Lifetime exergy consumption of enterprise servers

International Journal of Exergy

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 439-453

  Hannemann, Christopher R ^a   Carey, Van P ^a   Shah, Amip J ^b   Patel, Chandrakant D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Data centre; Energy efficiency; Environmental sustainability; Exergy; Green computing; Lifecycle assessment; Servers

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXERGY; LIFE CYCLE; MATERIALS HANDLING; RAW MATERIALS; SERVERS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DATA CENTRES; ENTERPRISE COMPUTING; ENTERPRISE SERVERS; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; EXERGY CONSUMPTION; LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENTS; LIFECYCLE IMPACTS; RAW MATERIAL EXTRACTION;

GREEN COMPUTING;

EID: 77953161401     PISSN: 17428297     EISSN: 17428300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEX.2010.033413     Document Type: Article

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