Thermal zones for more efficient data center energy management

2010 12th IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hamann, Hendrik F ^a   López, Vanessa ^a   Stepanchuk, Andrew ^a  

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

Author keywords

CFD modeling; Data center; Energy efficiency; Energy management; Potential flow; Thermal management

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW; AIR FLOW VELOCITY; AIRFLOW MEASUREMENTS; AIRFLOW PATTERNS; CFD MODELING; COEFFICIENT OF PERFORMANCE; COOLING POWER; DATA CENTER; DATA CENTERS; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; GRANULAR LEVELS; HEAT DENSITY; HEAT DISSIPATION; HEAT LOADS; IT EQUIPMENT; LOCAL COOLING; POWER CONSUMPTION; REAL TIME MEASUREMENTS; REMOVAL CAPACITY; SOFTWARE TOOL; THERMAL MANAGEMENT; THERMAL ZONES; TIME TEMPERATURE; TRACING ALGORITHM;

AIR; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; FLOW PATTERNS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; POTENTIAL FLOW; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TIME MEASUREMENT;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 77955184386     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITHERM.2010.5501332     Document Type: Conference Paper

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