Best Showcase Award

Logan Horowitz, S. Tahmid Mahbub, Jiarui Zou, and Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski have received a Best Showcase Award at the 2024 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit. In collaboration with a team from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and other academic and industry partners, the Berkeley team developed technology that aims to drastically improve the efficiency of future data centers. Their work focused on the design of a thermal test vehicle (TTV) for assessing cooling solutions.

The ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit convenes experts from different technical disciplines and professional communities to address America’s energy challenges. The Summit offers a unique, three-day program, highlighting cutting-edge ideas with the most potential for meaningful impact.

Best Demo Award

Graduate students Logan Horowitz, S. Tahmid Mahbub, Jiarui Zou, and Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski have received a First Best Place Demo Award at the recent 2024 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo. Their innovative thermal test vehicle design provides a dynamic platform which simulates the heat generation of high-performance GPUs and CPUs, allowing engineers to evaluate cutting-edge cooling technologies with greater precision. By improving the efficiency and effectiveness of data center cooling, the project will contribute to energy savings and sustainability for next-generation, hyper-efficient data centers.