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IBM supercomputers rated most energy efficient
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| Whilst the list of vendors supplying supercomputing iron is fairly limited
| (IBM, Cray, SGI, HP, et al) the latest Supercomputing Green 500 List has
| found that the top 20 most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world are
| built on IBM high-performance computing technology. Indeed, Big Blue holds 39
| of the top 50 positions on the list.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/article/268632/ibm_supercomputers_rated_most_energy_efficient?fp=16&fpid=1
Google claims MapReduce sets data-sorting record
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| Google used 1,000 servers running MapReduce in parallel to sort the data,
| versus 910 for Yahoo, according to Czajowksi.
|
| Google also tested MapReduce's ability to sort 1 petabyte (PB), or 1,000 TB,
| of data. That is equivalent to 12 times the amount of archived Web data in
| the US Library of Congress as of May 2008, according to Google.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/article/268596/google_claims_mapreduce_sets_data-sorting_record?fp=16&fpid=1
Recent:
Green PC Needs Less Juice Than a Light Bulb
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| Meanwhile in the United States, Tangent has recently released the Tangent
| Evergreen 17 all in one computer, which apparently consumes only 24 watts, 72
| percent less the required power consumption by Energy Star 4.0. This machine
| runs on either the Via Eden 1.0 GHz fan-less processor or the ViaC7 1.50 GHz
| processor with a low-noise fan.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/150497/green_pc_needs_less_juice_than_a_light_bulb.html
Greens urge end to software patents
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| Ms Turei, who called for greater use of open source and locally developed
| software, says excluding software from patents would ensure others could
| develop ideas. Software would still be protected against piracy by copyright
| law.
|
| The party has promised to investigate "the setup of free municipally owned
| wireless networks". Ms Turei says the cost needs to be researched, but the
| Government would "almost certainly" need to supply funding.
|
| Ms Turei says wider adoption of open source software would reduce costs and
| lead to investment in local IT businesses, which tend to lose out to dominant
| software companies such as Microsoft.
|
| "Monopolies have been allowed to form, stifling competition, consumer choice,
| and indigenous growth of the software industry in Aotearoa/New Zealand."
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4668175a28.html
Making IT work for people - new Green policy
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| The Green Party released its Information Technology (IT) Policy today ahead
| of a lecture tonight by free software legend Richard Stallman, jointly hosted
| by Otago University's Campus Greens branch and the computer science
| department.
|
| "IT must work for people not the profits of the few. People on both sides of
| the digital divide should benefit from information technology - IT should not
| create new mechanisms of inequality. And of course our policy assists people
| to utilise IT to reduce their impact on the planet," Greens IT Spokesperson
| Metiria Turei says.
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00283.htm
Related:
Apple has toxic core: Greenpeace
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| Despite Apple's launch of the eco-friendly iPhone last week,
| Greenpeace is demanding an environmental revolution that will
| shake the company to its core.
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/01/16/greenpeace_slams_apple/
Vista poses environmental dangers
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| Microsoft Vista could have serious environmental implications,
| experts have warned.
|
| The latest version of Windows uses encryption methods that are
| incompatible with some older PCs. It also features high-end
| graphics capabilities that can only run on newer hardware.
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http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2174400/vista-poses-environmental
Greenpeace: Vista could trigger a deluge of electronic waste
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| Beau Baconguis of the Southeast Asia section of the environmental
| protection organization Greenpeace has warned that the introduction
| by Microsoft of its new operating system Windows Vista might as a
| side effect trigger a deluge of electronic waste (E-waste). "With
| Vista, Microsoft could effectively hasten the obsolesence of half
| the world's PCs, especially in the absence of fully-functioning
| global take back systems for PCs," Ms. Baconguis declared.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/84816/from/rss09
Vista gets slated - by the Greens
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| The Green Party has slammed Microsoft and it's forthcoming operating
| system, Windows Vista, in a withering attack on the company's "monopoly".
|
| Microsoft not only takes criticism for allegedly environmentally
| unfriendly policies, but for attacking civil liberties.
|
| The party claims that "Vista gives Microsoft the ability to lock
| you out of your computer," and that "Microsoft are determined not
| to play fair" in the video content market.
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http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/news.php?id=107813
Use GNU/Linux and help save the planet
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| Are Windows users, not by choice, the worst polluters of the planet
| relative to GNU/Linux? Well, not intentionally but the lifecycle of
| a machine running Windows must be shorter than that of a
| conscientious Linux user who can prevent that old 400MHZ Celeron PC
| with 128MBs of memory gathering dust in the corner from heading for
| the scrapheap.
|
| [...]
|
| The Chinese have a saying: the journey of a thousand miles begins
| with the first step. Reusing a puffing and wheezing old computer
| by installing a minimal GNU/Linux distro and staving off the day
| when it trudges forlornly to the scrapheap is at least a baby step
| in the right direction.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/use_gnu_linux_and_help_save_the_planet
Computers in schools are an environmental time-bomb
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| Schools are using computers as room
| heaters which then need to be cooled using expensive air conditioning
| and Modern thin-client networks could reverse this trend and are
| available from the Open Source community and vendors of proprietary
| software today.
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http://opensourceblog.itproportal.com/?p=213
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