APC and Carnegie Mellon University Announce the APC Fellowships for Data Center Efficiency Research

APC by Schneider Electric, a global leader in integrated critical power and cooling services, together with Carnegie Mellon University today announce the establishment of the APC Fellowships for Data Center Efficiency Research. The APC Research Fellowships support Ph.D. students at Carnegie Mellon with research foci in the broad area of data center efficiency.

APC Research Fellowships are part of an ongoing collaboration between APC and Carnegie Mellon focused on data center efficiency. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, data center energy costs account for 1.5 percent of the total USA energy consumption, at approximately $4.5 billion per year. Worse, trends indicate that such consumption will double by 2011.

"Energy efficiency is becoming the most critical issue for the data center industry as power and cooling costs increase," said Aaron Davis, chief marketing officer, APC. "APC and Carnegie Mellon are committed to helping the next generation of research focus on these significant concerns in our industry through programs such as the APC Fellowships for Data Center Efficiency Research."

"APC and Carnegie Mellon share the common desire to reduce the energy required to achieve computation and storage goals in data centers," said Bill Courtright, executive director of the Carnegie Mellon Parallel Data Lab. "Together we are developing new tools and programs to allow even more students to examine these critical issues."

Working together, APC and Carnegie Mellon are developing measurement environments, such as the Data Center Observatory at Carnegie Mellon, and exploring technologies to improve data center efficiency across all levels, including power and cooling infrastructures, power-conscious cluster design, and virtualization and software control of VM placement.

The APC Research Fellowship program is intended to increase the number of students engaged in data center efficiency research, and recipients are encouraged to use the Data Center Observatory for measurement and experimentation. Prospective and existing Ph.D. students with appropriate research interests can apply for an APC Research Fellowship. Awarded students must be admitted to and enroll in a relevant program at Carnegie Mellon. The APC Research Fellowship will cover (up to $50,000) tuition and stipend, at the recipient's department's standard rates, for one year.

Fellowship applicants will be required to pass an online Data Center University course as well as fulfill Carnegie Mellon's Fellowship requirements. Data Center University by APC is a program of online courses that focuses on the delivery of knowledge, skills, techniques and processes essential to data center design, build and operations.

For more information on how to apply please visit http://promo.apc.com and submit keycode e281w.

About APC

APC by Schneider Electric, a global leader in critical power and cooling services, provides industry leading product, software and systems for home, office, data center and factory floor applications. Backed by the strength, experience, and wide network of Schneider Electric's Critical Power & Cooling Services, APC delivers well planned, flawlessly installed and maintained solutions throughout their lifecycle. Through its unparalleled commitment to innovation, APC delivers pioneering, energy efficient solutions for critical technology and industrial applications. In 2007, Schneider Electric acquired APC and combined it with MGE UPS Systems to form Schneider Electric's Critical Power & Cooling Services Business Unit, which recorded 2007 revenue of $3.5 billion (EUR 2.4 billion) and employed 12,000 people worldwide. APC solutions include uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), precision cooling units, racks, physical security and design and management software, including APC's InfraStruXure® architecture the industry's most comprehensive integrated power, cooling, and management solution. Schneider Electric, with 120,000 employees and operations in 102 countries, had 2007 annual sales of $25 billion (EUR 17.3 billion). For more information on APC, please visit www.apc.com . All trademarks are the property of their owners.

About Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon is a private research university with a distinctive mix of programs in engineering, computer science, robotics, business and public policy, fine arts and the humanities. More than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive an education characterized by its focus on creating and implementing solutions for real problems, interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation. A small student-to-faculty ratio provides an opportunity for close interaction between students and professors. While technology is pervasive on its 144-acre Pittsburgh campus, Carnegie Mellon is also distinctive among leading research universities for world-renowned programs in its College of Fine Arts.

A global university, Carnegie Mellon has campuses in Silicon Valley, Calif., Qatar, and programs in Asia, Australia and Europe. For more, see www.cmu.edu .