A real-time data center airflow and energy assessment tool

Proceedings of the ASME InterPack Conference 2009, IPACK2009

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 793-798

  Zhang, Xuanhang ^a   VanGilder, James W ^a   Healey, Christopher M ^b  

^a American Power Conversion   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR DISTRIBUTION; COOLING UNIT; CRITICAL THRESHOLD VALUE; DATA CENTERS; ENERGY ASSESSMENT; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; FACILITY LAYOUT; FAN SPEED; FIXED NUMBERS; INLET TEMPERATURE; MIXED MODELS; PERFORMANCE METRICES; REAL-TIME DATA; SOFTWARE TOOL; WATER TEMPERATURES;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT; PLANT LAYOUT;

COOLING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77953930885     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/InterPACK2009-89175     Document Type: Conference Paper

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