Category Archives: green power

Processor architecture

Posted on September 5, 2010 by admin

I wish that processor architecture was not so committed to a obsolete model of software. For example, it has become clear over the last few years that the sloppy shared memory thread model of programming has multiple drawbacks. Sharing of … Continue reading →

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Virtualization and power use and spreadsheet games (updated)

Posted on July 29, 2010 by admin

Here’s a thought experiment. Suppose each server uses X watts idle and X+Y watts busy. If you have N programs that currently run on N servers that are Z% idle then in the best case you really only need D= … Continue reading →

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Power savings via software

Posted on March 4, 2010 by admin

This press release is particularly fluffy, but whatever the reality of this very vaguely defined algorithmic development the basic message is correct to validate nine terabytes of data (nine million million or a number with 12 zeros) in less than … Continue reading →

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