Intel Sets 2020 Environmental Goals

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...s been recognized as the largest voluntary purchaser of green power in the United States, under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Green Power Partnership program. -- Since 2009, Intel has collaborated with third parties to complete 15 solar electric installations across nine Intel campuses in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon, Israel and Vietnam -- collectively generat... (Read Full Article)

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Q&A: Jeffrey S. Klaus of Intel Data Center Manager Solutions Talks Power ...

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...s power consumption and dynamically adjust platform power to achieve optimal performance and power. Intel DCM complements Intel Node Manager, but isn’t dependent on it to work effectively in the data center. WHIR: The EPA is planning some new Energy Star standards for data centers this year. What kind of impact might th... (Read Full Article)

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Q&A: Jeffrey S. Klaus of Intel Data Center Manager Solutions Talks Power Efficiency

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...s power consumption and dynamically adjust platform power to achieve optimal performance and power. Intel DCM complements Intel Node Manager, but isn’t dependent on it to work effectively in the data center. WHIR: The EPA is planning some new Energy Star standards for data centers this year. What kind of impact might th... (Read Full Article)

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Green Data Centers: Is It Worth Running a “Losing” Race?

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...s to making use of clean and renewable energy resources. Longstanding semiconductor industry leader Intel was singled out by the EPA Green Power Partnership member for making the greatest strides towards maximizing use of electricit... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft Debuts on EPA Green Power List, Ranking Third

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...equal to that created by the electricity use of more than 1.3 million American homes each year, the EPA reports. Intel has ranked No. 1 on the list since 2008 and uses more than 2.5 billion kWh annually, or 88 perce... (Read Full Article)

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Your PUE doesn't impress me

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...ut to suggest you stop measuring your PUE or stop reporting it internally and to the Green Grid and EPA ENERGY STAR® for data centers program. But the constant daily bombardment of my-PUE-is-one-dot-x in......on rate times your IT Performance rate (aka compute units per second, CUPS, or DCUE as developed by Intel). Now a little deductive reasoning says that a data center with a PUE of 2.0 and ... (Read Full Article)

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The Green Grid Turns Five, Ready for More

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 16 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Servers

...ore + By: Industry Perspectives February 16th, 2012 + + Tweet + + + Winston Saunders has worked at Intel for nearly two decades in both manufacturing and product roles. He has worked in his current role l......The Green Grid-Energy Star Project Management Office acts as a good-faith industry interface to the EPA for Energy Star rating on data centers, servers, UPSs and storage. The work done in The Green Grid ... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook Expands Green Open Hardware Push

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...centre in Prineville in Oregon. The project has since enrolled an impressive array of members, from Intel, Asus and Rackspace to Mellanox, Huawei and Red Hat, not to mention a few research and education in...... is a way to measure how efficiently a facility uses its energy; the closer to 1.0, the better. The Environmental Protection Agency has a standard PUE rate of 1.5. Facebook expects to get ... (Read Full Article)

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Looking forward: energy efficiency from the computer to the cloud

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...months: The conclusion, backed up by six decades of data, mirrors Moore’s law, the observation from Intel founder Gordon Moore that computer processing power doubles about every 18 months. But the power-co......t systems is most of the time), but we didn’t focus on that in the paper. You also mention that the EPA’s Energy Star program has had a substantial impact on electricity consumed by office ... (Read Full Article)

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Power Assure CTO Provides Insights into Data Center Energy Efficiency Rating ...

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...nergyStar rating system. To help IT managers more accurately determine when to refresh servers, the EPA created an EnergyStar rating system. But EnergyStar has a fundamental flaw similar to the one found......al, 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 FindMyHost.com.... (Read Full Article)

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Intel IT’s Top 5 Reasons for Implementing Cloud

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...mouly has over 12 years of experience in the technology industry, and over 9 years of experience at Intel Corporation. Ajay held a variety of IT, software and hardware engineering positions while at Intel, and also at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Ajay-Chandramouly Cloud computing is real inside Intel IT. In fact, it is one of our Top 3 Priorities this year (the other two are “consumerization” ... (Read Full Article)

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SynapSense Raises $16M for Data-Center Energy Monitoring

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... a $16 million round from VCs to help it expand. The startup, which was launched in 2006 by former Intel exec Peter Van Deventer and UC Davis computer science professor Raju Pandey, already had a long lis...... * SynapSense Raises $16M for Data-Center Energy Monitoring * Do-Gooder Apps, Brought to You by the EPA * What Utilities Should Know About Electric Cars * Consumers Losing Patience With the Slow Mobile W... (Read Full Article)

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Corporate America Embraces The Green Data Server

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...over 3,600 data centers — exploding demand from all kinds of businesses has become a challenge. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates data-center energy usage doubled from the dotcom boom days of 2000 to 2006 and will doubl......age doubled from the dotcom boom days of 2000 to 2006 and will double again by the end of 2011. The EPA says U.S. server farms used the same amount ... (Read Full Article)

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Energy Efficiency Guide: Data Center Temperature

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...praises of savings through higher baseline temperature settings in the data center includes Google, Intel, Sun and HP. But nudging the thermostat higher may also allow less time to recover from a cooling f......ngs compared to the test results,” said the report on the Clustered Systems technology, prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Some are deliberately pushing cooling water temperature even further. IBM deployed a supercomputer... (Read Full Article)

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Green power buyers? You might be surprised - By Doug Mohney

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its Top 50 list of Green Power Buyers this week.  Intel has the top spot with Kohl's Department Stores at number two and 100 percent of its power from gree... (Read Full Article)

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Researchers test energy saving in data centers

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...ower and cooling efficiency of the server facility,” said William Tschudi, a DC power researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who has provided technical leadership and represented the California Energy Commission (CEC) Public......r have now switched from standard AC-DC to DC-DC power. Five Oracle Sun Fire X4270 servers and five Intel 2600s have been outfitted with Delta Electronics, Inc. custom DC-DC power supplies. The Delta power... (Read Full Article)

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Lower Your PUE

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...th efficiency in mind should be able to implement these three steps and reach a PUE of 1.4 to 1.5. EPA projections for data center energy consumption are truly grim, unless businesses start implementing......ng PUE, data centers can keep their total consumption flat or even reduce it. Jon Haas, director in Intel’s Eco-Technologies Programs Office, part of the Digital Enterprise Group, confirms Weihl’s assessme... (Read Full Article)

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Retiring IT Assets for Green Reasons

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...positive returns for the environment and generate green for your bottom line. But, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 134.5 million IT assets currently sit idle in America alone – and a mere 18 percent are likely to ......are more than four years old may also be using more electricity than needed. Chip manufactures like Intel have created new processors that reduce the amount of power consumption in ... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft Joulemeter: Using Software to Green the Data Center

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...ore recently, attention has been turning to one feature common to all IT infrastructures: software. Intel, for example, recently unveiled its Energy Checker SDK in a bid to help developers optimize their c...... computers. As a whole, the IT industry is one of the fastest-growing energy-consuming sectors. an EPA study published in 2007, data centers in the U.S. consumed about 60 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in... (Read Full Article)

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Energy Efficiency Metrics Going Global

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...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 Ministry of Economy, the European Union Code of Conduct, and variou...... 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 ... (Read Full Article)

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COP15 Interview with Intel’s Lorie Wigle

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...t’s a big deal. As part of Climate Savers Computing, major companies such as Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Intel and Microsoft are working alongside the World Wildlife Fund and U.S. EPA’s Energy Star program. We recognize that the issues facing the industry are so complex that no one ... (Read Full Article)

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Is Sandia National Lab's Red Sky Really Able to Deliver a PUE of 1.035?

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... range.  Unfortunately most of the industry has a PUE of over 2.0, some are as bad as 3.0, and the EPA reports the industry average is 2.0 (Report to Congress on Server Data Center Efficiency). A PUE......house.   My notes from the Red Sky Video follow: ·         47,232 cores of Intel EM64T Xeon X55xx (Nehalem-EP) 2930 MHz (11.72 GFlops) o   553 Teraflops ·         In... (Read Full Article)

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Novel cooling solution boosts energy efficiency

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Novel Way to Cool Data Centers Passes First Test

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A team of engineers led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has successfully tested a novel system that they say could greatly improve the efficiency of data c......tion and cool their equipment 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... (Read Full Article)

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