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Date	Title	Files and Links
05/01/2016	Immersion Cooling of Electronics in DoD Installations This demonstration, which took place at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington D.C., consisted of a commercially available high-performance computer immersed in the 3M Novec 649 liquid.	ImmersionCooling2016.pdf
04/29/2016	Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency (DSIRE) The Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency (DSIRE) houses information on the financial incentives available for efficient data center equipment. The DSIRE database can be searched or filtered to access the relevant information.
04/26/2016	Revised Specifications for Data Centers for Incorporation in ECBC - 2016, India Presentation slides that introduce the data center specific technical specification/recommendations for the Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) in India.	CII_LBNLWorkingGroupPres_April2016 .pdf
04/21/2016	Better Buildings, Better Data Centers: Applying Best Practices Presentation given by Dale Sartor at Rocky Mountain Green 2016 in Denver, Colorado April 21-22, 2016.	RockyMountainGreen_Sartor042016.pdf
02/25/2016	Status Report on Accelerating Energy Efficiency in Indian Data Centers and Developing Core IT Metric to Report Energy Performance of Data Centers Presentation slides created to gather input on potential IT-specific energy performance metrics for reporting energy performance of data centers from a Core-IT Stakeholder Consultative Working Group in India.	India_CoreITgroupPresentation022016.pdf
01/14/2016	Embedded Data Centers This report provides an overview of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA’s) market research activities related to embedded data centers: server closets, server rooms, and localized data centers colocated in commercial, institutional, and ind	NEEA_EmbeddedDCs2016.pdf
01/01/2016	Accelerating Energy Efficiency in Indian Data Centers: Final Report for Phase I Activities This report documents Phase I of the “Accelerating Energy Efficiency in Indian Data Centers” initiative to support the development of an energy efficiency policy framework for Indian data centers.	IndiaFinalPhase1Report_LBNL2016.pdf
12/01/2015	2015 Executive Order For Federal Data Centers (article) Article by LBNL's Magnus Herrlin, and Bruce Myatt featured in Mission Critical Magazine's column, Zink Whiskers.
11/20/2015	Example Data Center Energy Efficiency Assessment Report Data center energy efficiency assessment completed for an anonymous federal agency (Agency X) using the Center of Expertise's assessment template.	Example_DC_EE_Assessment.pdf
11/15/2015	Node Variability in Large-Scale Power Measurements: Perspectives from the Green500, Top500 and EE HPC WG The last decade has seen power consumption move from an afterthought to the foremost design constraint of new supercomputers.	Node Variability in Large-Scale Power Measurements_ Perspectives from the Green500, Top500 and EE HPC WG.pdf
10/30/2015	Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) Data Centers Overview of FEMP's data center work including CoE.
10/30/2015	A practical approach to PUE (article) Article by LBNL featured in Data Center Dynamics' opinion section and online newsletter.
10/06/2015	Data Center Metering and Resource Guide Presentation Presentation given by Steve Greenberg at the 2015 Critical Facilities Summit.	CFS15_Greenberg_MeteringGuide102015.pdf
09/18/2015	DC Pro - Full List of Questions List of questions in the DC Pro tool, V4. Document can be printed to gather the required information offline.	DC Pro Questions Checklist_09182015.docx
09/10/2015	PUE Estimator - Full List of Questions List of questions in the PUE Estimator tool, V1. Document can be printed to gather the required information offline.	PUE Estimator Questions Checklist_09102015_0.docx
08/10/2015	Better Buildings, Better Data Centers: Applying Best Practices Presentation slides from Dale Sartor's Data Center Energy Efficiency Best Practices Workshop. The workshop was hosted as an Energy Exchange pre-training event in Phoenix, Arizona.	Energy Exchange DC Workshop_08102015.pdf
07/13/2015	United States Telecom Association USTelecom is the nation's leading trade association representing broadband service providers and suppliers.
07/13/2015	Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG) The Silicon Valley Leadership Group is a public policy business trade organization.
07/13/2015	Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) The Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. conducts research, development and demonstration (RD&D) relating to the generation, delivery and use of electricity for the benefit of the public.
07/13/2015	AFCOM AFCOM advances data center professionals by delivering comprehensive and vendor-neutral education and peer-to-peer networking to its members around the globe.
07/13/2015	The Up Time Institute The Uptime Institute focuses on improving uptime management in Data Center Facilities and Information Technology organizations. Members represent Fortune 500 companies who collectively and interactively learn from each other.
07/13/2015	7x24 The 7X24 Exchange is an industry association who's goal is to improve end to end reliability by promoting an exchange of information between those that design, build, and maintain data center facilities.
06/30/2015	Energy Efficient High Performance Computing Power Measurement Methodology This document recommends a methodological approach for measuring, recording, and reporting the power used by a high performance computer (HPC) system while running a workload.	Energy Efficient High Performance Computing Power Measurement Methodology.pdf
06/15/2015	DOE's Better Buildings Data Center Partnerships Applying Best Practices to Meet the Challenge Presentation given by Dale Sartor at the Data Center and Computing Conference in New York, NY.	NYC_DataCenterConference_52015.pdf
05/19/2015	The Emerging Chinese Market for Energy Efficient Data Centers Presentation from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) webinar, The Emerging Chinese Market for High Performance Data Centers.	China Data Center EE Opportunities 20150519.pdf