Title :
Money for Research, Not Energy Bills: Finding Energy and Cost Savings in High-Performance Computer Facility Designs
Author :
Sartor, Dale ; Wilson, Mark
Author_Institution :
Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab., Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
High-performance computing facilities in the US consume enormous amounts of electricity,, cutting into research budgets and challenging efforts to reduce energy consumption and meet environmental goals. Facility designs that target efficiency greatly reduce energy demand. This case study describes strategies and technologies to achieve facility energy reductions through thoughtful design.
Keywords :
computer centres; energy consumption; power aware computing; cost savings; energy consumption; energy savings; high performance computer facility designs; Computational fluid dynamics; Cooling; Energy efficiency; Green design; Power demand; Supercomputers; CRTF; Design and test; computational research and theory facility; energy-efficient computing; scientific computing; standards and best practices;
Journal_Title :
Computing in Science & Engineering
DOI :
10.1109/MCSE.2010.137
