UC Merced's campus-wide computational cluster called the MERCED cluster is located in the Computational Research Facility we like to call The Borg Cube. The Borg Cube has been built as a part of UC Merced Project 2020 to facilitate computational research.
The Borg Cube includes a 1,448 square foot pre-manufactured, self-contained, fully serviceable data center-style building comprised of two (2) transportable modular containers, one section for electrical distribution and the other to house research computing machines.
This facility houses twenty (20) 19”-24” racks with 51U per rack, totaling 1020U and provides 400kW of N+1 redundant power capacity at the rack bus, providing the ability to provide individual racks with either redundant or non-redundant power supply units. The design includes two (2) 500kVA PDU’s each fed from separate sources backed up from dedicated 500kVA UPS which are connected to two (2) 800A rated Starline bus to account for single or dual corded customer connections.
