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Selecting an Industry-Standard Metric for Data Center Efficiency

whitepaper This paper explains some of the metrics that have been used to describe the efficiency of data center physical infrastructure and suggests which metric is the most effective. The development of standards for the measurement and specification of...

Tags: data center

[16 May 2008]

A Power Benchmarking Study on the IBM System z9: Applying Energy Efficiency Metrics to Performance

whitepaper As the cost of power grows significantly, the application of energy efficiency to systems performance becomes a metric that can not be ignored. Over the past few years energy efficiency in the data center has become one of the top concerns for IT...

Tags: mainframes

[15 May 2008]

IBM tools to curb data centres' power-hungry appetite?

News William Zeitler, head of IBM's systems and technology group, told Reuters: "Energy efficiency has become a critical business metric, like product reliability and customer satisfaction. IBM has launched tools to reduce computer energy consumption as...

Tags: data centres, ibm, green

[01 May 2008]

Green Grid Metrics: Describing Datacenter Power Efficiency

whitepaper In the long term, The Green Grid is proposing the Datacenter Performance Efficiency (DCPE) metric and a refined version of the PUE metric be adopted for all major power-consuming subsystems in the datacenter.

Tags: data center

[11 Apr 2008]

Improving Consumers' Contactless Payment Experience

whitepaper The sensitivity of the contactless card is a more important metric than the computational speed, but the implementation of both translates into a better, overall user experience. So a balance between speed and energy efficiency (a.k.a.sensitivity...

Tags: transaction processing

[27 Mar 2008]

Lenovo's Latest ThinkCentre Desktop Brings Energy Efficiency to the Mainstream

whitepaper Energy efficiency is the new metric by which businesses are measuring IT operations. Increasingly, energy efficiency is also becoming a factor by which customers and even government regulators are evaluating businesses.

Tags: desktop systems - pcs

[14 Feb 2008]

Meihua Group Consolidates on a Single Management Platform to Gain Integrated View of Business

whitepaper Meihua Group is one of the world's largest manufacturers of monosodium glutamate (MSG), producing approximately 400,000 metric tons a year. The company improved efficiency by standardizing on a common platform, enabling management to obtain real...

Tags: supply chain management

[08 Feb 2008]

Virtualisation cuts carbon and servers

Comment That also happens to be a useful metric for those trying to quantify energy savings. A report by the US Environmental Protection Agency in August suggested that simply by continuing current rates of server consolidation in the data centre, the US...

Tags: green, data centres, servers, virtualisation

[21 Dec 2007]

Virtualisation - a CIO's best friend?

News But in the line with AMD's energy efficiency message, the key metric for Barcelona is 'performance per watt'. Businesses are dealing with more data, they're trying to get data out to more places in the organisation and to do that they need high...

Tags: servers, energy, chips, virtualisation

[14 Sep 2007]

Energy-Balanced Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Energy Welfare Metric

whitepaper Using this metric, the paper design the Maximum Energy Welfare Routing (MaxEW) algorithm, this achieves simultaneous energy efficiency and energy balance of sensor networks. This paper introduces a new metric, called Energy-Welfare, which considers...

Tags: network security, sensor, events, balance

[31 Aug 2007]

Distributed Energy-Adaptive Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks

whitepaper This paper introduces a new metric, Energy Cost, devised to consider a balance of sensors' remaining energies, as well as energy efficiency. Therefore, ideally, routing algorithms should consider not only energy efficiency, but also the amount of...

Tags: network security, sensor, energy, algorithms

[31 Aug 2007]

Efficiency Centric Communication Model for Wireless Sensor Networks

whitepaper This new model indicates a better path metric compared to previous path metrics, and the paper validates this by establishing a routing infrastructure based on this metric, which indeed achieves a higher energy efficiency compared to other state...

Tags: monitoring systems, efficiency, radio, energy

[25 Aug 2007]

Energy-Balanced Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Energy Welfare Metric

whitepaper Using this metric, the paper design the Maximum Energy Welfare Routing (MaxEW) algorithm, this achieves simultaneous energy efficiency and energy balance of sensor networks. This paper introduces a new metric, called Energy-Welfare, which considers...

Tags: sensor, energy, events, balance

[10 Aug 2007]

Distributed Energy-Adaptive Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks

whitepaper This paper introduces a new metric, Energy Cost, devised to consider a balance of sensors' remaining energies, as well as energy efficiency. Therefore, ideally, routing algorithms should consider not only energy efficiency, but also the amount of...

Tags: sensor, algorithms, energy, efficiency

[10 Aug 2007]

Coarse Frame and Carrier Synchronization of OFDM Systems: A New Metric & Comparison

whitepaper By exploiting the repetitive structure of a training symbol, a robust frame synchronizer is obtained and shown to resume to finding the peak of a certain correlation metric that is obtained by invoking maximum likelihood principles.

Tags: wireless lan, frequency, carrier, frame

[13 Apr 2007]

Turbo-Coded ARQ Schemes for DS-CDMA Data Networks Over Fading and Shadowing Channels: Throughput, Delay, and Energy Efficiency

whitepaper The throughput, delay, and energy efficiency performance of standard ARQ, metric combining, and RCPT (Rate Compatible Punctured Turbo) coded ARQ schemes are compared via simulations. The RCPT/ARQ schemes are shown to outperform the other two...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, throughput, schemes, efficiency

[10 Nov 2006]

Intel unveils 'lean, mean, AMD-busting' Xeon

News But Intel and AMD are also focusing on the somewhat fuzzy performance-per-watt metric, as they jostle to become known as the least electricity-hungry vendor. They have engaged in a battle of PowerPoint slides claiming superior energy efficiency but...

Tags: xeon, intel

[27 Jun 2006]

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Improved Efficiency Using Virtual Server 2005 (Level 300)

whitepaper Microsoft had a very positive experience with Virtual Server 2005, which met or exceeded expectations across the entire SLA, metric by metric. Microsoft information technology's (IT) Virtual Server Utility offers Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 to...

Tags: virtual, virtual server, service level agreement, centralized

[13 Sep 2005]

Near-Neighbor Query Performance in Search Trees

whitepaper We find that while the new trees do improve performance, the reason for their improvement comes mostly from a new Penalty metric, and not from a variety of other details in their implementation. In large databases, near-neighbor searches must be...

Tags: search strategies, search, tree, trees

[24 Feb 2004]

The Bloor Perspective: Work work work, OS attacks and the secret of Google's success

Comment Well, on this metric British workers lead the way in Europe. For all of the many issues that face the German economy at the moment, Germany has been held to be a model of industrial effectiveness and efficiency for the majority of the last 20 years.

[28 Aug 2001]

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