Results tagged “green computing” from O'Reilly News

Audio: Luiz Barroso on Energy Proportional Computing

By Timothy M. O'Brien
July 1, 2008 | Comments: 0
Audio: Luiz Barroso on Energy Proportional Computing
Luiz Barroso talks about the concept of Energy Proportional computing and how he thinks DRAM and disk manufacturers could do a better job creating devices consume energy in proportion to the computing to perform. Barroso and Holzle analyzed 5000 servers at Google over six months and found the average CPU utilization was between 15-45% - the region in which a computer operates the least efficiently. At issue is the fact that most manufacturers maximize efficiency to SPECpower which assumes that the computer is running at 100% utilization.

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Building the Green Data Center

By James Turner
June 20, 2008 | Comments: 2
Bill Coleman, founder and CEO of the Cassatt Corporation, and one of the founders of BEA, has made it his mission to make data centers more energy-efficient. We caught up with him right before the O'Reilly Velocity conference where he is scheduled to speak to get some pointers on making data centers planet-friendly.

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Using Green to Sell ZFS

By chromatic
June 11, 2008 | Comments: 2
What's most interesting to me about Jonathan Schwartz's Anything But a Flash in the Pan isn't the argument that solid-state storage devices will make servers faster, more reliable, and less power-hungry. (If you pay attention to Brian Aker -- of...

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