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Simon Wardley at the it@cork Green IT Conference

by Tom Raftery on February 4, 2009 · 0 comments

in video

Simon Wardley is a geneticist with a love of mathematics and a fascination in economics. Simon has always found himself dealing with complex systems, whether it’s in the behavioural patterns of ladybirds to modelling environmental risks of chemical pollution to developing novel computer systems to managing companies.
In this talk at the it@cork Green IT conference, [...]

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How Green is Cloud Computing?

by Tom Raftery on December 17, 2008 · 8 comments

in IT

This is a graph of traffic to the website of the Australian Open tennis championship. As you can see, the traffic spikes in January every year and then all but disappears for the other 11 months of the year. It is also important to note that the height of the traffic spike is increasing year [...]

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What if electricity were like the Internet?

by Tom Raftery on June 4, 2008 · 13 comments

in energy demand management, smart grid

Photo Credit Bob Fornal
So, Nick Carr writes regularly about cloud computing and how the Internet is heading more and more towards the same model as the utilities. And he’s right. And this is a good thing.
Now let’s turn that on its head.
When will the utilities start to become more like the Internet? Specifically, when will [...]

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