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Data Center Energy Efficiency a Hot Topic

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

“Modern supercomputers can no longer focus only on raw performance,” said David Turek, vice president of deep computing at IBM. “To be commercially viable these systems most also be energy efficient. IBM has a rich history of innovation that has significantly increased energy efficiency of our systems at all levels of the system that are designed to simultaneously reduce data center costs and energy use.”

Read full article IBM tops Green500 supercomputer list.

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Influent Air Jets Demonstrate Substantial Energy Savings for Servers

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Extending the Horizon of Air Cooling

Richmond, Virginia, June 11, 2009 – Influent Corp. announces the release of a white paper validating a 25% reduction in total server energy consumption using pulsed air jets. For example, a 25% reduction for a given data center with 10,000 server racks would equate to $64.5MM in power savings over the 5 year life of a server.

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