Energy efficiency analyses and comparison of air and water cooled high performance servers

Proceedings of the ASME InterPack Conference 2009, IPACK2009

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 907-914

  Ellsworth Jr , Michael J ^a   Iyengar, Madhusudan K ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILLED WATER; COOLING ENERGY; DATA CENTERS; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY SAVING; FORM FACTORS; HEAT LOADS; HITACHI; SERVER APPLICATIONS; THERMAL MANAGEMENT; WATER COOLING; WATER PUMP; WATER-COOLED SYSTEM;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ECONOMIZERS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SERVERS; THERMAL LOAD; WATER COOLING SYSTEMS;

COOLING;

EID: 77953918683     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/InterPACK2009-89248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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