An investigation into cooling system control strategies for data center airflow containment architectures

ASME 2011 Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Systems, InterPACK 2011

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 479-488

  Patterson, Michael K ^a   Weidmann, Rainer ^b   Leberecht, Markus ^c   Mair, Manuel ^b   Libby, Richard M ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b T SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^c INTEL DEUTSCHLAND GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW TEMPERATURE; CONTROL DESIGN; CONTROL SCHEMES; COOL AIR; DATA CENTERS; ENERGY USE; MUNICH , GERMANY; OPTIMAL CONTROL SCHEME; POWER USAGE; RECIRCULATIONS; SYSTEM CONTROL; SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION;

EXHIBITIONS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 84860317021     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IPACK2011-52090     Document Type: Conference Paper

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