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Datacenter Operators Weary of Green Messaging

According to a recent survey from the Uptime Institute, there's a new affliction hitting the datacenter community: green fatigue. The small players can't compete with the Googles and Microsofts ...Full Article

CoolEmAll Releases Prototype Datacenter Design Tools

The European Commission-funded project CoolEmAll has released the first prototypes of advanced tools aimed at facilitating more energy-efficient datacenters. Full Article

Swedish Datacenter Saves Big with Seawater

Datacenter operator Interxion uses seawater to cool its Stockholm facilities, saving over a million dollars in energy costs each year. Full Article

GM Invests in HPC Center for Crash Test Simulations

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/gmwarrendc.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="60" border="0" />As the cloud becomes an increasingly attractive option for manufacturers with big needs in IT, scalable options such as outsourced data ...Full Article

Toward an Energy-Efficient, High-Performance Datacenter

A team of researchers from the University of Florida has developed an innovative power management approach that enables high performance low-overhead datacenter operation on pure renewable energy sources.Full Article

A Datacenter Without Walls

When you're running the largest datacenters in the world, low-carbon cooling techniques take on new significance. Microsoft is one of the IT giant's leading the datacenter optimization charge. Over ...Full Article

Open Compute Project Tackles the Network

Open Compute Project president says something was missing, and that something was the connecting layer. Full Article

Mavericks Push the Green Envelope

Power consumption and cooling may be concerns for all IT departments, but high performance computing (HPC) demands large amounts of both. GigaOM held a webinar on Tue., April 23, ...Full Article

Is a Zero-Watt Solution Worth the Wait?

Today's businesses move at a rapid pace. Datacenters need to keep up with that pace. However, a datacenter will use up energy to instantaneously access a file. SGI proposes ...Full Article

Earth Day Special: Making Datacenters Greener

Datacenters consume 94.8 billion pounds of CO2 every year. Half of a datacenter's power goes to cooling. To celebrate Earth Day, Fusion-io created an infographic to share ways datacenter ...Full Article