Performance Per Watt - Other Energy Efficiency Measures

Other Energy Efficiency Measures

SWaP (space, wattage and performance) is a Sun Microsystems metric for data centers, incorporating energy and space.

SWaP = Performance / (Space × Power)

Where performance is measured by any appropriate benchmark, and space is size of the computer.

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