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    1. Lawrence Livermore to Use HPC to Advance Clean Energy Technology

      Explore HPCwire (Oct 25 2011)

      Lawrence Livermore to Use HPC to Advance Clean Energy Technology Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today issued a call to energy businesses of all sizes for proposals to collaborate with LLNL teams of experts in advancing energy technology through the use of high performance computing (HPC). This one-year pilot program, called the hpc4energy incubator, aims to accelerate the development of energy technology and boost U.S. competitiveness in the global marketplace by teaming industry with the scientific and computing resources at national laboratories. Companies with the winning proposals will collaborate with LLNL scientists and use LLNL’s HPC systems to find solutions to urgent problems and learn how to employ HPC as a powerful tool for innovation. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    2. Eddie Gets Power Boost, Goes Green

      Explore HPCwire (Jul 6 2010) Power and Cooling , Grid Computing

      Eddie Gets Power Boost, Goes Green Multi-disciplinary researchers from across the University of Edinburgh -- working in areas including bioinformatics, speech processing, particle physics, material physics, chemistry, cosmology, medical imaging and psychiatry -- will now benefit from a significant upgrade to the University's shared, high performance computer (HPC) system known as "Eddie." The new HPC system, operational from July 2010, immediately doubles the compute power available to researchers enabling them to run more complex computer simulations and scenarios, and obtain research results more quickly. A second planned upgrade for 2011 is expected to result in at least five times the current compute power of Eddie being available to researchers. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Europe   Intel   IBM

    3. The Coming "C" Change in Datacenters

      Explore HPCwire (Jun 15 2010) Monitoring , Cap and Trade , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel

      The Coming "C" Change in Datacenters Recently, I was at the Uptime Institute in New York and had several conversations about carbon dioxide (CO2) management for datacenters. Energy consumed by US datacenters in 2010 will reach 3 percent of overall US energy production. This will double in about five years given that the annual growth in datacenter energy consumption is 10 percent. Increases in datacenter CO2 emissions should mirror energy consumption increases since most datacenters will be unable to convert to greener, cleaner, renewable energy sources. The good folks at the Uptime Institute estimate that datacenter CO2 emissions will quadruple between 2010 and 2020 (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Uptime Institute   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Netherlands