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Saturday 1 October 2011

Energy Consumption Calculator for Data Centers Fall 2011 Project

Data centers interconnect servers to the clients to provide efficient services to the clients. As the Data centers contain thousands of Servers and other IT equipments cause increasing demand of electricity. This project will be related to electricity consumption calculation for the IT equipments, how much energy can be saved if some equipment is not working and what could be the effects on electricity bills?

Main Features:

IT equipment Details i.e Servers, Racks, Electricity Available
Total Energy Used. Electricity Cost per year.
Energy Saving Calculation by switching off Server or Virtualization
Graph Representation of Data
Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) i.e Total Power Entering in Center/Total power used by IT equipments
Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency (DCIE) Calculation which is the reciprocal of PUE
Impact on Electric Bills
Percentage of Energy Savings


Application Type:
Desktop

Tools Used:
Java, Dot Net

Note: Features could be increased or decreased later on.

Supervised by:
Adnan Asif
Mailing Address: adnanasif@vu.edu.pk