Author Archives: Nicole Hemsoth
Nicole Hemsoth
eBay Builds Energy Efficiency Dashboard
March 8th, 2013
in the hands of eBay, it could mean the start of a conversation that brings about a new focus on the green technology movement. This week at The Green Grid Forum 2013, eBay debuted their Digital Service Efficiency dashboard, ...
Creating Cranial Implants with CAD
March 8th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/GuoSkull.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="76" />After suffering an accidental blow to the head during a soccer match, Jiahone Guo's brain began to swell. The odds of surviving such a trauma were about 50-50, but traditional skull grafts ...
Bringing Price Optimization to Manufacturing
March 7th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/priceoptimization.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="92" />While PLM platforms often dominate manufacturing-specific software news, analytics for digital manufactures is steadily gaining momentum. But you don't have to be a manufacturing giant to take advantage of big data, as ...
The Green Grid Forum 2013 Tackles Metrics, Standards
March 7th, 2013
This year’s The Green Grid Forum opened up a dialogue about efficiencies and regulations within the data center industry, giving organizations the opportunity to standardize and measure the amount of energy they use.
Exploring CAE as a Service in the UberCloud Experiment
March 6th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/cloud.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" />The cloud-based experiment seeks participants from the HPC, CAE, life sciences, and big data communities, where we will jointly apply the cloud computing services model to compute intensive workloads on remote cluster ...
Google Adapts Its Ten Rules to Datacenter Building
March 6th, 2013
Being a tech giant means getting in front of new technologies that promote energy efficiency and a lot of that emphasis has lately fallen on the designing and building of greener datacenters. On Tuesday, Google's Vice President of Data ...
Improving Computational Capabilities Using Green at CEBio
March 6th, 2013
Constrained by the limitations of its existing cluster, CEBio (The Center for Excellence in Bioinformatics)—part of Brazil’s prestigious FIOCRUZ organization—deployed the Convey HC-1 ex hybrid-core computer to upgrade its bioinformatics capabilities and reign in power consumption growth.
Greenpeace Lauds Salesforce Energy Commitment
March 5th, 2013
Environmental advocacy organization Greenpeace has lauded cloud-sharing service Salesforce for sharing their energy information and committing to fuel a portion of their data center activity with renewable energy.
Beating the High Cost of 3D Printing
March 5th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/lyman.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="66" />If traditional inkjet printers have taught us anything, it's that the true expense of a printer is in the ink. Its cost per unit volume surpasses that of gold, oil, perfume and ...
Survey: GCR, IDG Connect to Gauge Green IT Perceptions
March 4th, 2013
In one sense, the notion of green IT has been around for long enough to be relevant in the general IT world. In another sense, it is still fledgling. So which is it? Green Computing Report is partnering with ...
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