02.03. Working Group Data Center: Key Performance Indicator
Frankfurt, 02.03.2010 – The efficiency of a data center in previous years was defined mainly on the PUE (power usage effectiveness). At the last meeting of the data center working group it was identified that a single Key Performance Indicator (KPI), such as the PUE, is not sufficient for the assessment of energy efficiency. For this reason another benchmark should be considered in the first session of the working group in the new year.
The presentations are available for free download here.
AGENDA / Protocol »Dr. Ralph Hintemann, Senior Researcher from Borderstep Institute reported on the challenges for the evaluation of energy and resource efficiency in data centers. Hintemann, on the basis of the process chain of energy production to the processor and the software application, indicated starting points to the improvement of the energy efficiency.
Dr. Georg Riegel, Managing Director of deZem GmbH put the focus in his lecture (“playful search for nobel prize suspicious data center efficiency indicators beyond the PUE”) on increasing efficiency through transparency. Riegel concluded his presentation with a comparative efficiency analysis on the example of a hive.
As the last speaker of the afternoon, Gerhard Leo Buttner from the Design Institute Munich (DIM) presented various KPI’s in comparison. As a good benchmark for the overall efficiency of the evaluation Büttner recommended the CADE (Corporate Average Data Efficiency).
The presentations were followed by a tour through the data center of Databurg GmbH. Managing Director Peter Werner explained the special features of the company with a short presentation.
| 13:00 | Registration |
| 13:30 | Welcome Dr. Béla Waldhauser Head of data center working group |
| 13:45 | Energy rating A++? Challenges for the evaluation of the energy and resource efficiency in data centers Dr. Ralph Hintemann Borderstep Institute |
| 14:30 | Playful Search for Nobel suspicious Data Center Efficiency indicators beyond the PUE Dr. Georg Riegel deZem GmbH |
| 15:15 | Coffee break & Networking |
| 15:45 | PUE – DCIE – CADE: what is defined efficiency – how many indicators are needed? Gerhard Leo Büttner DIM – Design Institut München |
| 16:30 | Guided Tour – Databurg data center Peter Werner Databurg GmbH |
| 17:00 | End of event |
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