Calculators & Tools

Calculators for energy estimation and consumption

Below are white papers describing methods and algorithms on how to calculate power and cooling:

• APC White Paper #3 - Calculating Total Power Requirements for Data Centers - Richard Sawyer
• APC White Paper #25 - Calculating Total Cooling Requirements for Data Centers - Neil Rasmussen
• APC White Paper #157 - Selecting an Industry-Standard Metric for Data Center Efficiency - Neil Rasmussen

Vendor-proprietary calculators:

• HP Power Calculator Utility: a tool for estimating power requirements for HP ProLiant rack-mounted systems

• Dell Data Center Capacity Planner (External Link)

• IBM System x and BladeCenter Power Configurator (External Link)

• Sun SWaP (Space, Watts and Performance) Metric Calculator (External Link)

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