CoolThreads Eco-Servers by Sun
January 23rd, 2006
Sun Microsystems is running an ad campaign for servers with their CoolThreads technology. They state on the website:
Research shows that UltraSPARC T1 processor performance could eliminate the number of Web servers in the world by half, slashing power requirements—having the same effect in reducing carbon dioxide emissions as planting one million acres of trees. (Discovery Magazine, Vol 26 No. 08, August 2005)They also have an application allowing companies to calculate their energy savings, with cool graphic diagrams of their networks. It looks kind of like Sim City.
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January 24th, 2006 at 9:59 am
It’s always good to see a change that’s good environment, and saves corporations money (meaning that it actually has a chance of being adopted). By far, the most expensive part of running a server farm today is power consumption by the servers and a/c, not the hardware as I once believed. I can’t wait to see the day when something like a Stirling engine is used to reclaim wasted heat from the CPUs themselves.