Towards an Open Model for Data Center Research: From CPU to Cooling TowerShow others and affiliations
2018 (English)In: Proceedings: IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IEEE, 2018, p. 4913-4919Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Data centers are important players in the energy infrastructure. Aiming at addressing environmental challenges, large data centers such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo, etc., are increasing share of green power in their daily energy consumption. Such trends drive research into new directions, e.g. sustainable data centers. The research often relies on expressive models that provides sufficient details however practical to re-use and expand. There is a lack of available data center models that capture dynamics of the facility from the CPU to the cooling tower. It is a challenge to develop a model that allows to describe complete data center of any scale including its connection to the grid. This paper proposes such a model building on existing work. The challenge was to put the pieces of data center together and describe dynamics of each element so that interdependencies between components and parameters are captured correctly and in sufficient details. The proposed model was used in the project “Data center microgrid integration” and proven to be adequate and important to support such study.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE, 2018. p. 4913-4919
Series
Annual Conference of Industrial Electronics Society, ISSN 1553-572X, E-ISSN 2577-1647
Keywords [en]
data center, model, cooling, server, CRAH, chiller, cooling tower, smart grid, microgrid
National Category
Computer Sciences
Research subject
Dependable Communication and Computation Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-73020DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2018.8591609ISI: 000505811104133Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85061557332OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-73020DiVA, id: diva2:1291848
Conference
44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2018), 21-23 October, 2018, Washington D.C., USA
Note
ISBN för värdpublikation: 978-1-5090-6684-1, 978-1-5090-6685-8
2019-02-262019-02-262020-10-05Bibliographically approved