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According to current surveys, 58% of datacenter operators do not enable or exploit the Energy Savings which can be readily derived from Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling features implemented in all modern servers powered by AMD and Intel processors.

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Increment this by a factor of 1.1 for consequent thermal output, and 0.3 for conditioned power losses, and the total cost in operating expense, carbon emissions, and missed opportunity is purely staggering.

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If you would like to investigate the subject of energy efficiency in the datacenter further, we've compiled a number of articles, white papers, and related documents for your convenience. The literature in this domain is large and growing; we list here materials that we found informative as an introduction to the subject.

This page is updated frequently so check back with us often. These are off-site links to the original document locations and will open in a new window.

Contact us to discuss your requirements for analysis, conservation benchmarking and projection, and implementation of energy and thermal savings in your datacenter.

Federal Government

H.R. 5646-2 "To study and promote the use of energy efficient computer servers in the United States" (legislation, pdf 32KB)

EPA Study on Server and Datacenter Energy Efficiency (EPA website)

ENERGY STAR (computers at EnergyStar website)

EnergyStar Program Requirements for Computers Version 4.0 (pdf 750KB)

Industry Analysts

Power Consumption and Cooling in the Datacenter: A Survey (Ziff Davis survey, pdf 300 KB)

Data Center Power and Heat Management: Ready or Not? (Ziff Davis survey, pdf 341KB)

Server Innovations: Examining DC Power as an alternative for Increasing Data Center Efficiency and Reliability (IDC white paper, pdf 123 KB)

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The Green Grid

The Green Grid Opportunity (position paper, pdf 230 KB)

Green Grid Metrics: Describing Datacenter Power Efficiency (pdf 250 KB)

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

Power and Cooling in the Datacenter (white paper, pdf 212 KB)

AMD PowerNow! Technology (white paper, pdf 392KB)

Intel

Intel® Multi-Core Processors - Making the Move to Quad-Core and Beyond (white paper, pdf 135 KB)

Intel^® Xeon^® Processor - Enhanced Intel Speedstep Frequently Asked Questions

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Estimating Total Power Consumption by Servers in the U.S. and the World (report, pdf 1.3 MB)

Research Literature

Performance-constrained Distributed DVS Scheduling
for Scientific Applications on Power-aware Clusters (research paper, pdf 250 KB)

A rich body of research literature may be found at the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. (Subscription Required)