5. Glossary

ACF; Advanced Cooling Facility

Open Compute Project subcommittee in charge of facilitating the integration of advanced cooling techniques in data centers

ASHRAE; American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers

Association of engineers who produce technical recommendations on cooling techniques for data centers

Cache; cache

A cache memory (also called cache or ante memory) is a type of memory that is much faster than conventional memory, but much smaller in size, enabling the processor to access frequently-used data in just a few cycles. This data is replaced as soon as the cache needs space to store new data used by the processor.

Waste heat

Heat produced by computer equipment. It can be reused...