Experimental investigation of water cooled server microprocessors and memory devices in an energy efficient chiller-less data center

Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 224-231

  Parida, Pritish R ^a   David, Milnes ^b   Iyengar, Madhusudan ^b   Schultz, Mark ^a   Gaynes, Michael ^a   Kamath, Vinod ^b   Kochuparambil, Bejoy ^b   Chainer, Timothy ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Chiller less data centers; Data center; energy efficient; liquid cooled servers

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT ENVIRONMENT; COOLING ENERGY; DATA CENTER COOLING; DATA CENTERS; DATA-CENTER; ENERGY EFFICIENT; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; SERVER MICROPROCESSOR; THERMAL VALUE; WARM LIQUID; WATER USAGE;

COOLING SYSTEMS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; THERMAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84861125184     PISSN: 10652221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/STHERM.2012.6188852     Document Type: Conference Paper

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