To deliver an immersive experience with the lowest real-world carbon footprint for each of its 88,000 concurrent users who spend more than 44 million hours and 43 million dollars in the virtual world every month, Linden Lab worked with Intel and systems integrator Silicon Mechanics to deploy energy-efficient servers equipped with Intel® Xeon® processors. Get the details on Creating an Immersive Virtual Experience and a Greener Real World (201KB, PDF).
Posts Tagged ‘energy-efficiency’
The Green Grid
Friday, April 17th, 2009In 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…)
Climate Savers Computing Initiative
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI), a non-profit organization founded in 2007 by a group of leading technology companies and the World Wildlife Fund, has a mission to reduce global CO2 emissions from computing by 54 million tons per year by 2010. This short video features Lorie Wigle, president of CSCI and General Manager of Intel’s EcoTechnology Program Office. In the video, she explains how CSCI seeks to promote computing energy efficiency thereby reducing computing CO2 emissions. CSCI uniquely brings together both computer manufacturers and computer users to encourage a market transformation around computer energy efficiency and power management. (more…)
No Ceiling: The Ultimate in Mission-Critical Scalability
Thursday, February 12th, 2009Intel and Microsoft have a shared vision of a dynamic data center environment. This solutions brief describes how the two companies are delivering new levels of scalability and reliability with servers based on the energy-efficient 45nm Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series plus Microsoft Windows Server 2008*, Microsoft SQL Server 2008*, and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008*. (more…)
Telework Benchmarking Study
Friday, January 30th, 2009Intel and others participated in this benchmarking report to identify best practices for large scale implementation in public and private sector organizations. Published in 2006 by TelCoa, the findings are still helpful in view of the increased emphasis on teleworking. (more…)
Earning an A with Intel® Architecture
Saturday, December 13th, 2008By virtualizing approximately two-thirds of its server architecture utilizing the quad-core performance and hardware-assisted virtualization capabilities of the Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 series and by adopting Intel® vPro™ Technology to enhance remote management of its 25,000 PCs, Clayton County Schools is able to save a considerable sum of money. They saved on servers (running 122 virtual machines on 22 servers), PC management costs (an estimated $676,000 on hardware and software ticket remediation), power consumption (cutting server power consumption by more than 90%) and space (eliminating 17 server cabinets plus a half-rack at each school). No wonder they earned an “A”. (more…)
First the Tick, Now the Tock: Next Generation Intel® Microarchitecture (Nehalem)
Monday, December 8th, 2008Since the introduction of the Intel® Core™ microarchitecture in 2006 and its 45nm enhancements, Intel microprocessors have delivered unprecedented capability to end users. In 2008, a new microarchitecture code named Nehalem was introduced that stands to further build on these microarchitectural marvels, rewriting the book on processor energy efficiency, performance, and scalability. (more…)
LSI’s Complex Integrated Circuit Design Process Drives Server Requirements
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008The highly technical design process for LSI Corporation’s integrated circuits takes nearly three million hours of electronic design automation runtime every 90 days. So you can understand why they have more than 2000 servers in data centers around the world and why they needed the best processing power and the most energy-efficient servers available. Read the details in this case study. (more…)
It Can be Easy Being Green
Sunday, October 19th, 2008With energy-optimized hardware, smart siting, attention to detail and some financial incentives, EasyStreet Online Services sees its plans for a new data center as a potential blueprint for future energy-efficient facilities. (more…)
The following articles are also part of this issue of the Intel Premier IT Magazine:
- Intel Premier IT Magazine Winter 2009 Edition: Defining the Future of IT
- Crossing the Chasm Between Humans and Machines
- Making the Most of IT
- The Value Influence
- Intel’s New Approach to Strategic Planning
- The Future Will be Simulated
- Mad Dogs and Oil Men
- Virtualization Test
- Out With the New, In With the Newest
- The Fast and The Virtual
- It’s a Business Decision: Managing PCs in Small Business
- It Can be Easy Being Green
- Mashups for the Masses
- Intelpedia Grows Up