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| 01/01/2010 |
Energy Efficiency Guidelines & Best Practices in Indian Datacenters |
 Indian Datacenters_2010.pdf |
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| 02/13/2019 |
Energy Efficiency in Data Centres Through Optimized Operations Slides from the Energy Efficiency in Data Centres Through Optimized Operations presentation held in Bangalore on February 13th, 2019. |
Green Mark -SS564 Slides for India _Schinder Electric Mr Eswar.pdf |
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| 06/01/2013 |
Energy Efficiency in Indian Data Centers: Present Trends & Future Opportunities Influx of IT activities, growing internet population, second largest wireless network, and a renewed banking sector have all aided to the cause of data explosion and thus flaring the need for data centers. |
Indian Data Center Trends & Future Opportunities |
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| 04/01/2013 |
Energy Efficiency in Small Server Rooms Final project report of Task 2.13: Energy Efficiency in Small Server Rooms in PIER project 500-10-052. |
SmallServerRooms_Final Report Task 2.13_2013.pdf |
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| 08/01/2014 |
Energy Efficiency in Small Server Rooms: Field Surveys and Findings Study that investigated how IT equipment was deployed, powered, and cooled in small server rooms. Results of this research are intended improve the energy efficiency of existing server spaces, and guide the design and configuration of new server rooms. |
EE in Small Server Rooms ACEEE_2014.pdf |
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| 11/17/2013 |
Energy Efficiency Infrastructure Tool Kit Presentation that identifies opportunities for energy efficiency in high performance computing applications. Author(s): Tschudi, B. |
Tschudi 11-17-2013 |
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| 03/01/2012 |
Energy Efficiency Investigation for the Magellan Super Computer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center The Magellan supercomputer, located at NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center) in Oakland California, consists of an IBM iDataPlex system with 400 compute nodes. This system is cooled with passive rear doors. |
Magellan Energy Efficiency Investigation |
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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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| 03/07/2019 |
Enhancing Energy Efficiency in Indian Data Centers Presentation made by the Cooling Sub-Working Group at the February 13th National Workshop |
2019-02-13-Presentation.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 |