The great amounts of energy consumed by large-scale computing and network systems,
such as data centers and supercomputers, have been a major source of concern in a society …

Airflow is crucial for air-cooled data centers. Its flow path and distribution influences the
thermal environment and energy efficiency of raised-floor data centers. This paper provides …

As computation continues to move into the cloud, the computing platform of interest no
longer resembles a pizza box or a refrigerator, but a warehouse full of computers. These …

Large-scale Internet services require a computing infrastructure that can beappropriately
described as a warehouse-sized computing system. The cost ofbuilding datacenter facilities …

In enterprise data centers power usage is a problem impacting server density and the total
cost of ownership. Storage uses a significant fraction of the power budget and there are no …

Much of the success of the Internet services model can be attributed to the popularity of a
class of workloads that we call Online Data-Intensive (OLDI) services. These workloads …

Power delivery, electricity consumption, and heat management are becoming key
challenges in data center environments. Several past solutions have individually evaluated …

Nowadays, power consumption of data centers has huge impacts on environments.
Researchers are seeking to find effective solutions to make data centers reduce power …

The growing cost of tuning and managing computer systems is leading to out-sourcing of
commercial services to hosting centers. These centers provision thousands of dense servers …

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