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RSS heatPhotos: Take a tour of Microsoft's self-contained datacentre
Photo Like all computers, servers generate heat, so cooling and energy conservation are key considerations. At its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles last week, Microsoft gave attendees a close-up look at a... [24 Nov 2009]
Innovative Solutions to Overcome the Challenges of Heat Management in the Data Center
White Paper According to the EPA's Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency, if current trends continue, the demand for power by data centers will require an additional 10 power plants on the North American power grid by 2011. [11 Nov 2009]
Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News The hours spent freezing in bed marked a sharp contrast to her waking hours at Bletchley, where she battled the overpowering heat given off by the four Colossus codebreaking machines she worked on, monitoring the... [05 Nov 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo The system circulates cold water through the door to lower the temperature of heat coming from the servers' fans. On the far right you can see the back door heat exchanger designed for its high end... [02 Oct 2009]
Reducing Power Consumption: Improving the Heat and Power Efficiency of Switching and Telephony Equipment
White Paper This paper looks at technologies available today that achieve these important environmental and business goals by minimizing heat and power dissipation in Ethernet-based switching and telephony equipment. [02 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Symbian
Cheat Sheet However, it was the swathe of software makers that entered the market a couple of years ago that really turned up the heat on Symbian by making its OS look increasingly dated and clunky - Apple's iPhone OS, which arrived... [01 Oct 2009]
Calculating Total Cooling Requirements for Data Centers
White Paper All electrical equipment produces heat, which must be removed to prevent the equipment temperature from rising to an unacceptable level. Sizing a cooling system requires an understanding of the amount of... [01 Oct 2009]
Energy Efficient Cooling for Data Centers: A Close-Coupled Row Solution
White Paper The trend of increasing heat densities in data centers has held consistent with advances in computing technology for many years. As power density increased, it became evident that the degree of difficulty in cooling... [01 Oct 2009]
Improving Rack Cooling Performance Using Airflow Management Blanking Panels
White Paper Unused vertical space in open frame racks and rack enclosures creates an unrestricted recycling of hot air that causes equipment to heat up unnecessarily. The use of airflow management blanking panels can reduce this... [01 Oct 2009]
Impact of High Density Hot Aisles on IT Personnel Work Conditions
White Paper In this paper, it is determined that the additional heat stress imposed by such high density IT environments is of minimal concern. The use of modern enclosed hot aisles to address increasing power densities in the data... [01 Oct 2009]
Photos: Inside Big Blue's big green datacentre
Photo A closer look at the rear-door heat exchanger put on the back of this rack of servers. On the far right, you can see one of those: a back door heat exchanger designed for its high-end iDataplex server... [22 Sep 2009]
Taking the Heat Off Transactions: Dynamic Selection of Pessimistic Concurrency Control
White Paper This paper investigates feedback-directed dynamic selection between different implementations of atomic blocks. The paper initially executes atomic blocks using STM with optimistic concurrency control. [16 Sep 2009]
Photos: WWII codebreakers return to Bletchley Park
Photo Others talked about how they had to wear stilettos to work on these tall machines or told how they had to strip off in the summer because these machines generated such a lot of heat. During the Second World War these... [07 Sep 2009]
Apple's Snow Leopard: Embracing the brave new multicore world
News Worse, the chips required extraordinary amounts of power and produced corresponding amounts of hard-to-handle waste heat. That's because Mac OS X 10.6 begins a long-term attempt by Apple to get ahead by cracking a... [01 Sep 2009]
12 Essential BI Features That Deliver Immediate Value to Your Applications
White Paper In addition to typical reporting capabilities, LogiXML's powerful 81 features like dashboards and scorecards, Interactive analysis, structured search, heat maps, Ad Hoc reporting. Business Intelligence (BI), reporting... [01 Sep 2009]
