How Should Data Centre Energy Efficiency be Measured?
NVIDIA shares some thoughts as to how data centre efficiency should be calculated
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We've talked a little recently about energy use of data centres and HPC in particular. The clever people at NVIDIA have a few more ideas on the topic to share.
Dial It In: Data Centers Need New Metric for Energy Efficiency
Supercomputer and data center operators lack measures of useful work per unit of energy to gauge their progress toward sustainable computing.
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