The powernap server architecture

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Meisner, David ^a   Gold, Brian T ^b   Wenisch, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Power management; Servers

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE STATE; BLADE SERVERS; COMMERCIAL DEPLOYMENT; COMPLEX LOADS; DATA CENTERS; ENTIRE SYSTEM; FINE-GRAINED POWER; HIGH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; INDIVIDUAL SYSTEMS; LOAD SHARING; OPTIMIZATION GOALS; PEAK POWER; POWER CONSUMPTION; POWER DEMANDS; POWER MANAGEMENTS; POWER SUPPLY; POWER WASTE; SERVER ARCHITECTURE; TRANSITION TIME; ZERO-POWER;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SERVERS;

ENERGY CONVERSION;

EID: 79952352441     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: 15577333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1925109.1925112     Document Type: Article

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