Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Google Adapts Its Ten Rules to Datacenter Building
Being a tech giant means getting in front of new technologies that promote energy efficiency and a lot of that emphasis has lately fallen on the designing and building of greener datacenters. On Tuesday, Google's Vice President of Data Centers Joe Kava referenced Google's founding principles when speaking on how to properly build datacenters at ... Full article
Improving Computational Capabilities Using Green at CEBio
Constrained by the limitations of its existing cluster, CEBio (The Center for Excellence in Bioinformatics)—part of Brazil’s prestigious FIOCRUZ organization—deployed the Convey HC-1 ex hybrid-core computer to upgrade its bioinformatics capabilities and reign in power consumption growth. Full article
Exploring CAE as a Service in the UberCloud Experiment
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/cloud.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" />The cloud-based experiment seeks participants from the HPC, CAE, life sciences, and big data communities, where we will jointly apply the cloud computing services model to compute intensive workloads on remote cluster computing resources. Full article
Greenpeace Lauds Salesforce Energy Commitment
Environmental advocacy organization Greenpeace has lauded cloud-sharing service Salesforce for sharing their energy information and committing to fuel a portion of their data center activity with renewable energy. Full article
Beating the High Cost of 3D Printing
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/lyman.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="66" />If traditional inkjet printers have taught us anything, it's that the true expense of a printer is in the ink. Its cost per unit volume surpasses that of gold, oil, perfume and even human blood in most cases, making it the most expensive liquid many of us will ... Full article
A New Tool for Building Energy Efficient Servers
At the request of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is developing something called the Server Efficiency Rating Tool (SERT) for the EPA’s second iteration of their server ENERGY STAR for Computer Servers program. Full article
Green Technology and Servers
You might well believe that computer servers consume vast amounts of energy, not only due to the fact that they run non-stop 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, but also because they require heavy-duty cooling systems and related equipment to keep them functioning properly. While it may be true that older server technology ... Full article
Survey: GCR, IDG Connect to Gauge Green IT Perceptions
In one sense, the notion of green IT has been around for long enough to be relevant in the general IT world. In another sense, it is still fledgling. So which is it? Green Computing Report is partnering with IDG Connect to find out. Full article
Can HPC Cloud Technology Help the Building Industry Go Digital?
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/skyscraperscloud.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="106" />Is there an opportunity for digital manufacturing to expand into the design and construction of skyscrapers, condominiums and residential homes? Greg Howes, a founding member of the Digital Fabrication Alliance (DFA) thinks so. What’s more, Howes believes that high performance computing in the cloud (HPC Cloud) just might ... Full article
Groundwater Flows through New Datacenters
Supercomputing operators have to be more environmentally conscious than average to account for growing carbon and energy costs. One solution may be to use the Earth to provide the facility’s power and cooling. To be more specific, instead of drilling into the Earth to harvest minerals or oil to fuel electric power plants, whose energy ... Full article
4D Printing: Manufacturing Intelligent Machines
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/4dprinter.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="54" />Each week, 3D printing seems to be behind yet another breaking news headline. In light of recent breakthroughs in stem cell and live-tissue printing, it feels like we've only just now realized the depth of additive manufacturing's potential. But a new idea from MIT may have given us ... Full article
Additive Manufacturing Takes to the Highway
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/urbee.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />For decades the automotive industry has designed every facet of its cars' inner workings around a heavy steel body. But as four-cylinder options become more powerful, bigger engines have fallen by the wayside, ushering in an age of smaller, more efficient vehicles. Helping this movement along its way ... Full article
Siemens Boosts PLM with D-Cubed Update
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/d-cubed.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="87" />Digital manufacturing offers clear advantages over traditional methods, particularly in the area of prototyping. There, product lifecycle management (PLM) software can act as an extension of a designer's and engineer's imagination to create a product that reflects its inspiration down to the pixel. At the core of many ... Full article
Iceotopes Cools University of Leeds
<p>Server cooling company Iceotopes has been experimenting and developing a system that uses unique materials such as Novec to propagate heat transfer. After demonstrating the prototypes at a Cebit trade show in Germany almost a year ago, the company has spent the interim determining how to mass-produce the cooled server racks.</p> Full article
Location and Innovation Intersect on MIT’s Manufacturing Map
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/innovation.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />In the wake President Obama calling for the creation of 15 manufacturing innovation hubs in his State of the Union Address earlier this month, MIT has announced the results of a two-year-long study investigating how manufacturing and innovation can build upon one another in the United States. Full article
Photovoltaic Demand Misses Expected Value
A significant portion of green computing is using alternative energy sources to power data centers. For example, the Massachusetts Green HPC Center, which we profiled here last week, is using a hydro-electric plant in Holyoke to provide up to 75 percent of its energy. One of those alternative energies is photovoltaic solar power. Unfortunately, according ... Full article
From 3D Printing to 3D Pens
<div><img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/TourlEiffel.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" /></div> New technology in its earliest stages remains the domain of the scientists and inventors. Traditionally, the stumbling block has been finding a manufacturer to invest in its production, but thanks to crowd-based funding initiatives such as Kickstarter, a new model may supplement or even supplant the investor setup. Full article
Reshoring Into American Eco-Industrial Clusters
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/reshoring.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="76" />As the reshoring trend is gaining strength, it is important to evaluate innovative, alternative solutions to the past industrial models. Otherwise, it might be difficult to ensure that the return of manufacturing in the US will be resilient in response to any future attempts of delocalization in serving ... Full article
Stocking Tractor-Trailers with MPGs
<div><img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Truck.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" /></div> According to an informational video produced by HPC for Energy, these trucks constitute 12 percent of the fuel consumption in the United States. Work done by the Navistar in concert with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory showed that a significant portion of that fuel consumption could be reduced ... Full article
Nlyte Optimizes Green Datacenter Design
<p>Designing a datacenter has to take a lot of optimization into account, from performance and latency to, lately, energy costs and waste. CloudNician Founder and CEO James Grundvig interviewed executives from Nlyte, including CEO Doug Sabella and Marketing VP Mark Harris, on the interest in increasing data center efficiency.</p> Full article