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| 04/01/2012 |
Energy Efficiency Opportunities in Federal High Performance Computing Centers This case study includes the results of the assessments, lessons learned, and recommended EEMs. Author(s): Mahdavi, R. |
 HPCMP Case Study _Mahdavi-April 2012.pdf |
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| 01/01/2011 |
Energy Efficient and Lower Capital Cost — an Alternative Data Center Cooling Strategy In the first section of this paper we review various ways of cooling with air and demonstrate that the distance of the heat generator to the cold sink plays a large part in the total cooling energy consumption. |
ASHRAE Cooling Strategy Pres_2011.pdf |
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| 03/30/2004 |
Energy Efficient Data Centers (Report to California Energy Commission) Prior to this study, very little public information concerning the true electrical power requirements for California’s data centers was available. Author(s): Tschudi, B., T. Xu, D. Sartor, B. Nordman, J. Koomey, and O. Sezgen |
Energy Efficient Data Centers Report to CEC_2004.pdf |
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| 08/14/2017 |
Energy Exchange 2017: Better Buildings, Better Data Centers Presentation from the August 14th, 2017 1/2 day pre-conference Energy Exchange Workshop. |
Energy Exchange Data Center Workshop 081117.pdf |
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| 01/01/2008 |
Energy Implications of Economizer Use in California Data Centers In this paper, based on building energy models, we report energy savings for air-side and water-side economizer use in data centers in several climate zones in California. |
Economizer Use CA_2008pdf.pdf |
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ENERGY STAR Data Centers
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ENERGY STAR Data Centers Digital Realty improves efficiency, achieves ENERGY STAR |
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| 02/02/2017 |
ENERGY STAR Office Equipment web page ENERGY STAR page that includes links to purchase ENERGY STAR Certified servers, storage, UPSs, and large network equipment. |
ENERGY STAR Office Equipment | |
| 06/22/2017 |
ENERGY STAR Page on Enterprise Servers Overview of ENERGY STAR certified Enterprise Servers. |
ENERGY STAR Page on Enterprise Servers | |
| 04/30/2015 |
ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager Benchmarking the energy performance of your buildings is a key first step to understanding and reducing energy consumption and your carbon footprint. |
Link to Tool | |
| 10/02/2018 |
ENERGY STAR® Program Requirements for Computer Servers These Version 3.0 ENERGY STAR Specification requirements will take effect on June 17, 2019 and computer servers should be tested using SERT Version 2.0.1. The Version 3.0 specification will recognize the |
ENERGY STAR Version 3.0 Computer Servers Program Requirements (1).pdf |
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| 08/21/2017 |
Energy-Savings Opportunities in Small Data Centers Slides from Steve Greenberg's August 17th, 2017 presentation during FEMP's Energy Exchange Data Center Panel. |
SmallDataCenterPresentation.Greenberg.EnergyExchange.17Aug2017.pdf |
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| 01/01/2010 |
ERE: A Metric for Measuring the Benefit of Reuse Energy from a Data Center Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is a base data center infrastructure metric, but it does not consider these alternate uses for the waste energy. |
EREmetric_GreenGrid.pdf |
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| 10/04/2018 |
Establishing Metrics, Setting Goals, and Achieving High Data Center Energy Performance This slide deck is from the 2018 Better Buildings 7x24 conference. A panel of Better Buildings partners from Digital Realty Trust, Intel, and the Lawrence Livermore, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories will share their stories and lessons learne |
7x24 DOE Better Buildings 100418.pdf Establishing Metrics, Setting Goals, and Achieving High Data Center Energy Performance |
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| 04/27/2015 |
ESTCP Project: Liquid Immersion Cooling of Electronics Project description that explains the potential of liquid immersion cooling in high performance computing (HPC) and highlights a demonstration of the technology at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC. Author(s): Coles, H.C. |
ImmersionCooling_ESTCP_2015.pdf |
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| 07/10/2010 |
Estimating the Energy Use and Efficiency Potential of U.S. Data Centers Paper that presents a bottom-up model that can be used to estimate total data center electricity demand within a region as well as the potential electricity savings associated with energy efficiency improvements. |
US Data Center Energy Use & Savings Potential |
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| 12/01/2005 |
Estimating Total Power Used By Data Centers in California This study estimates total power use for such facilities, focusing mainly on California. We begin by summarizing what is known about total floor area for these facilities, and then analyzing the power densities associated with this floor area. |
Total CA Power DCs_2005.pdf |
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| 04/23/2015 |
ETCC: Data Center Air Management Research Emerging Technologies Coordinating Council (ETCC) material on data center air management. Several common air management measures were included in the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling to explore the energy-saving potentials. |
Link to Data Center Air Management Research | |
| 08/11/2016 |
Evidence-Based Best Practices Around Data Center Management Best practices document associated with the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI). |
DCOI_BestPractices92016.pdf |
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| 11/20/2015 |
Example Data Center Energy Efficiency Assessment Report Featured 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 |
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| 03/19/2015 |
Executive Order 13693 -- Planning for Federal Sustainability in the Next Decade Executive Order (E.O.) 13693 mandates for data centers: Ensuring the agency chief information officer promotes data center energy optimization, efficiency, and performance -- Section 3(a)(ii)(A); Install and monitor advanced energy meters in all data ce |
Executive Order 13693 Implementing Instructions |
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| 09/01/2012 |
Fact Sheet: Improving Energy Efficiency for Server Rooms and Closets Document outlines the best practices for improving energy efficiency for server rooms and closets. Author(s): Cheung, H.Y., R. Mahdavi, S. Greenberg, R.Brown, B. Tschudi, P. Delforge, and J. Dickerson |
SmallServerRoomFactSheet2012.pdf |
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| 10/30/2015 |
Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) Data Centers Overview of FEMP's data center work including CoE. |
FEMP | |
| 07/08/2014 |
FEMP Dashboard Guide Dashboards help to track energy use, inform decisions for taking corrective action and can be used to track the performance of energy-efficiency improvements once they have been implemented. |
FEMP Dashboard Guide |
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| 02/02/2017 |
FEMP's Covered Product Categories searchable table Federal agencies are required to purchase energy-efficient products. |
FEMP's Covered Product Categories searchable table | |
| 10/05/2016 |
FEMP's Energy Efficiency Resources for Data Centers Presentation slides covering the Federal Energy Management Program's data center-related resources. By Dale Sartor at the Data Center Optimization Initiative's Community of Practice meeting, October 2016. |
EEDCResources093016.pdf |