July 13, 2009

The answers are blowing in the wind

Nor-Tech building cluster to help improve efficiency at wind farms

Researchers at a major university developing computational models for optimizing underwater turbines will be using a Nor-Tech cluster for a Dept. of Energy funded project to help generate clean energy for New York City.

The research team will use powerful computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools for analyzing the design and enhancing the environmental compatibility of the turbine rotors, turbine system, and array levels. Turbine wakes will be analyzed in order to determine turbine-turbine and turbine-channel interactions for array optimization and feedback to the turbine design process.

The high-resolution CFD tools developed for tidal turbines will also be used to resolve wind turbine wakes and optimize wind farms in yet another renewable energy project that recently started at the university lab, which will include a virtual wind simulator, a multi-scale computational tool for siting wind farms.

Nor-Tech's cluster uses constant bisectional bandwidth Infiniband and a fat tree network, which can be tailored to efficiently use any bandwidth made available by packaging and communications technology, and has become the preferred network for Infiniband cluster architecture. The cluster also takes advantage of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), an application protocol for querying and modifying directory services running over TCP/IP.

For more information on Nor-Tech’s complete line of cluster solutions, visit:
www.nor-tech.com/clusters   

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