Measuring Data Centre Energy Efficiency - Project Plan

Abstract

This is a project funded under the JISC Greening ICT initiative, call for projects 14/10 of October 2010. More specifically, it resides under initiative I of that call, “Rapid Innovation in ICT”. It is an experimental analysis providing real data relating to how we can accurately measure power consumption in different parts of the data centre. This will involve a real example of comparing the situation where all the different elements of data centre power consumption are measured on a single meter together with other parts of the university Estate, to a situation where we have a high level of detailed measurement. This will allow the calculation of the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) data centre, and also the comparative measurement of different parts of the data centre. 2. Aims and Objectives of th