Intel Corporation has unveiled its newest Intel® Atom™ processor-based platform. The technology package provides significantly lower power consumption and prepares the company to target a range of computing devices, including high-end smartphones, tablets and other mobile handheld products. The platform has been repartitioned to include the Intel Atom processor Z6xx, which … [Read more...]
Chicago Data Center Project Moves Ahead
Plans for a 315,000 square-foot data center facility on Chicago’s Near South Side are moving forward, with city approval clearing the way for design and construction. The development team has set a goal of fall 2010 to begin construction, with a potential completion date of late 2011. The six-story building will be 315,000 square feet, with 143,000 square feet of raised floor … [Read more...]
Researchers Cool Down Supercomputers with Warm Water
A team of IBM researchers in Switzerland is experimenting with a micro network of copper tubes that run through smaller, clustered computer servers and whisk away heat with the help of warm water. Liquid cooling, even with warm water, is 4,000 times more effective than air cooling at removing heat, they say. Researchers from IBM and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in … [Read more...]
Tiny Technology Making a Big Splash
Thermacore, Inc., a provider of heat pipe technology and other thermal management solutions, announced that Thermacore Europe is making progress as lead partner of an 8.3 million euro ($11.4M) European research project, NanoHex. The team is tasked with developing a next-generation liquid coolant that incorporates purpose engineered nano-particles for more efficient … [Read more...]
Greenpeace Issues Warning about Data Center Power
Greenpeace is calling on technology giants like Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook to power their data centers with renewable energy sources. Their electricity often comes from utility companies that generate power from burning coal, says the group. Greenpeace estimates that data centres will use 1,963 billion kilowatt hours of electricity by 2020. That is more than the power … [Read more...]