Quantifying the sustainability impact of data center availability

Performance Evaluation Review

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 64-68

  Marwah, Manish ^a   Maciel, Paulo ^b   Shah, Amip ^a   Sharma, Ratnesh ^a   Christian, Tom ^a   Almeida, Virgilio ^d   Araújo, Carlos ^b   Souza, Erica ^b   Callou, Gustavo ^b   Silva, Bruno ^b   Galdino, Sérgio ^b   Pires, Jose ^c  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c Hewlett Packard   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Availability; Data center; Life cycle assessment; Power infrastructure; Stochastic Petri net; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; AVAILABILITY; ECODESIGN; LIFE CYCLE; PETRI NETS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DATA CENTERS; DIFFERENT ARCHITECTURES; INTERNET SERVICES; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); POWER INFRASTRUCTURES; STOCHASTIC PETRI NET; STOCHASTIC PETRI NETS; SUSTAINABILITY IMPACTS;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 79960181895     PISSN: 01635999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1773394.1773405     Document Type: Conference Paper

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