This new return on investment analytics tool provides a preliminary, high-level analysis of your current systems environment costs based on your projected growth needs and server replacement cycles over the next five years. The results are contrasted to a consolidated Intel-based IBM BladeCenter* or System x* solution with estimated savings potential. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘energy’
IBM Systems Evaluation Tool for Intel
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Optimizing the Performance of IBM System x and BladeCenter Servers
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Intel® Xeon® processors 5500 series are next-generation quad-core processors targeted at the two-socket server space and will be the common building block across a number of IBM platforms according to this white paper from IBM. This brief details how memory configuration can affect the performance of these systems. (more…)
Productive High Performance Computing for Upstream Petroleum with the IBM Cluster Solution
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Driven by an increasing dependence on sophisticated multidimensional seismic imaging and very accurate multi-component, multi-scale, reservoir models to further increase the probability of finding and recovering oil, there is a continuing investment to develop new algorithms and enhance applications for parallel computing environments. This brief from the Cabot Partners Group proposes that these investments will be protected as newer and more powerful cluster systems become available and that the payoff will far outweigh the investment as energy costs continue to escalate. (more…)
Energy-Efficient Computing
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009This keynote presentation examines the performance and power advantages of the Nehalem architecture and looks at what it will take to get to exascale performance.
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Reduce Energy Usage while Increasing Business Productivity in the Data Center
Monday, May 11th, 2009Drawing from his book The Green and Virtual Data Center, StorageIO Group Founder and Senior Analyst Greg Schulz talks about the most significant issues facing IT in terms of “greening” the data center. He explains the energy savings mode of the new Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series as well as illustrating the differences between energy efficiency and energy avoidance in the new processor.
The Changing Dynamic of the Data Center
Monday, May 11th, 2009Greg Schulz, Founder and Senior Analyst with StorageIO Group, discusses the new data center architecture and how the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series fits into that architecture offering efficiencies in terms of energy efficiency and in terms of getting more work done in a shorter period of time with a smaller footprint.
Arizona Public Service: Powerful Savings at the Power Company
Friday, April 24th, 2009Arizona Public Service (APS) is continually looking for new technologies that can contribute to the bottom line and to energy sustainability. The company’s IT group is no exception and is working to reduce power use and costs both in the data center and at the desktop. To reduce power usage, the IT team decided to acquire new desktops and laptops with energy-saving Intel® processor technology as part of the company’s hardware refresh program. In the data center, the APS IT team decided to save energy by consolidating its servers onto fewer, more powerful machines. Read about their ROI and the other ways APS IT measures success. (more…)
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…)
Intel Solid State Drives
Monday, April 13th, 2009Intel IT explains the benefits we’ve seen from using Intel Solid State Drives (SSD) in our environment, including gains in productivity and reliability, and savings in energy costs. We also show a demo comparison between a laptop with a SSD and a conventional hard drive. (more…)