The Green Grid: big iron goes green
By Ryan Block 
posted Feb 26th 2007 12:47PM
posted Feb 26th 2007 12:47PM
We can almost hear the guys at the nuke plant wincing as AMD's The Green Grid consortium took to the wires today to remind everyone of the impressive roster of companies they've enlisted (including borad members IBM, HP, Sun, Dell, and now also Microsoft and even archival Intel). The means to the end (of excessive server power draw, that is), The Green Grid is working to standardize benchmarking of performance per watt; they claim that once they can standardize performance metrics across processors and platforms, they can better hone their efforts to cutting down the the world's electric bill for servers n' related gear (which in 2005 had ballooned to $7.5 billion annually). We're still a bit hazy as to why agreement on performance metrics will affect the fact that chipmakers should be as focused on increasing power efficiency as they are performance, but at least one company's already taking some cogent steps. ColdWatt announced today they've got a line of seemingly no-compromise enterprise power supplies from 650 - 1200 watts that generate 45% less heat and consumer 30% less power. They may not be Green Grid members, but that should help out a bit in making your company's grid a little greener.Read- The Green Grid
Read - ColdWatt
I bet all the "borad" members were stoked to hear the AMD's "archival", Intel, join the ranks of the Grid.
I bet all the "borad" members were stoked to hear the AMD's "archival", Intel, join the ranks of the Grid.
Why did it double post? Damn you, you damn dirty apes!
If ColdWatt's psu can power my SLI system with all the hard drives and stuff (and if it's a modular psu), I'll gladly switch... also if it's affordable, and I'll stretch that a bit and classify it as under $200 since a lot of the stuff that's better for you or the earth and what not always seems to be more expensive ($8 for a jar of organic spaghetti sauce? No thanks, I'll stick with the $3 Ragu).
Not to be mean to the editor, but it makes me wonder how much of that article was "copied and pasted"
"We're still a bit hazy as to why agreement on performance metrics will affect the fact that chip makers should be as focused on increasing power efficiency as they are performance"
Isn't it obvious? The standardisation of performance per watt will make it clear cut over which components are "greener" thus increasing market forces on manufacturers to produce more efficient products. In other words it'll allow for greater competition which is very much necessary.
Hope you don't mind if I make a few humble correction suggestions:
Line 3: "board"
Line 4: "arch rival" (not archival)
Line (second to last): "consume"