by A. Bieswanger M. Andres J. Van Heuklon T. Mathias H. Osterndorf S. Piper and M. Vanderwiel
In May 2007, IBM announced Project Big Green, an initiative M. R. Vanderwiel
designed to accelerate the adoption of green technologies and
services in order to make data centers more energy efficient. An
integral part of this strategy is to enable power and thermal
monitoring on all IBM server platforms. The IBM System z10™
server delivers these capabilities and is the first system in its class
on the market to provide this functionality. This paper introduces
the z10™ power and thermal monitoring architecture and provides
an end-to-end view of the underlying technology, from reading
voltage and current to visualizing trending information in the
Active Energy Manager extension to IBM Director.
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