Featured Articles
Amazon Designs New Green Digs
Amazon's Seattle headquarters are about to get a lot greener. New drawings released by the e-retailer feature a high-concept greenhouse design as the centerpiece of a three-block development project in the Denny Triangle area of downtown Seattle. Read more...
Toward an Energy-Efficient, High-Performance Datacenter
A team of researchers from the University of Florida has developed an innovative power management approach that enables high performance low-overhead datacenter operation on pure renewable energy sources.Read more...
Telcos to Slash Energy Use 90 Percent by 2020
Launched three years ago, GreenTouch is a global research consortium dedicated to dramatically improving the energy efficiency of data and communications networks. Despite exponentially-increasing network traffic, the group asserts that it is possible to reduce energy consumption 90 percent by 2020. Read more...
A Datacenter Without Walls
When you're running the largest datacenters in the world, low-carbon cooling techniques take on new significance. Microsoft is one of the IT giant's leading the datacenter optimization charge. Over the years the company has transitioned from heavy reliance on air-conditioning to more carbon-friendly cooling techniques, like air-side economization.Read more...
The Challenges of Energy Efficient Exascale Computing
At some point, the advancement in computer technology will lead to computing at one exaflops, or a thousand petaflops. Achieving this landmark goal is driving datacenters to meet the power and cooling requirements necessary to house that sort of computational power.Read more...
Mavericks Push the Green Envelope
Power consumption and cooling may be concerns for all IT departments, but high performance computing (HPC) demands large amounts of both. GigaOM held a webinar on Tue., April 23, entitled “Green HPC: how IT mavericks push the envelope with clean computing”Read more...
Green Revolution Powered by (Mineral) Oil
Austin-based Green Revolution Cooling uses mineral oil as the liquid for their datacenter cooling systems. The idea came to Christiaan Best as a friend described to him the cooling systems that were being installed at North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).Read more...
Making Datacenters Application Aware
To save on escalating datacenter costs, companies are taking different approaches to datacenter design. Some open the doors and let the cold air chill the servers, whole others use seawater to keep the server heat down. TSO Logic is focused on energy efficiency at the software level.
Read more...
NREL’s Skynet Stays Cool with RackCDU
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is relocating its Skynet HPC cluster to a new datacenter at the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) in Golden, Colo. At the heart of this move is Asetek’s RackCDU direct-to-chip “hot water” cooling system.Read more...
Cantrell Speaks on Success and Future of Icelandic Datacenters
Last week, GCR caught up with Cantrell to discuss the recent AFCOM award nomination, how the Icelandic datacenter came to be, and how it has attracted as much attention as it has received. Read more...
