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Pilot site at Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) – Poland

Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) operates a high-performance computing (HPC) facility providing advanced computing and networking infrastructure for science and industry. The main data center’s total power usage exceeds 2 MW, and it is supported by a secondary air-cooled data center and a smaller testbed comprising 20 heterogeneous nodes.

The testbed, with a peak load exceeding 10 kW and average energy consumption of 65 MWh, is connected to renewable energy sources, including 20 kWp off-grid and 50 kWp on-grid PV systems. It plays a key role in the development and validation of HEATWISE technologies.

Key Features:

  • Supercomputing center using Direct Liquid Cooling for HPC systems
  • Waste heat is reused to heat office spaces for over 500 employees
  • Integration with renewable PV systems (70 kWp combined)
  • Dynamic, real-world platform for validating waste heat recovery and energy management innovations

This will explore waste heat reuse strategies by recovering excess heat from the main data center for use in external buildings and analyzing the potential for heat reuse across other PSNC-operated facilities.