Alliances
The Liquid Cooling Coalition (LCC) is a new industry forum dedicated to advancing the adoption of liquid cooling to enable a sustainable future for data centers. Membership consists of industrial coolant producers, original equipment manufacturers, original device manufacturers, operators of High Performance Computing applications (e.g., large language models, machine learning, etc.), and data center providers.
The LCC brings together key liquid cooling industry stakeholders to promote the widespread adoption of liquid cooling solutions for information and communications technology equipment in data centers and beyond.
Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) a non-profit corporation, establishes and maintains standardized, vendor-agnostic benchmarks and tools to evaluate performance and energy efficiency for the newest generations of computing systems.
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) was founded in 1988 by a handful of workstation vendors who recognized the desperate need for realistic, standardized performance tests.
SPEC has grown to become one of the world’s leading computing performance standardization bodies, with a membership of more than 120 leading computer hardware and software vendors, educational institutions, research organizations, and government agencies worldwide. Each quarter, SPEC publishes hundreds of different performance results spanning a variety of system performance disciplines.
SPEC believes that the user community benefits greatly from an objective series of applications-oriented tests that serve as common reference points during system evaluation. By making these benchmarks relatively easy to use, SPEC encourages the widespread publication of performance results.
To ensure accurate and comparable results, SPEC provides users with a standardized suite of source code based upon real-world applications. This code, already ported to numerous platforms by its members, enables users to compile and run the benchmarks on their own systems, optimizing performance for their specific needs.
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)
SNIA is a not-for-profit global organization comprised of member companies spanning the global storage market. SNIA’s mission is to lead the storage industry worldwide in developing and promoting standards, technologies, and educational services to empower organizations in the management of information. To this end, SNIA is uniquely committed to delivering standards, education, and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market.
The Green Grid and SNIA are collaborating in developing standards, measurement methods, and processes to improve data center performance against defined metrics and to promote the adoption of energy-efficient standards, processes, measurements, and technologies that improve overall data center resource efficiency. By sharing common objectives, the collaboration will enable the delivery of a complete and consistent set of information that benefits IT data centers and government bodies, such as the U. S. Department of Energy, the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, and other regional and global agencies that have data center and computer equipment resource efficiency programs. This collaboration will leverage SNIA expertise in networked storage and The Green Grid's expertise in computer servers and data center infrastructure.
Uptime Institute is an unbiased advisory organization focused on improving the performance, efficiency, and reliability of business critical infrastructure through innovation, collaboration, and independent performance certifications.
Uptime Institute serves all stakeholders responsible for IT service availability through industry leading standards, education, network, consulting, and award programs delivered to enterprise organizations and third-party operators, manufacturers, and providers. Uptime Institute is recognized globally for the creation and administration of the Tier Standards & Certifications for Data Center Design, Construction, and Operational Sustainability along with its Management & Operations reviews, Digital Infrastructure Resiliency Assessment, FORCSS® methodology, accredited infrastructure training programs and the Efficient IT Stamp of Approval.