Title :
SimWare: A Holistic Warehouse-Scale Computer Simulator
Author :
Yeo, Sungkap ; Lee, Hsien-Hsin S.
Author_Institution :
Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
To optimize datacenter energy efficiency, SimWare analyzes the power consumption of servers, cooling units, and fans as well as the effects of heat recirculation and air supply timing. Experiments using SimWare show a high loss of cooling efficiency due to the nonuniform inlet air temperature distribution across servers.
Keywords :
computer centres; cooling; digital simulation; energy conservation; file servers; optimisation; power consumption; SimWare; air supply timing; cooling units; datacenter energy efficiency optimization; fans; heat recirculation; holistic warehouse-scale computer simulator; nonuniform inlet air temperature distribution; power consumption; servers; Computational modeling; Computers; Energy efficiency; Simulation; Temperature distribution; datacenters; energy efficiency; green computing; simulations;
DOI :
10.1109/MC.2012.251
