Sun's datacentre high "power usage effectiveness" in California
Tuesday Jan 13, 2009
Sun's state-of-the-art datacenter in Santa Clara, California, has attracted more than 2,000 visitors from 350 customers. The big draw: power usage effectiveness, or PUE. The center delivers a PUE of 1.28. That means 78 percent of the power goes to the actual compute equipment (up from as low as 25 percent in the worst case). "That's a huge jump," says Dean Nelson. "We shed a half a megawatt of required power and we shed $400,000 a year in utilities.
Do you want to read how Sun did it? Here is the link to download:
http://wikis.sun.com/display/BluePrints/Energy+Efficient+Datacenters+-+The+Role+of+Modularity+in+Datacenter+Design
"Energy Efficient Datacenters: The Role of Modularity in Datacenter Design"
by Dean Nelson, Michael Ryan, Serena DeVito, Ramesh KV, Petr Vlasaty, Brett Rucker, and Brian Day (June, 2008)
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