sustainability

Opinion: Think Caring, not Persuasive, Technology

Green is a metaphor for a healthy environment, and greening entails activities to restore and maintain its health. Given its current poor health, virtually all greening is aimed at ...Full Article

An Interview with EMC’s Chief Sustainability Officer

Green Computing Report speaks with EMC's Chief Sustainability Officer Kathrin Winkler about the company's latest sustainability report, the major drivers for energy efficiency and a new way of thinking ...Full Article

CoolEmAll Releases Prototype Datacenter Design Tools

The European Commission-funded project CoolEmAll has released the first prototypes of advanced tools aimed at facilitating more energy-efficient datacenters. Full Article

Don’t Crash That Datacenter: Power Engineers Discuss Problems And Solutions For Efficient Power Systems

Whether retrofitting, expanding or creating a new datacenter, electrical systems are important in order to cut costs and become more environmentally sound. What are some typical problems and solutions? Six experts ...Full Article

Reshoring: A Path to Sustainable Manufacturing in America

<div><img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17_-_2.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" />The concept of sustainability is still a subject of many debates, including the debate over whether or not to define and adopt ...Full Article

The ‘Greenest Data Center In The World’?

Syracuse Univeristy hopes its trigeneration, micro-turbine, absorption chiller data center will inspire others to get sustainable. Built with assistance from IBM and the New York State Energy Research and ...Full Article

Is EBay’s Use of Fuel Cells the Start Of a New Era?

EBay's Quicksilver data center in Utah uses fuel cells from Bloom Energy as the main powersouce, with the grid as backup. Why? Just because it likes clean energy, and ...Full Article

NCMS Roundtable Will Highlight Advanced Tools for Sustainable Design and Manufacturing

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMR_SustainableGearTree.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="83" />The June 12 gathering at NCMS headquarters in Ann Arbor, Mich., will review online tools, databases and guides that provide a sustainability ...Full Article

VIDEO: Autodesk Showcases Sustainable Design at Second Annual Sustainability Summit

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Screen_Shot_2012-02-27_at_10.38.09_AM.png" alt="" width="159" height="89" />Also presenting were a panel of customers discussing their use of Autodesk software to design greener buildings, better manufacturing processes, water turbines ...Full Article