Totally green: Evaluating and designing servers for lifecycle environmental impact

International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems - ASPLOS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 25-36

  Chang, Jichuan ^a   Meza, Justin ^a   Ranganathan, Parthasarathy ^a   Shah, Amip ^a   Shih, Rocky ^a   Bash, Cullen ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

datacenter design; dematerialization; disaggregation; environmental sustainability; exergy; green computing; lifecycle impact; server architecture

Indexed keywords

DEMATERIALIZATION; DISAGGREGATION; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; GREEN COMPUTING; SERVER ARCHITECTURE;

ARCHITECTURE; DESIGN; EXERGY; LIFE CYCLE; MANUFACTURE; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 84858779085     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2150976.2150980     Document Type: Conference Paper

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