Best practices for data center thermal and energy management - Review of literature

ASHRAE Transactions

Volumn 113 PART 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 206-218

  Schmidt, Roger R ^a,b   Iyengar, Madhusudan ^a,b  

^a ASHRAE ^*

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; SERVERS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; THERMAL LOAD;

COOLING RACKS; DATA CENTERS;

INFORMATION SERVICES;

EID: 34547965527     PISSN: 00012505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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