Impact of operating conditions on a chiller-less data center test facility with liquid cooled servers

InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITHERM

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 562-573

  David, Milnes P ^a   Iyengar, Madhusudan K ^a   Parida, Pritish ^b   Simons, Robert E ^a   Schultz, Mark ^b   Gaynes, Michael ^b   Schmidt, Roger ^a   Chainer, Timothy ^b  

^a IBM   (United States)

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

Author keywords

data center cooling; economization; energy efficiency; free air cooling; warm water cooled servers

Indexed keywords

AIR COOLING; AIR FLOW-RATE; COMPUTER ROOMS; COOLING ENERGY; COOLING EQUIPMENT; DATA CENTER COOLING; DATA CENTER ENERGY EFFICIENCIES; DATA CENTERS; ECONOMIZATION; ENERGY USAGE; ENERGY USE; OPERATING CONDITION; PROPYLENE GLYCOLS; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; WARM WATER; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

COOLING SYSTEMS; ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; LIQUIDS; MIXED CONVECTION; TEST FACILITIES;

ELECTRONIC COOLING;

EID: 84866175133     PISSN: 19363958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITHERM.2012.6231480     Document Type: Conference Paper

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