Author Archives: Nicole Hemsoth
Nicole Hemsoth
In Defense of ICT’s Impact on Climate Change
December 7th, 2012
From the New York Times article "Power, Pollution and the Internet" to Greenpeace's criticisms of the heavy use of carbon-emitting energy sources by Amazon and other cloud computing datacenters, the ICT industry is getting a lot of criticism for ...
Shipping Outsourced Jobs Back Home
December 6th, 2012
<img src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/AppliancePark.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="67" />When General Electric's Appliance Park was first conceived, more than likely its designers hoped it would be the embodiment of American ingenuity and prosperity. Unfortunately, they were wrong. For the past decade, the park, ...
What Does It Really Mean To Be Green?
December 6th, 2012
Author Brian Proffitt criticizes "greenwashing" in IT industry. Does lower energy consumption constitute green computing? What about the concepts of "sustainable" and zero carbon?
PROFILE: Rochester Institute of Technology Launches University-Industry Partnership to Explore Advanced Printed Electronics
December 5th, 2012
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/deniscinlab.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="60" />In PROFILE we highlight initiatives by government, non-profit organizations, academia and industry that are designed to drive advanced manufacturing. This story features RIT’s collaborative efforts with several high tech firms, along with ...
Apple Doubles Its Fuel Cell Farm At North Carolina Datacenter, Leapfrogging EBay
December 5th, 2012
Apple is doubling down on its fuel cell capacity at its datacenter in North Carolina, once again gaining bragging rights to the biggest fuel-cell powered datacenter by surpassing eBay. The fuel cells will provide up to 10 MW of ...
"Easy 3D" Printing Comes to Staples
December 5th, 2012
<img src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/iris_printer.png" alt="" width="95" height="123" />Although the technology has taken off in recent years, the fact remains that 3D printing is still largely unavailable to the public. But due to a new partnership between office supply giant, Staples and ...
Five Steps to Energy-Efficient IT Environment
December 4th, 2012
The Green Grid already offers metrics to help make efficient computing easier, such as PUE, WUE, and CUE. It also offers a summary of five steps data center operators and other IT professionals can use to become more energy ...
Autodesk Drives Innovative Concept Car
December 4th, 2012
<img src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/6a017c3334c51a970b017c3414c665970b-800wi.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="65" />From electric, encased motorcycles to self-driving vehicles, there are plenty of reasons for automotive enthusiasts to get excited about the future. But one recent concept developed at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico ...
EOS at EuroMold: Helping to Drive a Paradigm Shift?
December 3rd, 2012
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Logo_EuroMold_300dpi-copy.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" />Additive manufacturing (AM) was a major presence at the EuroMold 2012 fair held last week in Frankfurt. EOS, a German AM firm focused on laser-sintering, was one of the exhibitors determined to ...
Is There a Carbon Tax in Your Future?
December 3rd, 2012
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span style="color: #333333;">A U.S. tax on carbon emissions could cut the federal deficit in half in a decade and show the world that the U.S. is serious about combating global warming. M.I.T. Researchers, liberal and conservative ...
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