The depletion of the world's limited reservoirs of fossil fuels, the worldwide impact of global
warming and the high cost of energy are among the primary issues driving a renewed …

With the increase in electronic traffic, heat generated by electronic equipment, and the
concomitant costs of powering cooling systems in electronic data centers are increasing …

Internet-based applications and their resulting multitier distributed architectures have
changed the focus of design for large-scale Internet computing. Internet server applications …

This paper deals with the distribution of airflow and the resulting cooling in a data center.
First, the cooling challenge is described and the concept of a raised-floor data center is …

This paper provides a broad review of the cooling technologies for computer products from
desktop computers to large servers. For many years cooling technology has played a key …

The need for more performance from computer equipment in data centers has driven the
power consumed to levels that are straining thermal management in the centers. When the …

(57) ABSTRACT A system and method for evaluating cooling performance of equipment in a
data center, the equipment including a plural ity of equipment racks and at least one cooling …

The data center of tomorrow is characterized as one containing a dense aggregation of
commodity computing, networking and storage hardware mounted in industry standard …

Data center costs for computer power and cooling are staggering. Because certain physical
locations inside the data center are more efficient to cool than others, this suggests that …

In data centers, a large number of IT sever racks with different heat dissipation rates are
arranged in multiple rows, leading to much higher per-unit heat release and therefore more …