Posts Tagged ‘challenge’

The Green Grid

Friday, April 17th, 2009

In the video, Jon Haas of Intel’s EcoTechnology Program Office explains how The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to developing and promoting energy efficiency for data centers and information service delivery, is tackling the energy issues. Data center managers around the world are running into limits related to power, cooling, and space – and the rise in demand for the important work of data centers has created a noticeable impact on the world’s power grids. In response, the members of The Green Grid have taken up the challenge of developing metrics to measure data center efficiency and the tools to improve it. (more…)

Take the Data Center Efficiency Challenge

Monday, March 30th, 2009

To spur creativity in harnessing the efficiency of the Intel® Xeon® 5500 Processor Series to help create more energy efficient data centers, Intel recently announced the Data Center Efficiency Challenge. This competition turns the cameras on you and asks you to submit a video proposal for how your organization plans to utilize Intel technology to drive more efficiency for your datacenter.
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Digging Multi-Core Performance

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Introducing new social networking features was creating processing challenges on the back end for Digg. In replacing its older servers with more powerful systems that could support business growth and new service rollouts, Digg chose Penguin Relion* servers with the Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series to increase processing density. Get the rest of the story. (more…)