Tag Archives: green computing

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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The Amory Lovins bottleneck

Posted on February 8, 2010 by admin

Lovins observes that power inputs in many industrial processes go into a bottleneck that makes power conservation hard if you start at the wrong end.  The power goes into a long pipeline of process that emerges on the other end … Continue reading →

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