Minimizing the thermal impact of computing equipment upgrades in data centers

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 50, Issue , 2012, Pages 81-92

  Siriwardana, Jayantha ^a   Halgamuge, Saman K ^a   Scherer, Thomas ^b   Schott, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Data center cooling; Data center energy efficiency; Hot air recirculation; Load spreading; Particle swarm optimization (PSO); Thermal aware equipment upgrading

Indexed keywords

DATA CENTER COOLING; DATA CENTER ENERGY EFFICIENCIES; HOT AIR RECIRCULATION; LOAD SPREADING; THERMAL AWARE EQUIPMENT UPGRADING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; DISTRICT HEATING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); SANDWICH STRUCTURES; THERMAL LOAD;

EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84861800877     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2012.03.026     Document Type: Article

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