilt 1D flow network
Model the power network to show RPP and PDU schedules, breaker overloads, phase balance, and more
Model any modern control system using temperature, pressure, humidity, or velocity sensors
Export photorealistic images and movies in gif, mp4, and other formats to demonstrate design performance
Streamline modeling and reporting with smart items, solver automation, and single-click reporting

Design Software

Cadence Reality DC Design is available in several configurations

Cadence Reality DC Design: Essential

Image of a DataCenter Design Software: Essential model at the initial design stage with a basic cabinet layout

This entry-level software package is for conceptual data center design to cabinet-level with eight-core solving capability. This package best suits designers working on less complex models with conceptual design data.

Cadence Reality DC Design: Advanced

An image visualizing the airflow path into the IDEC intakes of an external model

This software configuration enables the simulation of next-generation data centers, inside and out, with 32-core solving capability. This package is for advanced users who need to model complex data center environments to the cabinet and IT level using time-based simulations, 3D CAD integrations, and BIM. This option can simulate both the internal data center space and the external environment.

Cadence Reality DC Design: Pro

A DataCenter Design Software: Pro model demonstrating airflow paths in the cold and hot aisle and a temperature plane intersecting the hot aisle

This fully comprehensive software suite offers best-in-class design software for simulating the complete data center ecosystem from chip to chiller with 32-core solving capability. This package offers all the prior package functionalities with the addition of power, flow, data networks, and weight modeling capability. The Pro package enables the automation of tasks such as editing, solving, and reporting. It can integrate with other tools and import data for seamless model updates.

CUSTOMER STORIES

Cadence Reality DC Design Customers

Kao Data has worked together with Cadence to run CFD simulation to validate both internal and external data center design and operations. Their work and expertise with digital twin technology has been instrumental in helping us make better, more informed decisions for our business and clients.

Paul Finch, Kao Data

The design of a data center can be very involved, so it is important for modeling software to be as easy to use as possible. The program has a very wide range of capabilities: so much so that after two years, I haven’t used them all yet! What I have used has produced interesting and useful results for our clients.

Clifford Saunders, PPA Consulting

We’ve been a Cadence Reality DC Design customer for years. Our CFD offering is integral to the designs we deliver, so a best-in-class data centre-specific tool is the first necessary step. The software models realistic control systems, utilizes 1D networks to better simulate cooling failures, and is easy to use.

Maira Bana, RED Engineering

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