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Intel: All processors shipped this year will be conflict-free

January 8, 2014 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Intel conflict-free processors

Excellent news from chipmaking giant Intel. CEO Brian M. Krzanich announced at CES that all of the microprocessors that it ships in 2014 will not contain conflict minerals. The company reported that it “had achieved a critical milestone and the minerals used in microprocessor silicon and packages manufactured in Intel’s factories are ‘conflict-free’ as concluded […]

Filed Under: Gadgets & Mobile, Servers Tagged With: conflict minerals, Intel, processor

Getting warmer… DoE’s data center cooling secret revealed

September 5, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

NREL Green Data Center

Warmth and water… Two things that don’t fit the brisk and bone dry image of a data center. But the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), along with HP and Intel, are blazing new trails in IT efficiency with a novel data center cooling system based on warm water for a new high-performance computing (HPC) site […]

Filed Under: Data Center Tagged With: cooling, Data Center, data center cooling, Department of Energy, high performance computing, HP, HPC, Intel, NREL

Power management on OpenStack clouds?

May 14, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

OpenStack Logo

HP’s public cloud… IBM and Red Hat on board… Rackspace finally making the jump… OpenStack is so hot right now. To discover why, check out ServerWatch, which has some great OpenStack coverage. The bottom line is that here’s a platform that has the potential to do for cloud infrastructures — public, private and hybrid clouds — what […]

Filed Under: Cloud Computing Tagged With: cloud, Cloud Computing, Intel, OpenStack, private cloud

Intel, Microsoft among top green energy buyers

April 25, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Wind turbine

A couple of IT companies made a strong showing on the EPA’s National Top 50 list of renewable energy buyers. According to the EPA, companies qualify for inclusion by meeting the following conditions: Organizations can meet EPA Partnership requirements using any combination of three different product options: (1) Renewable Energy Certificates, (2) On-site generation, and (3) […]

Filed Under: Cleantech & Renewable Energy Tagged With: Intel, Microsoft, renewable energy, renewables

Intel envisions energy-aware servers with Xeon E5

March 8, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Intel Sandy Bridge Die

When it comes to server efficiency, there are companies like Calxeda and SeaMicro — which was just acquired by AMD — that pack hundreds of low-power CPUs into servers that can handle massive workloads under relatively meager power requirements. But what about the standard, run of the mill box? It looks like Intel’s newest Xeons, […]

Filed Under: Data Center, Green IT, Servers Tagged With: computer servers, energy management, Intel, Intel Xeon, server, servers

AMD snaps up SeaMicro

March 1, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

SeaMicro server

Can news be both surprising and unsurprising? Let’s start with the unsurprising part of the announcement that AMD is acquiring SeaMicro, which is that the startup has been taken off the market for a cool $334 million. Since it unstealthed in June 2010, the company has attracted customers like Google and Mozilla with a dense, […]

Filed Under: Cloud Computing, Servers Tagged With: AMD, cloud, Intel, Intel Atom, Intel Xeon, SeaMicro, server, servers, startup

Can Intel’s Atom help green healthcare IT?

December 28, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Healthcare IT

Intel’s taking an interesting direction in marketing its latest Atom N2600 and N2800 processors, a.k.a. “Cedar Trail.” Sure, the company is talking up all the whiz-bang stuff its low-power, 32nm chips can do for consumers, like pump out 1080 video and stretch battery life for to up to 10 hours. But Intel’s also betting that healthcare […]

Filed Under: Gadgets & Mobile, Green IT Tagged With: ARM, healthcare IT, Intel, Intel Atom, iPad, tablets

NVIDIA GPUs, AMD CPUs for faster supercomputer at Oak Ridge

October 11, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: AMD, Cray, GPU, HPC, Intel, NVIDIA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, supercomputer, Top500

Tech heavies team for SATA DEVSLP, a low-power SSD standard

September 14, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Solid-state drives (SSDs) are pretty energy efficient, but there are those in the industry that feel that they can do a lot better and are partnering on developing a new standard called SATA DEVSLP. Who are they? They’re SanDisk, Samsung, Intel and Microsoft SanDisk. It’s important to note that three out of four of those […]

Filed Under: Storage Tagged With: energy efficiency, Intel, Microsoft, Samsung, SanDisk, SATA DEVSLP, solid-state drive, SSD, standards, Storage

Intel’s mobile strategy hinges on Android

September 13, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Poor Intel. (Insert sad emoticon.) Its energy-saving Atom chips helped fuel the rise of netbooks. But now, smartphones and tablets are all the rage and it’s ARM that’s reaping the rewards. So dominating is ARM in mobility that Microsoft’s touch-tastic Windows 8 OS will also run on the company’s processor tech. Now, after a seeming […]

Filed Under: Gadgets & Mobile Tagged With: Android, Android OS, ARM, Intel, Intel Atom, mobile, smartphone, tablets

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