Green500 News
The Green500 List
Jun 30, 2010 by Virginia Tech
With the latest release of The Green500 List, accelerator-based supercomputers now occupy the top eight slots of the Green500, where the fuel efficiency (or energy efficiency) of supercomputers is defined as millions of floating-point operations per second (MFLOPS) divided by watts (W) or MFLOPS/W. Accelerators refer to the use of dedicated hardware to perform computations faster than a traditional processor, also known as a central processing unit (CPU).
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Green HPC Podcast Episode 1
May 04, 2010 by insiderHPC
In the inaugural episode of the Green HPC podcast series we will examine the issues that datacenter managers and system designers are facing with high performance computing systems of all sizes today. Even if you aren’t “green at heart,” there are very practical and compelling reasons why a growing awareness of energy use in your datacenter — how much, where it goes, and what it costs you — is critical to your success.
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SU opens new Green Data Center
Dec 02, 2009 by Newport Television LL
The orange of Syracuse University and blue of IBM, have teamed up to make green. Today, Syracuse University opened up a brand new environmentally friendly computer center unlike anything else in the world -- and one that may make it less expensive to operate your computer at home.
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Latest Green500 List Shows supercomputers continuing to improve 'fuel efficiency'
Nov 30, 2009 by Steven Mackay
The sixth edition of the Green500 List shows a continuing improvement in energy efficiency among the world's fastest supercomputers. Three IBM QPACE (quantum chromodynamics parallel computing on the Cell) top the latest Green500 list, all tying for first place and all are located in Germany: Jülich Research Center, University of Regensburg, and University of Wuppertal.
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Lean, Green Machines
Nov 25, 2009 by Don Monroe
On November 19, three matching German supercomputers easily won the latest Green500 prize, which rewards not just raw computing power but energy efficiency. The machines, at the Research Center of Jülich and the universities of Regensburg and Wuppertal, were designed for high-energy-physics calculations as part of the "QPACE" project.
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SC09 Cluster Challenge: Purdue, ITaP student supercomputing team wins 'green' computing award
Nov 23, 2009 by Greg Kline
Purdue University's student Cluster Challenge team at the SC09 supercomputing conference in Portland, Ore., was fast and green. The Purdue team in the competition, where teams of undergraduates from around the country pushed their student-run supercomputers to the maximum over three days, won the award for getting the most done on the least amount of power, organizers announced Thursday (Nov. 19). Purdue also won the power consumption award last year.
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The Green500 BOF at SC|09
Nov 12, 2009 by The Green500
On Thursday, November 19, the Green500 will host a Birds-Of-a-Feather session at SC09 to bring together environmentally responsible supercomputing stakeholders. The session will be hosted by Wu-chun Feng and Kirk Cameron of Virginia Tech in room A107 at 12:15pm. The hour-long session will cover where the Green500 is and where it going. We invite all those interested in green supercomputing to join.
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The Green500 is Getting a Refresh
Nov 05, 2009 by The Green500
Since its 2007 debut, the Green500 has ranked only the energy efficiency of the world's 500 fastest performing supercomputers. Now, the Green500 is expanding the definition of a supercomputer to include a wider spectrum of the high-end computing world with the 'Little Green500' list and opening its doors to innovation with two new exploratory lists: the 'Open Green500' and 'HPCC Green500'.
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President Obama Honors IBM's Blue Gene Supercomputer With National Medal Of Technology And Innovation
Sep 18, 2009 by IBM
President Obama recognized IBM (NYSE: IBM) and its Blue Gene family of supercomputers with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the country's most prestigious award given to leading innovators for technological achievement...
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The Evolution of the Green500 List: A Bird-of-A-Feather Session at SC|08
Nov 16, 2008 by The Green500
On Wednesday, November 19, at SC|08, the founders of the Green500 from Virginia Tech will host a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session, centered around evolving the list to better serve the high-performance computing community. Being "green" has undergone a true revolution -- from being largely scoffed at in the early 2000s to being so important that being "green" has become a necessity rather than a luxury.
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Supermicro Becomes Title Sponsor for the Green500
Nov 14, 2008 by The Green500
The Green500 List announced today that Supermicro will become the title sponsor for the November 2008 and June 2009 lists of the Green500.
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The 3rd Edition of the Green500
Jun 30, 2008 by The Green500
As a complement to the TOP500, the unveiling of the Green500 ushered in a new era where supercomputers can be compared by performance-per-watt. On June 30, 2008, the latest edition of the Green500 was announced. This 3rd edition of the Green500 contains a plethora of interesting takeaways.
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Open Letter to HPC Stakeholders
Feb 05, 2008 by Wu-chun Feng and Kirk W. Cameron
We were extremely pleased with the outcome of the inaugural Green500 list.
In our opinion, the Green500 had the desired effect of elevating the discussion
of energy efficiency in the high-performance computing (HPC) community.
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