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Sustainable data centers: enabled by supply and demand side management

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Prith Banerjee,

Chandrakant D. Patel,

Parthasarathy RanganathanAuthors Info & Claims

DAC '09: Proceedings of the 46th Annual Design Automation Conference

Pages 884 - 887

https://doi.org/10.1145/1629911.1630138

Published: 26 July 2009 Publication History

Abstract

The environmental impact of data centers is significant and is growing rapidly. Servers alone in the US consumed 1.2% of the nation's energy in 2005, according to the EPA. In the following year, the EPA found that the cost of energy rose by 10%. However, there are many opportunities for greater efficiency through integrated design and management of data center components. To that end, we propose a sustainable data center that replaces conventional resource delivery models with a framework centered around the supply and demand side management of all data center resources including IT, power and cooling. We have identified five elements for achieving this vision: data center scale lifecycle design, flexible and configurable building blocks, pervasive cross-layer sensing, knowledge discovery and visualization, and autonomous control. We describe these principles and provide selected results that quantify the potential for savings.

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