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Date	Title	Files and Links
10/01/2012	The Carbon Emissions of Server Computing for Small- to Medium-Sized Organizations NRDC and WSP Environment & Energy, LLC (WSP) launched this study to uncover the key factors that determine how on-premise and cloud computing compare from a carbon emissions and an energy efficiency perspective.	NRDC-WSP_Cloud_Computing.pdf
04/12/2015	Systematic Approach for Universal Commissioning Plan for Liquid-cooled Systems This study is a collaborative effort providing the methodology for commissioning liquid-cooled High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions.	Systematic approach for universal commissioning plan for liquid cooled systems.pdf
	System-Level Tools With Estimated Carbon Reductions This webinar describes the system-level tools in the DOE/LBNL Data Center Energy Efficiency Toolkit, now updated to provide estimates of carbon reductions from the recommended efficiency measures.	Training- System Tools with Carbon Reduction 3-23-2022_1.pdf
07/01/2009	Sybase Case Study: Database Technology Company Saves $262,000 Annually In 2005, Sybase conducted an energy audit that revealed that their data center N+1 cooling capacity was at risk due to the center’s rapid growth.	Sybase_Case_Study.pdf
04/15/2015	SVLG Panel on Data Center Cooling Presentation given at the data center workshop hosted by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and PG&E at NetApp in Sunnyvale, CA. Author(s):Hydeman, M.	SVLG Panel Data Center Cooling_Hydeman 2015.pdf
06/15/2016	Supercomputing Centers and Electricity Service Providers: A Geographically Distributed Perspective on Demand Management in Europe and the United States Supercomputing Centers (SCs) have high and variable power demands, which increase the challenges of the Electricity Service Providers (ESPs) with regards to efficient electricity distribution and reliable grid operation.	2016_Book_HighPerformanceComputing.pdf
01/01/2008	SuperComputers: Super Polluters? As supercomputing moves into the petaflop era (1015 flops, or FLoating point Operations Per Second), improved energy efficiency and renewable energy sources provide the key to increasing computing power without exacting and undue cost on the environment	Super Computing_Data Center Journal.pdf
12/20/2018	Strategies for Thermal Management in Existing Data Centers Presentation from the one day national workshop on “Enhanced Energy Efficiency in Indian Data Centers,” held in July 2018.	Existing Data Centre -Thermal Management-24072018.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
02/01/2012	Small Server Rooms, Big Energy Savings The National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) survey was designed to provide insight into three areas: How much are small and medium-sized companies using energy-saving virtualization and cloud computing?	NRDC_ServerRooms2012.pdf
06/29/2017	Small Embedded Data Center Program Pilot A 2016 U.S.	408322.pdf
09/28/2017	Small Data Centers, Large Energy Savings: an Introduction for Owners and Operators Webinar features Steve Greenberg, a lead author of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s "Small Data Center Energy Savings Guide," who provides actionable guidance to save energy in small data centers (less than 5,000 squa	Small Data Center Presentation.928.17.pdf
03/29/2017	Small Data Centers, Large Energy Savings(Presentation) Slides from Steve Greenberg's webinar on Saving Energy in Your Small Data Centers.	Small Data Centers, Large Energy Savings Presentation03292017.pdf
03/27/2017	Small Data Centers, Big Energy Savings The purpose of this brief guide is to present opportunities for small data center owners and operators that generally make sense and do not need expensive assessment and analysis to justify.	Small Data Centers, Big Energy Savings.pdf
08/21/2018	Small Data Center Workshop Presentation Slides Presentation slides from Dale Sartor's Small Data Center Workshop at Energy Exchange on August 20th, 2018.	Small_Data_Center_Workshop.pdf
10/01/2020	Small Data Center Webpage Resource constrained data centers face unique challenges in their energy efficiency journey.
07/13/2015	Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG) The Silicon Valley Leadership Group is a public policy business trade organization.
06/01/2017	Shining a Light on Small Data Centers in the U.S. This report analyzes the distribution of small data centers across the United States by geographic distribution and by building activity.
04/04/2014	Seventh Floor Data Centers RAY Building, Saint Louis, Missouri: Energy Usage Efficiency Assessment Report This energy assessment, sponsored by the General Services Administration (GSA) and Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP), focuses on two data centers on the seventh floor of the Robert A. Young (RAY) Building.	RAY Energy assessment report -Mahdavi-May 2014.pdf
06/21/2004	Server Power Supply Loading Guideline Presentation on the Server Power Supply Loading Guideline. The purposes of this Guideline is to ensure that the loading for each DC bus for a multi output server power supply is consistent when measuring power supply efficiency and to allow consistency	ServerPowerSupply_2004.pdf
06/28/2010	Self-benchmarking Guide for Data Center Infrastructure: Metrics, Benchmarks, Actions Guide that builds on prior data center benchmarking studies supported by the California energy Commission. Much of the benchmarking data are drawn from the LBNL data center benchmarking database that was developed from these studies.	datacenter-benchmarking-guide.pdf
03/31/2015	Self-benchmarking Guide (Datacenters) This guide describes energy efficiency metrics and benchmarks that can be used to track the performance of and identify potential opportunities to reduce energy use of data center HVAC and electrical systems. This guide is primarily intended for personn
05/01/2006	Self Benchmarking Guide for Data Center Energy Performance Energy benchmarking offers a very effective way to evaluate the performance of a data center facility and compare it to similar facilities.	self_benchmarking_guide-2.pdf
09/01/2013	Saving Energy in Data Centers: Low Cost Energy Efficiency Measures Case Studies Presentation with the following objectives:	LBNL Data Center low cost EEMs Presentation I2SL 2013 -Mahdavi.pdf
08/21/2013	Saving Energy in Data Centers: Applying Best Practices - Hyderabad, India 2013 Presentation from the CII Data Center Workshop in Hyderabad, India. Author(s): Sartor, D.	dc-ee-dcw-08-21-2013.pdf