GDCSim: A simulator for green data center design and analysis

ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gupta, Sandeep K S ^a   Banerjee, Ayan ^a   Abbasi, Zahra ^a   Varsamopoulos, Georgios ^a   Jonas, Michael ^a   Ferguson, Joshua ^a   Gilbert, Rose Robin ^b   Mukherjee, Tridib ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IO Data Centers   (United States)

^c Xerox Research Center   (India)

Author keywords

Cyber physical system; Energy efficiency; Green data center; Modeling; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893954545     PISSN: 10493301     EISSN: 15581195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2553083     Document Type: Conference Paper

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