Server liquid cooling with chiller-less data center design to enable significant energy savings

Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 212-223

  Iyengar, Madhusudan ^a   David, Milnes ^a   Parida, Pritish ^b   Kamath, Vinod ^a   Kochuparambil, Bejoy ^a   Graybill, David ^a   Schultz, Mark ^b   Gaynes, Michael ^b   Simons, Robert ^a   Schmidt, Roger ^a   Chainer, Timothy ^b  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b Research Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Data center; energy efficiency; liquid cooling

Indexed keywords

AIR-COOLED CHILLERS; AMBIENT AIR; AMBIENT AIR TEMPERATURE; CONCEPT DESIGNS; COOLING DESIGNS; COOLING ENERGY; COST OPTIMIZED; DATA CENTERS; DATA COLLECTION; DATA COLLECTION SOFTWARE; DEVICE TEMPERATURE; DRY AIR; ENERGY EFFICIENT; ENERGY USAGE; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FAN POWER; IT POWER; LEAKAGE POWER; LIQUID COOLANT; LIQUID COOLING; LIQUID DISTRIBUTION; MARKET DESIGN; NEW YORK; REAL TIME; THERMAL INTERFACE MATERIALS; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; WARM LIQUID; WATER USE;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COOLING; COOLING SYSTEMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DESIGN; ECONOMIZERS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HARDWARE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); THERMAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

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EID: 84861109324     PISSN: 10652221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/STHERM.2012.6188851     Document Type: Conference Paper

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