Paper Info
Title
Analyzing the Efficiency of a Green University Data Center.
Abstract
Data centers are an indispensable part of today's IT infrastructure. To keep pace with modern computing needs, data centers continue to grow in scale and consume increasing amounts of power. While prior work on data centers has led to significant improvements in their energy-efficiency, detailed measurements from these facilities' operations are not widely available, as data center design is often considered part of a company's competitive advantage. However, such detailed measurements are critical to the research community in motivating and evaluating new energy-efficiency optimizations. In this paper, we present a detailed analysis of a state-of-the-art 15MW green multi-tenant data center that incorporates many of the technological advances used in commercial data centers. We analyze the data center's computing load and its impact on power, water, and carbon usage using standard effectiveness metrics, including PUE, WUE, and CUE. Our results reveal the benefits of optimizations, such as free cooling, and provide insights into how the various effectiveness metrics change with the seasons and increasing capacity usage. More broadly, our PUE, WUE, and CUE analysis validate the green design of this LEED Platinum data center.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2851553.2851557
ICPE
Field
DocType
ISBN
Sustainable design,Pace,Efficient energy use,Free cooling,Transport engineering,Competitive advantage,Control engineering,Information technology management,Engineering,Power usage effectiveness,Data center,Management science
Conference
978-1-4503-4080-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.45
8
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Patrick Pegus II120.79
Benoy Varghese220.45
Tian Guo36612.57
David E. Irwin489998.12
Prashant J. Shenoy56386521.30
Anirban Mahanti61875113.51
James Culbert720.45
John Goodhue820.79
Chris Hill9264.08