Energy Consumption Estimation - IBM Power 720 Overview

2.13.3 Energy consumption estimation

Often, for Power Systems, various energy-related values are important:
Maximum power consumption and power source loading values
These values are important for site planning and are in the hardware information center:
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/powersys/v3r1m5/index.jsp
Search for type and model number, and server specifications. For example for the
Power 740 system search for 8205-E6D server specifications.
An estimation of the energy consumption for a certain configuration
The calculation of the energy consumption for a certain configuration can be done in the
IBM Systems Energy Estimator:
http://www-912.ibm.com/see/EnergyEstimator/
In that tool, select the type and model for the system, enter various details of the
configuration and a desired CPU utilization. As a result, the tool shows the estimated
energy consumption and the waste heat at the desired utilization and also at full utilization.
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