Northwestern UniversityDialogue on October 26, 2007

EYP Mission Critical Facilities, Inc.200 West Adams Street, Suite 2750Chicago, IL 60606312-846-8500

Albany – Atlanta – Chicago – Dallas – London – Los Angeles – Middletown – New York City – San Francisco – Washington DC – White Plains

Agenda

| Firm Overview and Experience

| Research University Data Center Trends

| Q&A

Firm Overview

Firm Overview| EYP A&E founded in 1972; EYP MCF becomes stand-alone firm in

2001

| 300-person international MEP/FP Engineering Design, MEP/FP Systems Operations and IT Consulting firm

| 95% of current projects are data centers

| Best-in-class experience in planning, design, construction, migration and project management of HPC and Tiered Data Centers

| HPC and high-density cooling thought leadership

| Designed fifteen 15+MW data centers, including five 35+MW data centers

| In-house building performance simulation tools to develop cost/benefit strategies and reduce unnecessary costs

| CFD Modeling

| Reliability Modeling

| Energy Modeling

| Cost Modeling

EYP MCF Firm Overview| Designed 32 million sq. ft. of data centers | Planned and designed 50+ Greenfield data

centers since 2001| 800 MW power/back-up power systems design

since 2001| 200,000 tons of critical cooling design in the last

5 years| 23 million sq. ft. of data center risk, reliability &

feasibility assessments| Commissioned 15 million sq. ft. of critical

facilities| Breadth of experience to bring multiple options

to the table | Designing in flexibility & scalability| We know higher costs don’t equate with higher

reliability & efficiency| Team very driven by client satisfaction, trust,

communication, and long-term relationships

| Collaborating with IBM, HP and Dell, we understand the evolution taking place in computing technologies – also assessing & designing this trio’s own data centers

| LBNL data center energy consumption benchmarking study

| Close working relationship with the Uptime Institute/Computer Site Engineering

| Vendor, contractor and real estate relationships

| Industry and International Publications

EYP MCF Strategic Industry Leadership

EYP MCF Chicago Office — est. January 2004׀ Office at 200 West Adams Street, one block east of Sears Tower

׀ EYP MCF Center of Excellence re:

׀ Strategic Consulting for IT and facilities infrastructure

׀ Greenfield data centers

׀ High-performance computing

׀ Sustainability/energy efficiency/LEED

׀ Building performance simulation

׀ EYP MCF Chicago’s accomplishments over the last 3 years:

׀ 200+ projects equating to $2+ Billion in construction

׀ 60 corporate and institutional clients

׀ 40 talented professionals on staff

׀ 30 invitations from national organizations to present and publish our thought-leader expertise in the design of high-reliability and high-performance facilities

Representative Clients

Representative Clients – Higher Education

Representative Clients – HPC

Representative Experience

| Providing strategic consulting services

| Determining the best options for data center consolidation

| Determining the requirements for a purpose-built data center to accommodate future enterprise computing needs

| Schematic design and ROM cost estimates

University of Illinois

Urbana-Champaign, IL

| New Greenfield 81,000 sq. ft. building housing 28,200 sq. ft. of scalable HPC machine rooms

| Master planning, feasibility study, programming, data center layout, development of power and cooling loads and high-level design concepts, and ROM construction cost estimating

| Requires in excess of 8,000 tons of chilled water and in excess of 25 MW of power  

NCSA/UIUC

׀ 80,000 sq. ft. data center part of new Greenfield Cyber Infrastructure Building complex

׀ Provided programming, conceptual design, order of magnitude cost estimating, design development-level drawings, construction documents peer reviews, and construction administration services

׀ 20,000 sq. ft. of research computing raised floor for academic research computing

׀ 10,000 sq. ft. of Tier III raised floor for enterprise data center

׀ Anticipated load densities of 100-300 W/sq. ft.

׀ Also, data center risk assessments and feasibility studies of three existing sites to support future research computing expansion scenarios

Indiana University

Bloomington, IN

Children’s Memorial Hospital

Chicago, IL

| Overall Technology Infrastructure Consultant for a new 1 million square foot replacement hospital building

| Performing a variety of services throughout the planning, design, construction, and migration phases

| Delivering IT/network and medical technology consulting

| Conceptual designs

| Final designs

| Migration planning/execution

| Project management of the entire technology infrastructure build-out and the eventual migration efforts

| 13,800 sq ft supercomputing machine room

| Data Center Assessment, CFD Modeling, and Master Planning for multiple upgrade/expansion scenarios

| Analysis of load increase from 100 W/sq ft to 150 W/sq ft to 300+ W/sq ft

San Diego, CA

San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD

׀ Ranked #7 on TOP500 June 2007 list

׀ New 70TFlops Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovation (CCNI)

׀ Conversion of existing manufacturing building into a new, state-of-the-art computing facility with BlueGene/L machine and blade servers

׀ 5,000 sq. ft. of 48” raised floor area at 250-300 W/sq. ft. (zones approaching 600 W/sq. ft.

׀ 7,500 SF of office/hoteling area and 7,500 SF of mechanical/electrical support space

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (opened September 2007)

Troy, NY

׀ Goal is to be in Top 3 on TOP500 June 2008 list

׀ New Interim Supercomputing Support Facility (ISSF) within existing high-bay lab building

׀ Supports a BlueGene/P supercomputer with 44 kW per rack loads

׀ ISSF will house a 100 TFlops system, expandable to 500TFlops, then 1PFlop

׀ Master planning, feasibility study, and conceptual design for new Greenfield 160,000 sq. ft. Theory & Computational Sciences facility to house 10sPFlop system

Argonne National Laboratory (opened October 10, 2007)

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Computational Research and Theory Building – LEED Silver*

Research University Data Center Trends

University Benchmarking

Academic Research Computing ׀ Quality of research computing facilities is increasingly

a point of separation for top institutions.׀ Existing data centers cannot accommodate the

projected high growth rates especially for power and cooling .

׀ New researchers often require research computing resources immediately. (ND Engineering college stated 50% of their new hires require new research computing resources.)

׀ Top researchers also bring funding opportunities if computing facilities are available.

University Benchmarking

University Conceptual Scenario 1

Administrative and other non-HPC (~100 Watts/sq ft)

׀ Usually combined into a single data center

׀ Administrative space utilizes more traditional corporate enterprise computing reliability model

׀ Slower growth rates

University Benchmarking

University Conceptual Scenario 2

HPC for research only use (> 200 Watts/sq ft)

׀ Separate purpose-built HPC data center facility only

׀ Very high power and cooling density with lower reliability goals

׀ Usually associated with a specific NSF grant (e.g., Track 1 and Track 2 grants)

University Benchmarking

University Conceptual Scenario 3Combined general University and HPC facility (~100 to 200+

Watts/sq ft) ׀ Usually combined into a single data center׀ Typically a blended reliability/power density

infrastructure addressing both general university and HPC needs

׀ More cost-effective versus stand-alone facilities׀ Requires separation of general university and research

raised floor areas for security, accessibility and reliability

University Trends Matrix (All AAU Member Institutions)

Institution Administrative (ft²) Research (ft²) Power (watts/ft²) Redundancy

UIUC (Planned) 13,200 7500 130 N + 1/ N

Indiana University 10,000 20,000

HPC Standalone

166 Tier 3/Tier 2

University of Chicago 6,000 3,200 Unknown Tier 2/Tier 1

University of Texas 15,000

Regional DC

10,000 125 Tier 3/Tier 1

University of Minnesota 6,000 4,000 150 - 200 Tier 3/Tier 1

Stanford 17,000 33,000 Unknown Unknown

Cornell 8,500 20,000 Unknown Tier 3

Princeton 5.000 10,000 Unknown Unknown

University of Washington 6,000 12,000 150 Tier2 /Tier1 or NT

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This is where we are now

Four Tier System

Tier 1 – Basic Non-Redundant Data Center

| Single path for power and cooling distribution without redundant components

Tier 2 – Basic Redundant Data Center

| Single path for power and cooling distribution with redundant components

Tier 3 – Concurrently Maintainable Data Center

|Multiple paths for power and cooling distribution with only one path active and with redundant components

Tier 4 – Fault Tolerant Data Center

|Multiple active power and cooling distribution paths with redundant components and fault tolerant

Site AvailabilityTIER 1 TIER 2 TIER 3 TIER 4

SITE AVAILABILITY 99.67% 99.75% 99.98% 99.99%

OUTAGE OVER 5 YEARS 144 HOURS 110 HOURS 8 HOURS 4 HOURS

Sample - Rough Order of Magnitude Cost Estimate*

INFRASTRUCTURE CONCEPT Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3

7500 FT² Day 1

with 2500 FT² Shell

80 WATTS / FT²

600 KW Total

$8,200,000 $8,800,000 $14,200,000

Ultimate Build Out

10,000 FT²

120 WATTS / FT²

1200 KW Total

$14,200,000 $15,400,000 $26,200,000

* Utilizing the Uptime Institute data center cost estimation methodology

* Actual data center cost may vary widely (more than 20%) based on final design

Public Law 109-431

To study and promote the use of energy-efficient computer servers in the United States

Questions/Discussion

Michael Thomas312.846.8515mthomas@eypmcf.com

Bill Kosik, PE, CEM, LEED AP312.846.8510wkosik@eypmcf.com

Tom Kutz 312.846.8546tkutz@eypmcf.com

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