Further implementation aspects of the server efficiency rating tool (SERT)

Klaus Dieter Lange,Jeremy A Arnold,Mike G Tricker,Hansfried Block,John Beckett,Nathan Totura

doi:10.1145/2479871.2479926

Further implementation aspects of the server efficiency rating tool (SERT)

Klaus Dieter Lange, Jeremy A Arnold + Show 4 more

https://doi.org/10.1145/2479871.2479926

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Publication Date: Apr 21, 2013

Citations: 7

Affiliation: Hewlett-Packard (United States), IBM (United States), Microsoft (United States), Fujitsu (Germany), DELL (United States), Intel (United States)

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The Server Efficiency Rating Tool (SERT) has been developed by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) at the request of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Almost 3% of all electricity consumed within the US in 2010 went to running datacenters. With this in mind, the EPA released Version 2.0 of the ENERGY STAR for Computer Servers program in early 2013 to include the mandatory use of the SERT. Other governments world-wide that are also concerned by growing power consumption of servers and datacenters are considering the adoption of the SERT.

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