Industry Standards and Best Practices

• Think 8760 - each KW saved represents 8760KWH per year of energy savings. This represents 26,280KWH of energy over a typical 3 year server life-cycle. Think 8760 is about optimizing data center efficiency and all forms of computer and telecom/datacom 7x24 energy saving. http://www.think8760.org
• LEED Green Building Rating System - US Green Building Council is committed to expanding sustainable building practices - http://www.usgbc.org
  
• "LEED for Data Centers" - http://hightech.lbl.gov/dc-epc.html
  
• IEST - recommended practices and standards for cleanrooms - http://www.iest.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3280
  
• International Organizaiton for Standardization (ISO) - develops proprietary industry standards - http://www.iso.org/
  
• High-Performance Buildings for High-Tech Industry - A portal for data center facility resources, research, development and deployment - http://www.iest.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3280
  
• High Performance Data Centers: A design guidelines sourcebook - http://hightech.lbl.gov/documents/DATA_CENTERS/06_DataCenters-PGE.pdf 
• Data Center Energy Management  exploratory tools  and handbook -  http://hightech.lbl.gov/DCTraining/top.html 
  
• DC Power for Data Centers - http://hightech.lbl.gov/dc-powering/
  
• Server System Infrastructure - SSIforum enables future server market growth by standardizing interfaces between components, including boards, chassis, and power supplies, and by developing common server hardware elements. - http://www.ssiforum.org
  
• 80PLUS - an innovative, electric utility-funded incentive program to integrate more energy-efficient power supplies into desktop computers and servers - http://www.80plus.org/
  
• Electric Power Research Institute - collects and researches efficiencies of power supplies in the active mode - http://www.efficientpowersupplies.org/
  
• OpenMP parallel programming API specification - supports multi-platform shared-memory parallel programming in C/C++ and Fortran. OpenMP is a portable, scalable model with a simple and flexible interface for developing parallel applications on platforms from the desktop to the supercomputer - http://openmp.org/wp/ - GnuGOMP http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/gomp/
  
• Open modular computing specifications - PICMG develops open specifications for high performance telecom and computing applications. http://www.picmg.org/
  
• GHG protocol - accounting and reporting standards http://www.ghgprotocol.org/standards
  
• Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) data model - a neutral and open specification that is not controlled by a single vendor or group of vendors. It is an object oriented file format with a data model developed by buildingSMART (International Alliance for Interoperability, IAI) to facilitate interoperability in the building industry, and is a commonly used format for Building Information Modeling (BIM). The IFC model specification is open and available. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_Foundation_Classes