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Date	Title	Files and Links
12/23/2020	Infosys Bangalore Case Study Infosys intended its Bangalore data center to challenge India’s data center design practices and inspire the enterprise data center industry by demonstrating best-available technology and world-class performance.	Innovation in Energy Efficiency - Infosys Bangalore DC_IGBC&LBNL_2020.pdf
03/01/2009	Indian Data Center Tip Sheet This best practice tip sheet has been adapted from “A Quick Start to Energy Efficiency” developed by LBNL.	Datacenter Tipsheet India_2009.pdf
07/17/2019	India Data Center Initiative \| July 2019 Advisory Group Meeting Resources from the July 2019 Advisory Group Meeting.	Agenda - AGM July 2019.pdf Meeting Minutes - AGM July 2019.pdf ECBC User Guide Presentation - AGM July 2019.pdf Slide Deck - AGM July 2019.pdf
07/17/2018	India Data Center Initiative \| July 2018 Resources and meeting materials from the July 2018 Advisory Group Meeting.	AGM Meeting - Agenda - July 2018.pdf AGM Meeting - Kickoff - July 2018.pdf AGM Meeting - Recommendations for 2017 ECBC Requirements- July 2018.pdf
02/01/2019	India Data Center Initiative \| February 2019 Advisory Group Meeting Resources and meeting materials from the February 2019 Advisory Group Meeting.	Advisory Group Meeting Feb 2019_Agenda.pdf AGM Meeting - Project Review Meeting - February 2019.pdf AGM Meeting - Chiller Performance Subgroup - February 2019.pdf AGM Meeting - Cooling Performance Subgroup - February 2019.pdf AGM Meeting - Electrical Performance Subgroup - February 2019.pdf
01/01/2012	Improving Energy Efficiency for Server Rooms and Closets Brief Summary Fact sheet: Top 14 Measures to Save Energy in Your Server Room or Closet. Author(s): Brown, R., B. Tschudi, and P. Delforge	fact-sheet-ee-server-rooms-3.pdf
06/26/2017	Improving Energy Efficiency for Server Rooms & Closets A guide outlining effective methods to increase energy efficiency- ranging from low to high cost.	Improving Energy Efficiency for Server Rooms and Closets.pdf
03/01/2012	Improving Data Center Efficiency with Rack or Row Cooling Devices In new data center designs, capacity provisioning for ever-higher power densities puts into question whether conventional room-conditioning systems can manage future information technology (IT) loads.	dc_chilloff2.pdf
04/01/2019	Implementing Instructions for Executive Order 13834 Efficient Federal Operations This document provides Federal executive departments and agencies (agencies) with instructions regarding implementation of Executive Order (E.O.) 1383	eo13834_instructions.pdf
08/19/2019	Implementing ECBC 2017 in Data Centers Advisory Group Meeting Slide deck on the ECBC User Guide effort from July 2019 Advisory Group Meeting.	ECBC Guide_Advisory Group minutes 080519.pdf
02/01/2009	Impact of Air Filtration on the Energy and Indoor Air Quality of Economizer-based Data Centers in the PG&E Territory The goal of the project is to encourage the use of air economizers in data centers by developing a framework for making energy and lifecycle cost comparisons for various filtration options and to better understand the impact of climate on data centers.	PG&E Impact of Air Filtration_2009.pdf
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
08/12/2019	IGBC and LBNL Project Review Meeting Agenda Agenda from the February 2018 Project Review Meeting	Advisory Group Meeting Feb 2018_Agenda.pdf
02/13/2019	IGBC and LBNL Project Review Summary of project review held in Bangalore on February 13th, 2019.	2_IGBC DC Rating System_Gen Presentation 13 Feb 19_Mr Shivraj DHaka.pdf
07/16/2019	Hyderabad Green Data Center Workshop Agenda & Flier Promotional materials from the July 2019 Hyderabad Green Data Center Workshop.	Green Buildings and Green Data Centers Flyer_FINAL.pdf ANSI Workshop - Green Buildings 15 July Hyderabad_v1.04_bp.pdf
02/13/2019	Hybrid Cooling in Data Centres Slide deck from presentation made at the Feb 13, 2019 Half Day Workshop as part of the Enhanced Energy Efficiency in Indian Data Centers Initiative.	CASE STUDY Hybrid Cooling IIT Delhi 13.2.2019.pdf
03/27/2017	Humidity Control in Data Centers This report reviews the evolution of humidity control in data centers and makes recommendations on how to meet the current humidity control requirements in an energy-efficient manner. Guidance on the use of evaporative cooling is also provided.	Humidity Control in Data Centers.03242017_0.pdf
11/20/2019	HPC Energy Efficiency in the Exascale Era Slide deck from the a Keynote delivered by Jeff Broughton (LBNL) at the energy efficiency workshop at the Super Compute 2019 conference.	SC 2019 EE HPC Keynote V2.pdf
08/20/2018	How to Save Money in Your Small Data Center At Energy Exchange 2018, Dale Sartor & Steve Greenberg of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) held a workshop on money-saving actions that you can take in your small data center.	Small Data Center Energy Exchange Workshop.pdf
03/15/2017	How to be Cloud Smart: IAAS Considerations for the Data Center Community This whitepaper from the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) PMO, shares some of those lessons learned to provide a holistic view of cloud adoption and enable the federal data center community to be “cloud smart.”	IAAS Considerations for the Data Center Community.pdf
01/01/2006	High Performance Data Centers: A Design Guidelines Sourcebook Based upon benchmark measurements of operating data centers and input from practicing designers and operators, the Design Guidelines are intended to provide a set of efficient baseline design approaches for data center systems.	DCdesignPGE2006.pdf
06/05/2009	High Performance Computing with High Efficiency Presentation on the computational facility designed for the University of California in Berkeley, CA that was designed to accommodate either air or liquid cooling. Author(s): Tschudi, B., S. Greenberg and A. Khann	CRT transactionpaperJune2009-6-5-09.pdf
01/01/2009	High Performance Computing with High Efficiency A new computational facility under design for the University of California in Berkeley, CA is such a center that is being designed to accommodate either air or liquid cooling. This paper describes the unique design features of this center whose goals in	013.pdf
09/01/2010	High Performance Computing Data Center Metering Protocol This report is part of the DOE effort to develop methods for measurement in High Performance Computing (HPC) data center facilities and document system strategies that have been used in DOE data centers to increase data center energy efficiency.	hpc_metering_protocol.pdf
12/01/2005	High Performance Buildings: Data Centers Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) The goals for this project included a complete analysis of distribution of UPS design efficiencies, which included the development of a UPS test protocol, and the broad circulation of efficiency findings to the industry through the CEC PIER program, Law	UPS_Report_2005.pdf