Lost River Data Center Tier II Facility
Lost River Data Center Tier II Facility
The LRDC is a joint venture between BGMU Fiber, a division of Bowling Green Municipal Utilities, and Western Kentucky University. The LRDC is located in WKU’s Center for Research and Development and is a Tier II co-location facility offering businesses a secure site to locate servers and business critical data. Features of the Lost River Data Center:
- Redundant UPS systems
- 2 Generators
- 2 Cooling Towers
- Waterless Fire Suppression
- 24 x 7 Access
- Remotely Monitored Security Cameras
- Redundant Fiber Connections
- Build Room
- Lockable Cabinets
- Full Cabinet – 42 Rack Units
- Half Cabinet – 20 Rack Units
- Quarter Cabinet – 9 Rack Units
The LRDC is home to WKU’s High Performance Computing Center (HPCC) which is designed with “green” technology. The HPCC provides:
- High Quality 24/7 Support
- 3 Clusters of 128 Nodes with 8 Cores per Node
- and 32GB Ram
- 1 Cluster of 17 Nodes with over 7000 GPU
- Cores and 96GB Memory per Node
- 200 TB Storage with Robotic Tape Backup
Lost River Data Center Tier II Facility
Teresa Newman
270-535-4542
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