Volume: 2 Winter 2008

It's Actually Easier Being Green

Five Ways To Reduce the Footprint Of An HPC Application

The key to green performance is starting the hardware design in the right place, with ultra-low power processing elements, or cores. Even 10 watts per core is way too much to unlock the virtuous circle of benefits that unfolds when the power-perprocessor is less than a watt. SiCortex 64-bit processing cores operate at just 600 milliwatts apiece.

From www.xconomy.com — Peddle Power: MIT Cyclocross Team Promotes Alternative Energy, Low-Power Computing

As the red, white, and black uniforms of the MIT Cycling Team bobbed up and down before me early this afternoon, I couldn’t help thinking: human abacus. Okay, the logic might be twisted (most folks here at Xconomy figure that’s a given when I start writing), but there is method to my madness. The cyclists, 10 of them, had gathered in the lobby of MIT’s Stata Center speci•cally to do some human-powered computing....