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Sun Summit on 21st Century Eco-Responsibility, November 14, 2005
CEO Scott McNealy and a panel of environmental thought leaders discuss how eco-responsibility can minmize harm to the planet and benefit business.

The following presentations were given at a conference entitled Enterprise Servers and Data Centers: Opportunities for Energy Efficiency, which brought together leading experts in the field. The first day was held at Sun Microsystems and the second day was held at Advanced Microdevices (AMD) in California's Silicon Valley. The meeting occurred on January 31st and February 1st 2006.

  1. Conference Objectives and Desired Outcomes.
    • Speaker: Jonathan G. Koomey, Stanford University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • An overview of the energy efficiency challenge and potential. Importance of defining appropriate metrics, whole-system redesign, and perverse incentives.
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  2. Defining the Landscape: Trends and Forecasts for the Enterprise Server Market and Data Centers
  3. Impacts and Importance of Energy Efficiency: Industry Viewpoint
  4. Understanding the Impacts and Savings Potential for More Efficient Enterprise Servers and Data Centers
  5. Maximizing Data Center Efficiencies Through Microprocessor Solutions
    • Speaker: Ben Williams, Vice President, Commercial Business Microprocessor Solutions, AMD
    • How microprocessor innovations can contribute to energy management. 64-bit technology and virtualization, intelligence (power management for peak utilization), and other strategies can provide up to 50% savings.
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  6. Question & Answer Period
  7. Thoughts on Server Metrics
  8. The PWRficient Processor
  9. Case Study: Expanding Existing Data Center
  10. From UPS to Silicon an End-to-end Evaluation of Data Center Efficiency
  11. Adaptive/Intelligent Control and Power Management Reduce Power Dissipation and Consumption
  12. ENERGY STAR: Why Rate Whole-Building Performance?
  13. Relationship Between Equipment Reliability and Energy Efficiency in Data Center Operation
  14. HVAC and Control System Design for Improved Energy Performance in Data Centers
    • Mark Hydeman, PE, Principal at Taylor Engineering, LLC
    • Achieving energy efficiency while maintaining reliability. Discussion of case study (datacenters 8.1 and 8.2): collocation facility (2 side-by-side designs. Best practices in design and operation, emerging technologies, and useful resources for more information.
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  15. Whole Building Energy Performance Rating: ENERGY STAR Approach to Building Benchmark Development
    • Alexandra Sullivan, US EPA ENERGY STAR: Introduction to the ENERGY STAR labeling approach. Discussion of challenges in expanding the current tool to be applicable to data centers.
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  16. Group Discussion: How to Incorporate into the ENERGY STAR Building Benchmarking Tool the Key Drivers of Energy Performance in Mission Critical Facilities
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  17. Conference Summary and Identification of Next Steps for the Development of the Whole Building Energy Performance Rating Tool
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