HP research papers on energy efficiency

Bash, C.E., Forman, G., “Cool Job Allocation:  Measuring the Power Savings of Placing Jobs at Cooling-Efficient Locations in the Data Center”, USENIX, San Jose, CA, June 2007

Bash, C.E., Forman, G., "Data Center Workload Placement for Energy Efficiency", Proceedings of IPACK, Vancouver, BC, July 2007

Beitelmal, A.H., Patel, C.D., “Thermo-fluids provisioning of a high density data center,” J. of Distributed and parallel databases-special issue on high density data centers, Vol. 21 No. 2-3, 2007

Belady, C., “In the Data Center, Power and Cooling Costs More than the IT Equipment it Supports", Electronics Cooling Magazine, February 2007

Belady, C., W. Vinson, "Power-Hungry Data Centers Must Develop a Plan for Curbing Costs, Increasing Efficiency" , Enterprise Networks & Servers, February 2007

Malone, C. G., Belady, C. L., "Metrics and an Infrastructure Model to Evaluate Data Center Efficiency," Proceedings of IPACK, Vancouver, BC, July 2007

Shah, A. J., Carey, V. P., Bash, C. E., Patel, C. D. "Exergy Analysis of Data Center Thermal Management Systems." ASME Journal of Heat Transfer (accepted), 2007

Bash, C.E., Patel, C.D., Sharma, R.K., “Dynamic Thermal Management of Air Cooled Data Centers”,Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems", Proceedings of 2006 ITHERM, San Diego, CA, 2006

Belady, C., "How to Minimize Data Center Utility Bills", Line56, September 5, 2006

Belady, C., M. Herrlin, "Gravity-Assisted Air Mixing in Data Centers and How It Affects the Rack Cooling Effectiveness," Proceedings of 2006 ITHERM, San Diego, CA, May 2006

Belady, C., C. Malone, "Data Center Power Projections to 2014," Proceedings of 2006 ITHERM, San Diego, CA, May 2006

Boucher, T. D., Auslander, D. M., Bash, C. E., Federspiel, C. C., Patel, C. D., 2004, “Viability of Dynamic Cooling Control in a Data Center Environment”, Journal of Electronic Packaging, June 2006

Herrlin, M., C. Belady, "Understanding Gravity's Role in the Data Center: How it Could Help Improve the Cooling Design", ZeroDowntime, p. 16 -19, Summer 2006

Koomey, J., C. Belady, H. Wong, R. Snevely, B. Nordman, E. Hunter, K. Lange, R. Tipley, G. Darnell, M.Accapadi, P. Rumsey, B. Kelley, W. Tschudi, D. Moss, R. Greco, K. Brill, "Server Energy Measurement Protocol" Environmental Protection Agency (November 2006)

Malone, C., C. Belady, "Metrics to characterize Data Center & IT Equipment Energy Use," To be published in the Proceedings of 2006 Digital Power Forum, Richardson, TX, September 2006

Patel, C. D., Sharma, R.K., Bash, C.E., Beitelmal, M., "Energy Flow in the Information Technology Stack:  Introducing the Coefficient of Performance of the Ensemble", ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress, IMECE 2006-14830, Chicago, IL, November 2006

Belady, C., D. Beaty, "Data Centers: Roadmap for Datacom Cooling," ASHRAE Journal, Volume 47, Number 12, p. 52-55, December 2005

Patel, C. D, Shah, A., “Cost Model for Planning, Development and Operation of a Data Center”, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Technical Report, HPL-2005-107(R.1), June 9, 2005

Patel, C.D. “Smart Chip, System, Data Center – Dynamic Provisioning of Power and Cooling from Chip Core to the Cooling Tower,” Temperature Aware Computing Workshop (TACS), Int’l Symposium on Comp. Architecture ISCA-2005, Madison, WI, 2005

Patel, C.D., Bash, C.E., Sharma, R.K., Beitelmal, A., Malone, C. G., “Smart Chip, System and Data Center Enabled by Advanced Flexible Cooling Resources”, Proceedings of 21st IEEE Semi-Therm Symposium, San Jose, CA, March 2005

Shah, A., Carey, V., Bash, C., and Patel, C. “Exergy-Based Optimization Strategies for Multi-Component Data Center Thermal Management: Part I, Analysis”, Paper IPACK2005-73137, Proceedings of the ASME Int’l Electronic Packaging Technical Conference and Exhibition (InterPACK), San Francisco, CA, 2005

Shah, A., Carey, V., Bash, C. and Patel, C. “Exergy-Based Optimization Strategies for Multi-Component Data Center Thermal Management: Part II, Application and Validation”, Paper IPACK2005-73137, Proceedings of the ASME International Electronic Packaging Technical Conference and Exhibition (InterPACK), San Francisco, CA, 2005

Sharma, R.K., Bash, C. E., Patel, C. D., Friedrich, R.J., Chase, J.S. “Balance of Power: Dynamic Thermal Management of Internet Data Centers”, IEEE Internet Computing, January 2005

Boucher, T. D., Auslander, D. M., Bash, C. E., Federspiel, C. C., Patel, C. D., 2004, “Viability of Dynamic Cooling Control in a Data Center Environment”, ASME/IEEE Itherm 2004, Las Vegas, NV, June 2004

Moore, J., Chase, J., Ranganathan, P., Sharma, R. “Making Scheduling ‘Cool’: Temperature-Aware Workload Placement in Data Centers”, USENIX 2004

Panel on "Thermal Challenges in the Next of Generation Computer, Telecommunication, and Military Electronic Equipment", Proceedings of the 2004 ITHERM, pp. 709-722, IEEE, Las Vegas, NV, June 2004

Schmidt, R., C. Belady, A. Classen, T. Davidson, M. Herrlin, S. Novotny, R. Perry, “Evolution of Data Center Environmental Guidelines.”, (best paper award), 2004 Winter Annual Meeting, pp. 559-566, ASHRAE, Anaheim, CA, January 2004

Shah, A., Bash, C.E., Carey, V.P., Patel, C.D., “An Exergy-Based Control Strategy for Computer Room Air-Conditioning Units in Data Centers”, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress, IMECE 2004-61384, Anaheim, CA, November 2004

Sharma, R.K., Bash, C.E. and Patel, C.D., “Experimental investigation of design and performance of data centers”, ASME/IEEE ITherm 2004, Las Vegas, NV, June 2004

Bash, C. E., Patel, C. D., Sharma, R. K., 2003, “Efficient Thermal Management of Data Centers – Immediate and Long-Term Research Needs”, HVAC&R Research, Vol.9, No.2, April 2003

Guggari, S., D. Agonafer, C. Belady, L. Stahl, “A Hybrid Methodology for the Optimization of Data Center Room Layout”, Proceedings of InterPACK 2003 Conference, ASME, Maui, Hawaii, July 2003

Patel, C.D., “A vision of energy aware computing – from chips to data centers”, The International Symposium on Micro-Mechanical Engineering, ISMME2003-K15, December 2003

Patel, C.D., Sharma, R.K., Bash, C.E., Graupner, S., “Energy Aware Grid: Global Workload Placement Based on Energy Efficiency”, Proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R&D Expo, Washington D.C., Nov 15-20, 2003

Patel, C. D., Bash, C. E., Sharma, R. K., Beitelmal, A and Friedrich, R. J., “Smart Cooling of Data Centers”, Proceedings of IPACK’03, The Pacific Rim/ASME International Electronic Packaging Technical Conference and Exhibition, Kauai, Hawaii, USA, IPACK-35059, July 2003

Shah, A., Bash, C.E., Carey, V.P., Patel, C.D. “Exergy Analysis of Data Center Thermal Management Systems”, ASME Intl. Mech. Eng. Cong. RD&D Expo (IMECE), IMECE2003-42527, Washington, D.C., November 2003

Sharma, R. K., Bash, C. E., Patel, C. D., Friedrich, R. J., Chase, J. S., 2003, “Balance of Power: Dynamic Thermal Management for Internet Data Centers”, HPL-2003-5, HP Labs, 2003

Friedrich, R., Patel, C. D., “Towards Planetary Scale Computing – Technical Challenges for Next Generation Internet Computing”, THERMES 2002, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2002

Patel, C.D., Bash, C.E., Sharma, R.K. and Beitelmal, A., “Thermal Considerations in Cooling Large Scale High Compute Density Data Centers”, 8th Intersociety Conf. Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), San Diego, CA, May 2002

Sharma, R.K. and Bash, C.E., “Dimensionless parameters for energy-efficient data center design”, IMAPS ATW Advances in Thermal Solution Design for Computing Workshop, Palo Alto, CA, October 2002

Belady, C., “Cooling and Power Considerations for Semiconductors Into the Next Century”, [invited] Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, p. 100-105, IEEE, Huntington Beach, CA, August 2001

Patel, C., C. Bash, C. Belady, L. Stahl, D. Sullivan, "Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of High Density Data Centers to Assure Systems Inlet Air Specifications," Proceedings of InterPACK 2001 Conference, ASME, Kauai, Hawaii, July 2001)

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