Author Archives: Nicole Hemsoth
Nicole Hemsoth
Google’s Needham Shows It’s Easy Being Green
March 29th, 2013
Rick Needham, director of energy and sustainability at Google, gave a presentation at the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco arguing that not only does the future of energy lie in green, but this future is cheaper as well.
Reining In Brown Energy Usage
March 29th, 2013
When renewable energy gets into the IT power mix, it adds a new wrinkle. While data centers and facilities could simply treat that power the same as that of coal or oil, regulating workflow such that the majority of ...
ORNL Brings Photonic Curing to Market
March 29th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/flexcircuit.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="68" />The transition from academia to industry is where most technologies and medical treatments meet their end, which has led the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer to recognize ORNL helping to bring ...
Google Glass to Be "Made in America"
March 29th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/googleglass.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="76" />In a consumer market where the smallest computers such as tablets and smartphones are rapidly becoming must-have items, Google's new eyeglass-sized “Glass” is the talk of the town. But unlike most other ...
Know What Your Server Costs
March 28th, 2013
With data centers beginning to exhaust their electrical capacity, it’s becoming increasingly important for organizations to know the total cost of ownership for these data centers. By estimating server consumption and knowing the resulting business expenses, organizations will extend ...
Could the Human Brain Inspire High Efficiency Computing?
March 28th, 2013
At just under 2500 Megaflops per Watt, the Appro Beacon machine at the University of Tennessee comes in at the top of the Green 500 list. Yet underlying this are the minds that designed that facility. More succinctly, the ...
Creating the Google of 3D Search
March 27th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/search.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="75" />What do you get when you combine 3D modeling with Google? According to manufacturing startup 3D Industri.es (3DI), the answer is 3dpartsource.com, their 3D geometric shape-based search engine. 3DI's tool will allow ...
A New Liquid Cooling Solution
March 27th, 2013
By replacing air conditioning systems with liquid cooling systems, Liquid Cool Solutions hopes to bring about higher efficiency regarding floor space, noise pollution, and of course effectively lowering the temperature of IT systems.
ORNL Kicks off Clean Energy Initiative with New Carbon Fiber Facility
March 27th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/cftf.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />In his 2013 State of the Union Address, President Obama cited clean energy technology and advanced manufacturing as the foundation upon which the U.S. economy could be rebuilt. One more brick of ...
Google Uses PUE Properly in POP Optimization
March 26th, 2013
It is refreshing when Google releases a case study where the measurement of PUE is utilized in the actual manner for which it was intended. Specifically, they measured, ran models, and optimized cooling procedures for several of their “Points ...
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