The GreenIT DC-benchmarking tool: From scientific theory to real life

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7396 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 47-53

  Israel, Ywes ^a,b   Leitert, Thomas ^a,b  

^a TimeKontor AG   (Germany)

^b GreenIT BB ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Data Center Benchmarking; Energy Consumption; Energy Efficiency Monitoring; Key Performance Indicator; Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING TOOLS; DATA CENTERS; KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; POWER USAGE; SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS; SCIENTIFIC THEORIES; SPECIFIC ENERGY; TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BERLINS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84867870007     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33645-4_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. The German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology: Action plan "Germany: Green IT Pioneer", p. 2 (2008), http://www.bmwi.de/English/ Redaktion/Pdf/action-plan-green-it-pioneer,property=pdf,bereich=bmwi,sprache=en, rwb=true.pdf
2. Borderstep Insitute: Energyefficient Data Centers - Best-Practice- Examples from Europe, USA and Asia, Berlin, p. 8 (2008), http://www.borderstep. de/pdf/P-Fichter-Clausen-Eimertenbrink-Energy-Efficient-Data-Centres-Best- Practice-Examples-from-Europa-USA-and-Asia-2008.pdf
3. Prof. Dr. rer. Nat. Frank Behrendt, et al.: Konzeptstudie zur Energie- und Ressourceneffizienz im Betrieb von Rechenzentren; TU Berlin, Innovation Centre Energy (IZE) (December 2008) partly financed by TSB Technologiestiftung Berlin, http://www.energie.tu-berlin.de/uploads/media/IZE-Konzeptstudie- Energieeffizienz-in-Rechenzentren.pdf; Main results: The increase in the average server room temperature in conjunction with the increase in the chiller temperature and indirect free cooling helps a lot. With little investment in the building infrastructure greatest savings can be realized. But also for the implementation of pioneering concepts such as combined heat-power-refrigeration (trigeneration) of data centers by district heating are often very good conditions, p. 137
4. Study by Experton Group (2009), http://images.computerwoche.de/images/ computerwoche/bdb/493837/C9FE99D05B6E2AB7257C811 737B07F55-800x600.jpg (stated June 26, 2009)