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Intel Buys InfiniBand Franchise
Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Jan 24 2012)
...nterprise products from companies such as Oracle (for its high-speed Exadata and Exalogic servers), IBM (in its System p servers), EMC Isilon (high-end storage), and others. “Consistent with what we’ve s......e able to implement this by 2018. The exascale initiative has been endorsed by two US agencies: the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration. The IT would be used in various computation-in...
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Comment Mentions: Intel Oracle Department of Energy
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Power Assure and ABB Presenting "Breakthroughs in Data Center Reliability and ...
Explore Home | Benzinga.com (Oct 29 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers
...nology Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Good Energies, Point Judith Capital, and a grant from the Department of Energy. Power Assure partners include ABB, Cisco, Dell, IBM, Intel, Raritan, UL and VMware. Power Assure is a registered trademark of Power Assure, Inc. All pr...
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Comment Mentions: Intel Cisco Department of Energy
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IBM Files Patent For 100 Petaflop Supercomputer
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 13 2011) Supercomputer
IBM has filed a patent for a massive supercomputing system that could reach 107 petaflops, more than 12......20110219208) was filed January 10, 2011 and a second (20110219188) were filed with support from the Department of Energy contract B554331 with Lawrence Livermore NationalLabs.
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Comment Mentions: Department of Energy IBM
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IBM To Power 20 Petaflop Supercomputer
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 30 2011) Supercomputer
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Power 7 vs. SoC
With the plug pulled on the 10 petaflop Power7-based Blue Waters for NCSA, IBM is working with two Department of Energy labs for a 10 petaflop ‘Mira’ system at Argonne National Lab and a 20 petaflop “Sequoia” at Lawrenc...
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Comment Mentions: Department of Energy IBM
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Power Assure CTO Provides Insights into Data Center Energy Efficiency Rating ...
Explore MyHostNews (Aug 23 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers
...nology Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Good Energies, Point Judith Capital, and a grant from the Department of Energy. Power Assure partners include ABB, Cisco, Dell, IBM, Intel, Raritan, UL and VMware. Research, evaluate and learn more about website hosting at FindMyHo...
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What will modularity cost you?
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Mar 9 2011) Construction , Power and Cooling
...ording to Mark Bramfitt, an independent consultant. Bramfitt has recently been commissioned by the US Department of Energy to write a guide for federal agencies for buying modular data centers, focusing mostly on contain......ederal agencies for buying modular data centers, focusing mostly on containerized solutions. “The DoE is interested in making sure that federal agencies are aware of energy efficiency and deployment is...
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Comment Mentions: Uptime Institute Department of Energy IBM
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Sensing the Future of Greener Data Centers
Explore Scientific Computing (Jan 10 2011) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Servers
...ctricity consumption for a tab of $4.5 billion and growing. The problem is worrying enough that the U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded $47 million in grants for data center efficiency research.
Cost and carbon footpr......sor at Stanford University. High-performance computing researchers are tackling those issues at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) located at Berkeley Lab. NERSC is pi...
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Comment Mentions: Google Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Department of Energy
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Biggest Problem for Exascale Computing: Power
Explore Reuters.com (Dec 13 2010) Wind , Supercomputer
... The IMEC project manager says the goal is to cut that 7 GW down to 50 MW — clearly a massive drop. IBM VP of Deep Computing David Turek, told Stacey that when supercomputers are built at the exascale le......ere’s also been a recent effort underway to share computing power for climate research. Both the Department of Energy and Google recently announced computing sharing projects focused on climate change ...
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Comment Mentions: Google Department of Energy Facebook
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25 new IT companies to watch
Explore IDG News Service (Oct 25 2010) Cloud Computing
... rise of giants like Intel and Microsoft but also the demise of several mainframe vendors not named IBM, says Zeus Kerravala, an analyst with the Yankee Group. But predicting which new company will disti......s: Smooth-Stone and SeaMicro. Backed by plenty of venture capital and a $9.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, SeaMicro says its servers consume 75% less power and space than traditional machines ...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Amazon.com Larry Ellison
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How to Put Green IT to Work - It Management
Explore baselinemag.com (Jul 1 2010) Solar , Servers
... luxury for executives with a conscience. Here’s what it takes to make energy efficient IT pay off: IBM reports a “Green Gap” in U.S. office buildings. Only one-third of workers say their buildings are e......d consortium is a leader with metrics, calculators, and best practices. Additional green resources: U.S. Department of Energy Save Energy Now Program: http://www1.eere.energy.gov/industry/datacenters U.S. Department ...
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Comment Mentions: Google The Green Grid Department of Energy
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Is there money in being 'green'?
Explore zdnet.com (Jun 25 2010) Fossil Fuel , Solar , Servers
...ion is tiny in comparison to the behemoths of the multibillion-dollar Web-hosting market, including IBM and AT&T. But Solar Data Centers is slowly carving out a niche, serving more than 300 customers, su...... But Solar Data Centers is slowly carving out a niche, serving more than 300 customers, such as the U.S. Department of Energy's Million Solar Roofs program and the Portland Oregon Visitors Association, which have ...
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Comment Mentions: United Kingdom Department of Energy IBM
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Australia going smart-grid
Explore Technology News (Jun 9 2010) Emissions , Fossil Fuel
...laboration of several Australian government ministries, private contractors including GE Energy and IBM Australia, and Energy Australia, one the country's leading electricity utilities. Australia going s......Joe Biden, who has taken the lead in the Obama administration's smart-grid push, announced that the U.S. Department of Energy would give $3.4 billion in smart-grid technology development grants, and $615 million for regiona...
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Comment Mentions: Department of Energy IBM
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Energy Efficiency Metrics Going Global
Explore Relocate (Apr 8 2010) Servers
...erning energy efficiency metrics for data centers. Parties to the agreement include segments of the U.S. Department of Energy, as well as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Energy Star program, Japan’s Ministr......iency improvement in data centers. Members of the consortium include technology giants such as AMD, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and Oracle, as well as other critical companies such as Cisco, Google, and Texas...
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US, Europe, Japan agree on data center efficiency ...
Explore NetworkWorld.com (Apr 2 2010) Servers
... Orchestrated by the Green Grid, an industry consortium in the U.S., the agreement is backed by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the European Union Code of Conduct and the Japan Ministr......e us a common measuring stick for all data centers regardless of their location," said Tom Brey, an IBM employee who is secretary of The Green Grid, in a statement. "With ...
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Comment Mentions: Europe The Green Grid ASHRAE
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HP, Eaton Team on Pod-Style Enclosures
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 26 2010) Construction , Solar
A grant for $7.4 million from the Department of Energy will accelerate the development of new enclosures that can improve the energy efficiency of existin......g power distribution, with both AC and DC power options available. In its funding announcement, the DOE noted that the design allows for a DC system to allow the integration of renewable energy sources, ...
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Comment Mentions: Department of Energy IBM
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DOE to IT industry: We'll help you get more energy-efficient, if it costs us
Explore ZDNet Technology News (Jan 20 2010) Solar , Wind , Servers
...nt Hewlett-Packard and power efficiency specialist Eaton have snagged a $7.4 million grant from the Department of Energy to help fund research focused on improving energy efficiency in IT products.
The pair’s joint pr......waste as power moves from one system to another
Cooling - More effective methods for reducing heat DOE to IT industry: We'll help you get more energy-efficient, if it costs us Posted by Heather ...
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Comment Mentions: Hewlett Packard Department of Energy Hewlett-Packard Co.
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Your Tax Dollars At Work
Explore Forbes.com (Jan 11 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers
he U.S. Department of Energy's decision to dole out $47 million in research funding to improve energy efficiency in data centers......t every technology road map from a wide swath of vendors ranging from ( INTC - news - people ) to ( IBM - news - people ) to ( CSCO - news - people ) focuses heavily on reducing power consumption and cut...
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Comment Mentions: Intel Department of Energy IBM
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DOE announces grants for Green Data Centers
Explore NetworkWorld.com (Jan 7 2010)
Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo and Alcatel-Lucent are among the recipients of grants from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for projects on improving energy efficiency in the IT and communication technology industries.
......ved a second grant for $300,000 to develop methods to synchronize telecom network energy demand. -- IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center received two grants, totalling $4 million, for projects to develop li...
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Comment Mentions: Yahoo Hewlett Packard Network World
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The Smart Grid: IT vendors' new cash cow?
Explore greenercomputing.com (Sep 15 2009)
... for another kind of green --- cash. Multiple billions of dollars are at stake annually.
Cisco, IBM, and other big-name IT vendors have already targeted the Smart Grid. But there are plenty of other ......rt Grid business. Siemens isn't alone, of course. One bit of proof of that is the response that the U.S. Department of Energy received for federal dollars to fund projects related to the Smart Grid ...
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Comment Mentions: New York Times The New York Times Cisco
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Novel cooling solution boosts energy efficiency
Explore computerworlduk.com (Sep 11 2009) Servers
...etween 2000 and 2006, and could double again by 2011 if practices aren't improved, according to the US Department of Energy. Server equipment in data centres needs to be kept within a certain temperature range. Hardware can......pment more than they need to. The Lawrence Berkeley engineers, working with Intel, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Emerson Network Power, have been experimenting with a way to deliver just the right amount of ... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Intel Hewlett Packard Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Novel Way to Cool Data Centers Passes First Test
Explore pcworld.com (Sep 10 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers
...etween 2000 and 2006, and could double again by 2011 if practices aren't improved, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
A team of engineers led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has successfully tested a novel......pment more than they need to. The Lawrence Berkeley engineers, working with Intel, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Emerson Network Power, have been experimenting with a way to deliver just the right amount of ...
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Comment Mentions: Intel Hewlett Packard Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Is smart grid the next green-tech bubble?
Explore Technology News (Jun 19 2009) Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind
WASHINGTON--Here at a conference on the utility of the future, the starring players are Google, IBM, Cisco Systems, Intel, and smart grid start-ups. The reason? Data. Modernizing the grid isn't ju...... are seeking to capitalize on initiatives around the world to upgrade the power infrastructure. The U.S. Department of Energy is expected to soon announce how billions of dollars in stimulus money for smart grid will be alloc... (Read Full Article)
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Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility working to get more science per watt
Explore EurekAlert! (Apr 14 2009) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Servers , Supercomputer
...ter consumes more electricity than is required to run the machine, even machines as powerful as the IBM Blue Gene/P -- called Intrepid -- at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. Though Intrepid is one of the fastest and most energy-efficient comp......ter consumes more electricity than is required to run the machine, even machines as powerful as the IBM Blue Gene/P—called Intrepid—at the U ... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Department of Energy IBM
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