Climate 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…)
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Climate Savers Computing Initiative
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009Geotrace Technologies: Oceangoing Multi-Core
Thursday, April 9th, 2009Geotrace Technologies realized there was enough demand to justify a full seismic processing and reservoir analysis center on board their specialized oceangoing vessel. They also figured they could save their customers valuable time by processing data as it was acquired instead of waiting until the ship was back in port. Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series met the limited power, air conditioning, and space requirements and provided faster results from offshore exploration. Read the details in this case study. (more…)
Solid-State Drives in the Enterprise: A Proof of Concept
Friday, April 3rd, 2009Intel IT conducted a proof of concept to determine the potential of solid-state drives (SSDs) to replace hard disk drives (HDDs) in the enterprise that included performance tests, measurement of power consumption, and total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) analysis. We found that using SSDs to replace data HDDs in disk arrays could increase I/O performance up to 8x for comparable TCO, and that using them as internal server OS disks reduced the time required for common support tasks such as installs and reboots by up to 73 percent. (more…)
UC Irvine: Reaching New Frontiers in Physics
Monday, March 30th, 2009Several hundred feet beneath the French-Swiss border lies the world’s largest, most powerful particle accelerator—the Large Hadron Collider. More than 2,200 researchers from around the globe work at the CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) laboratory on ATLAS, a large-scale particle physics experiment that studies the forces that have shaped the universe. To create the high-performance computing clusters that capture and analyze the massive amount of experimental data generated, researchers from the University of California, Irvine, and collaborating institutions selected Dell PowerEdge* servers equipped with Intel® Xeon® processors. Read their story. (more…)
Digging Multi-Core Performance
Monday, March 30th, 2009Introducing 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…)
State of Indiana: Reducing CO2 Emissions through Remote Services and Off-Hours Power Management
Thursday, February 26th, 2009The State of Indiana conducted a manageability assessment of PCs with Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology. Their decision to convert 20,000 desktop systems to PCs with Intel® vPro™ technology within four years was based on reduced operational expenses. An additional benefit was the reduced task time for some types of software diagnoses and repairs that can reduce nearly 860,000 pounds of CO2 emissions across four years. (more…)
Molson Coors Brews Up Increased Business Efficiency and Enhanced System Defense with Intel® vPro™ Technology
Monday, February 23rd, 2009Based upon the success of a proof-of-concept pilot using PCs with Intel® Core™2 Duo processors with Intel® Standard Manageability, which is built into PCs with Intel® vPro™ technology, Molson Coors Brewing Company made a strategic decision to convert 4,011 desktop and 3,840 notebook systems to PCs with Intel® management technology over the next three years. The company, one of the world’s largest brewers, concluded that the Intel management capabilities can deliver the greatest results in improved asset management and patch management. Furthermore, the firm can realize improved end-user productivity, power savings and expanded security with System Defense. Read the details in this case study. (more…)
Thomson Reuters: Powering the Law
Monday, February 16th, 2009Thomson Reuters has been providing research tools and information to legal professionals for over 130 years and their services are used by nearly 95 percent of major U.S. law firms to research legal issues. Other Thomson Reuters databases provide vital information for science, healthcare, business, and other fields. With customer usage of its online research services growing rapidly, Thomson Reuters faced the challenge of expanding its IT infrastructure to support an increased demand while also containing costs to maintain profitability. Read how they expect to achieve a 25:1 server consolidation ratio, reducing power requirements and freeing up space. (more…)
An Intel Retrofit Data Center
Friday, February 13th, 2009Old fabs don’t go away, they come back as….data centers? This video, the second in IT@Intel’s series of Intel’s world-class data centers, shows how Intel took a wafer fabrication facility (fab) with a 3-story design and retrofited it as a data center. You can see innovations in data center power delivery and air cooling, as well as one of the world’s fastest super computers. (more…)
Savvis: Making the Right Choice
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009An industry leader in delivering virtualized infrastructure and hosting services, Savvis has 29 data centers worldwide. They were looking to boost performance, increase scalability, and lower power consumption for a managed compute service offering that included a dedicated physical server for the customer’s use, connected to a virtualized pool of Savvis’s server resources to provide enterprise-class, high-availability failover. Read about how the Intel® Xeon® processor 7300 series became an essential part of their technology mix. (more…)