Methods and techniques for measuring and improving data center best practices

2008 11th IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, I-THERM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1146-1152

  Hamann, Hendrik F ^a   Schappert, Michael ^a   Iyengar, Madhusudan ^b   Van Kessel, Theodore ^a   Claassen, Alan ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Data center cooling; Energy efficiency

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; FORMING; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; THERMOMECHANICAL TREATMENT;

BEST PRACTICES; DATA CENTER COOLING;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 50949115462     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITHERM.2008.4544390     Document Type: Conference Paper

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