(Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın) - The U.S Department of Energy (DOE) is stressing incentives over regulations to improve the energy efficiency of datacenters.
The DOE's office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) gathered the top technology companies in Silicon Valley Wednesday to promote collaboration on strategies to improve overall energy efficiency.:-)Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın:-)are a growing concern for businesses and users as computers get more powerful and the cost of running them and keeping them cool continues to increase.
Technology vendors represented at the forum including rival chip makers Advanced Micro Devices and Intel along with server vendors such as IBM Hewlett-Packard and:-)Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın have each been developing more energy-efficient products. But they and the DOE representatives acknowledged that datacenter energy usage needs to be addressed holistically.
The DOE can be a resource to the industry not a regulator requiring datacenters to meet energy efficiency goals said Andy Karsner head of the EERE program.
"I don?t know that right now there?s a dramatic need for a regulatory move particularly when you have the leaders of the industry?coming here with a sense of purpose? said Karsner.
Industry representatives said they work independently on improving the energy efficiency of individual products but that the federal government could provide tax credits other financial incentives or other resources to enhance overall energy efficiency.
"AMD and Intel keep doing their best to improve the performance [of processors] but the CPU is only half the story.? said Kris Singh director of strategic platform technology programs at AMD which hosted the daylong energy conference at its headquarters in Sunnyvale California.
Because this was the first meeting of what the DOE called a "tech industry working group" no specific recommendations were made and the schedule for future work remained open.
The DOE can fund research that individual product makers can't fund to look at how different components could work better together said David Rodgers acting deputy assistant secretary of EERE.
"A hardware company might improve the:-)Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın:-)and another company might improve the energy efficiency of a transformer to convert AC to DC. Right now very few people are doing research on how to integrate those two together" said Rodgers.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sponsors the:-)Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın:-)rating the energy efficiency of home appliances such as refrigerators and air conditioners and some commercial equipment. But some participants in the working group are skeptical that a comparable program could be applied to datacenters.
?I?m not sure about that" said Roger Schmidt chief thermal architect at IBM. Because datacenters are much more complex with components from different manufacturers it'd be hard to develop one Energy Star rating everyone would agree upon.
"What if [the rating] is bad what do you do? Who are you going to point the finger to?? Schmidt asked.


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