Rutgers Builds Solar-Powered, Rooftop Computing Facility
Contractors recently installed 16 polycrystalline solar panels on top of a novel computing facility on the roof of Rutgers’s School of Engineering Building. Researchers will use Parasol, as it’s called, to study how to effectively manage computing and data processing with solar-generated electricity. Parasol was introduced to the computer-science world at last month’s EuroSys 2012. Ricardo Bianchini and Thu D. Nguyen, professors of computer science, are directing the project. Bianchini has received more than $1.5 million in National Science Foundation grants for research into energy efficiency in computing. Also, Google Inc. has awarded a three-year, $1.5 million grant aimed at slashing energy usage in large Internet data centers to a team led by Bianchini and computer scientists at the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of Michigan, and the University of Virginia....
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