AI Data Centre · Level 3 of 8
Rack power budget
Level 3 of 8 in the AI Data Centre: a free data centre exercise at Intermediate level. Fill a rack with 8-GPU servers up to the PDU limit, balance the phases and prove the rack survives the loss of one feed.
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The brief
- Client
- Brightwater AI Hosting
- Site
- Hall 3, Riverside site
- Work order
- WO-DC-103
- Task code
- DC-03
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Type of work
- Power
Fill a rack with 8-GPU servers up to the PDU limit, balance the phases and prove the rack survives the loss of one feed.
Skills you practise
- PDU phases and the 80 % rule
- A and B redundancy
- Rack power budget
What the test checks
The acceptance test marks the skills this level practises.
- PDU phases and the 80 % rule
- A and B redundancy
- Rack power budget
In this lab
- Rack and cable GPU servers
- Power budgets and cooling
- GPU jobs and a DCIM view
Levels in the AI Data Centre
Part of the AI Data Centre
Walk an AI data hall, rack and cable a GPU server, and size its power and cooling.
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