by agleites | Jul 30, 2010 | Data Center
On our sister blog, ServerProblemsSolved.com, I’ve published some thoughts about the updated data center efficiency metric called PUE, short for Power Usage Effectiveness. If you are responsible for a data center or are interested in green IT, make sure to read...
by mnikolic | Jul 23, 2010 | Graphics Computing
Next time you feel like bemoaning the state of today’s big thumbed, small minded, video-game generation, think about the social benefit all those gaming man-hours are contributing to medical research. A team from UC San Diego created an algorithm for CT scan image...
by agleites | Jul 19, 2010 | IT Hardware
Multicore microprocessors, which emerged after CPU manufacturers hit the power wall and could not sufficiently cool the ever-shrinking transistors on single-core processors, hold a lot of promise for the future of computing. But one major obstacle prevents them from...
by agleites | Jul 9, 2010 | Data Center
IBM’s new data center offers bold new ideas about how to cool servers. It has long been taken for granted that the best way to control the temperature in a server room was to keep it as cool as possible by blowing out the heat generated by processors inside the...
by agleites | Jul 1, 2010 | Cloud Computing
When Platform Computing began as a company in 1992, computers were used by large organizations much like they had been for several previous decades. If a complex computing job needed to be run, it would be run on one machine, often only during certain times in the...
