Comments on: Data centers as energy exporters, not energy sinks! http://greenmonk.net/data-centers-as-energy-exporters-not-energy-sinks/ Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down Sun, 13 May 2012 08:54:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Ashley http://greenmonk.net/data-centers-as-energy-exporters-not-energy-sinks/#comment-7283 Ashley Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:48:33 +0000 http://greenmonk.net/?p=205#comment-7283 I am not sure with your idea of "Server Idea not to be cooled". It should be though you take some alternative ways to have your way for cooling. I am not sure with your idea of “Server Idea not to be cooled”. It should be though you take some alternative ways to have your way for cooling.

]]> By: Simon Rohrich http://greenmonk.net/data-centers-as-energy-exporters-not-energy-sinks/#comment-4245 Simon Rohrich Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:48:40 +0000 http://greenmonk.net/?p=205#comment-4245 I have to post a product positioning comment, but we are the most granular "hyper localised solution" using air 6KW (426W/sqft) or water 15KW (1071W/sqft). and those are our half racks. Our internal air loop is 100's of times a minute. You are the fist person to put their finger on it, thank you. I have been slugging it out in a garage for a long time. www.youtube.com/ellipticalmobile I have to post a product positioning comment, but we are the most granular
“hyper localised solution” using air 6KW (426W/sqft) or water 15KW (1071W/sqft). and those are our half racks. Our internal air loop is 100′s of times a minute. You are the fist person to put their finger on it, thank you. I have been slugging it out in a garage for a long time.
http://www.youtube.com/ellipticalmobile

]]> By: Tom Raftery http://greenmonk.net/data-centers-as-energy-exporters-not-energy-sinks/#comment-3571 Tom Raftery Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:17:27 +0000 http://greenmonk.net/?p=205#comment-3571 Great point Ludovic - mainframes were before my time (in IT!) so I know very little about them. The little I do know definitely makes today's servers seem hugely inefficient. Great point Ludovic – mainframes were before my time (in IT!) so I know very little about them. The little I do know definitely makes today’s servers seem hugely inefficient.

]]> By: Ludovic http://greenmonk.net/data-centers-as-energy-exporters-not-energy-sinks/#comment-3566 Ludovic Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:40:06 +0000 http://greenmonk.net/?p=205#comment-3566 Tom, You should ask a retrospective briefing on mainframes... Some buildings in the 70'ies were built to use the computer room as a big boiler room to heat all the buildings. According to that story I've heard, when they removed the mainframe, they had to install heating. The annoying thing is that we seem to be going backward with computing technology, installing fat clients everywhere, all served by inadequate transmissions systems (have you ever thought about all those KW wasted on TCP/IP stacks?) on one end and on the other end by web "farms" (a bunch of cheap LinTel servers, all working at utilisation rates 50 points lower than mainframes). Think of Google for instance: all requests are sent to multiple nodes for speed, there's huge spare capacity, etc, etc, etc... Very energy inefficient... Tom,

You should ask a retrospective briefing on mainframes… Some buildings in the 70′ies were built to use the computer room as a big boiler room to heat all the buildings. According to that story I’ve heard, when they removed the mainframe, they had to install heating.

The annoying thing is that we seem to be going backward with computing technology, installing fat clients everywhere, all served by inadequate transmissions systems (have you ever thought about all those KW wasted on TCP/IP stacks?) on one end and on the other end by web “farms” (a bunch of cheap LinTel servers, all working at utilisation rates 50 points lower than mainframes).

Think of Google for instance: all requests are sent to multiple nodes for speed, there’s huge spare capacity, etc, etc, etc… Very energy inefficient…

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