Madhusudan Iyengar and Roger Schmidt IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York Many of our day-to-day activities, including Internet searches, handheld electronics usage, automated cash withdrawal, and online hotel and airline reservations, require the use of remote databases and computational infrastructure comprised of large server farms located at some faraway location from the consumer. … [Read more...]
iPhone App for Data Center Managers
Raritan’s Power IQ® iPhone app helps data center and lab managers “on the go” quickly view real-time power load (watts and amps) and perform secure remote power control on any server or rack power distribution unit. A live-demo feature is also provided on the iPhone app, which enables users to try the app using servers running in Raritan’s IT Lab. Download the app from iTunes. … [Read more...]
Feds Could Save $1 Trillion with Smarter Tech and Practices
The federal government could save as much as a cool $1 trillion by 2020 by embracing several IT efforts such as virtualization and cloud computing, according to newly released report from the Technology CEO Council. In a report titled “One Trillion Reasons,” the IT industry advocacy group outlines seven broad initiatives that it says would be better suited to address the … [Read more...]
Microfluidic Polymer Cooling System Recognized
Finalists were announced last night for the Regional Cleantech Open Business Competition, which highlighted the broad scope of clean technologies and competencies of the Pacific Northwest. Winners included a water purification system, materials for cooling electronics in data centers and an all-electric commuter vehicle. From nanomaterials research at the University of … [Read more...]
Purdue Moves Supercomputer to Portable Data Center
Purdue University is moving its Steele supercomputing cluster to a portable, self-contained, modular computer center. Companies such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft make significant use of quickly deployed, energy-efficient containerized data centers. But Purdue is one of the first universities to do so and to use HP’s “POD” (Performance-optimized Data Center). The … [Read more...]
