The Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Jaguar supercomputer is undergoing a $97 million upgrade that will not only result in a name change — soon to be known as “Titan” — but also stands a good chance of ruling the Top500 list of supercomputers when it’s complete in 2012. If and when that occurs, they’ll have graphics [...]
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Lately: A look at how Amazon’s Kindle Fire browser, Silk, could further blur the lines between the cloud and mobile devices. Google boosts its support for residential solar – with its checkbook, of course. Iceland hopes to lure data center operators with its chill, renewables-friendly ways. Also, Intel readies new Atoms as it works to unseat [...]
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Personally, I find gnomes more than a little creepy. But here’s one that I wouldn’t mind tending to my garden (if I had one). Commercial water management firm ET Water Systems, is out to help consumers save on their water bills and prevent damage to their plants from over-watering. With the release of Gnome, a [...]
Read more ET Water’s (garden) Gnome web app brings smart water management home
Though it pulled the plug on PowerMeter, Google’s still bullish on green technology. Today, two must-read links offer a glimpse into the company’s interest in cleantech, notably its market potential. But it will be all for naught if the public remain disinterested in the climate sciences. Luckily, Google’s tackling that, too. Google: Delaying Clean Energy [...]
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Today: Facebook discovers that its servers can take the heat resulting in cold aisles that are anything but. Also, Feds grab Instapaper’s server; startups take aim at cloud-unfriendly relational databases; and SolidFire plans SSD arrays that it says will (paradoxically) lead to lower data storage costs. Intriguing! All that, plus IBM’s HUGE energy savings in [...]
Read more Today’s 10 – Facebook gives new meaning to cold aisles
Today, some rumblings indicate that notebook manufacturers may be falling out of love with Intel and into ARM’s, well, arms! SemiAccurate has an interesting analysis that points to some potentially interesting tech coming from ARM and AMD. Also, cloud security and disaster recovery are attracting talent and attention; Microsoft’s looking beyond single-server virtualization; and Google [...]
It takes a lot of fuel to keep the U.S. military going, a fact that’s not lost on the Department of Defense (DoD). So the agency has crafted a plan called the “Operational Energy Strategy” that aims to dramatically improve efficiency and produce it own sources of energy — which includes renewables — both at [...]
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A virtualization-heavy list today, so let’s get started. VMware’s licensing cost structure shows signs of adaptability; Symantec discovers that virtualization and cloud tech fail to live up to their potential for many IT shops; and the Payment Card Industry sounds the alarm on credit card data stored in virtualized environments. All that, plus Intel’s vision [...]
Today: Home solar firm, SolarCity, has found a huge benefactor in Google; now’s not the time to be shy about the cloud’s green attributes (competitive advantages?); and NJ will soon be the home to the largest private solar power plant thanks, in part, to publishing giant McGraw Hill. And in a sign that ARM-powered servers [...]
Tsk tsk… The Consumer Electronics Association finds that when it comes to saving energy, consumers are game. Unfortunately, accomplishing it eludes them. Also, Violin’s flash-based data storage story keeps resonating with VCs; ARM’s journey to the data center might make a pitstop at PCs courtesy of Windows 8; and a cleantech incubator sprouts in San [...]
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