Network World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has announced a breakthrough in artificial intelligence hardware by developing a brain-inspired neuromorphic computing platform. The IISc team’s neuromorphic platform is designed to address some of the biggest challenges facing AI hardware today: energy consumption and computational inefficiency.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 19, 2024

Smart meters are transforming the way we manage energy consumption. How smart meters work Smart meters record detailed information about energy usage, including power quality and real-time data on voltage and current. Communication protocols and encryption A key security concern is the transmission of data over wireless networks.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Facebook’s data center energy use grew 33 percent in 2012, as the company installed tens of thousands of servers in its new company-built data centers. Facebook has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in its ultra-efficient facilities in both sites, which can slash the energy bill for its vast armada of servers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Content delivery and security specialist CloudFlare has been growing rapidly as it builds out a global network of data centers. The updates feature Intel SSD drives and SandyBridge Xeon 2630L processors, adjustments to caching, and a shift in network cards. In the end, we settled on the network cards from a company called Solarflare.

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Network World

AUGUST 26, 2024

A recommendation by a US Department of Energy (DoE) working group to create an AI test bed that will be mandated with finding ways to create data centers that are more energy efficient than they are today represents a good step forward, but much needs to be done, an analyst said today.

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Network World

JULY 30, 2024

AI appliance vendor NeuReality has announced its NR1-S solution significantly boosts the output of CPU- and GPU-based systems, reducing energy costs and energy efficiency, by taking over the work normally done by the CPU. The tests also measured energy consumption for audio processing per watt.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

KVM Hardware Overcomes Connectivity Challenges, but Introduces Others. When early versions of keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM) switches were introduced almost 30 years ago (initially supporting only keyboard and display functions), these hardware solutions simplified connections to managed infrastructure assets.

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Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In many ways, networking is a mature, stable industry, based on established technologies like Wi-Fi and Ethernet, which just celebrated its 50th anniversary. But networking vendors are constantly innovating to keep pace with skyrocketing volumes of traffic that need to move securely and reliably across complex multicloud environments.

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Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

These will allow the data centers to use warmer temperatures for cooling than previous generations of IT hardware, and thus mitigate the power use with high efficiency economizing chillers with elevated water temperatures, he wrote. Microsoft has improved its WUE by 80% since its first generation of datacenters, he said.

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The Verge

MARCH 29, 2022

Greenpeace and other environmental groups launched a new campaign today to push the Bitcoin network to slash its growing greenhouse gas emissions. The goal of the campaign, dubbed “Change the code, not the climate,” is to switch up the energy-hungry process of verifying transactions and mining new Bitcoins.

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GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2023

Amazon released this estimated coverage map Tuesday for its Sidewalk wireless network. Amazon says its Sidewalk community wireless network, formed by pooling internet bandwidth from users of Amazon devices, now covers 90% of the U.S. Amazon’s Sidewalk network testing device. population.

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TM Forum

JANUARY 27, 2022

As Orange Group’s CTO and Senior Vice President Orange Innovation Networks he is responsible for steering the evolution of the operator’s networks, including their software transformation. The software transformation … of the network is something that started some years ago on the IT side.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

All this has a tremendous impact on the digital value chain and the semiconductor hardware market that cannot be overlooked. Hardware innovations become imperative to sustain this revolution. So what does it take on the hardware side? The rise of AI means that the network is the computer, and connectivity is its lifeline.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Chipmaker ARM is using its headquarters campus to demonstrate how its low-power chip technology can slash energy costs for the automated office environments of the future. The company ARM will deploy network technology and more than 600 connected sensors across its UK campus in Cambridge, all controlled by smart ARM-based chips.

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Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

AI, security, energy-efficient computing , robotics, and virtual computing interactions are among the research firm’s top 10 strategic technology trends, which were unveiled at Gartner’s annual IT Symposium/XPO in Orlando. Energy-efficient computing Energy-efficient computing will continue to be a hot topic, according to Gartner.

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Network World

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Today’s data centers have a multitude of well-known issues: They gobble up massive amounts of energy and space, are costly, and struggle to meet the intense resource demands of next-gen artificial intelligence (AI). This enables “orders of magnitude lower marginal energy costs,” the company wrote.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

The company announced Virtual Gateway, a cross-platform keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) software development kit (SDK) that aides solution providers offer enhanced capabilities for diagnosing and troubleshooting datacenter hardware. It’s a virtual solution rather than a hardware approach to managing and troubleshooting. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

So the number of companies that really understand the network topology, the data center construction, the server requirements to build this public cloud infrastructure is very, very small.” Networking. Energy Efficiency Guide. Amazon is a little bit smaller. You get Yahoo! Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Chia, the recently introduced "green" blockchain aimed at reducing energy usage and credited with a drastic increase in storage costs, is once again making storage headlines for the wrong reasons. Following a continued drop in value, the coin's miners have begun leaving the network and liquidating their hardware assets to.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

. “The traditional method for specifying power density using a single figure such as watts per square meter (or foot) is an unfortunate practice that often leads to confusion as well as a waste of energy and money.” Deconstructing SoftLayer’s Three-Tiered Network – At the InnerLayer blog, they’re talking networking.

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

Trillium is the sixth iteration of Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) and is 67% more energy efficient and nearly five times as fast as its predecessor, TPU v5, according to the company. Open source support Trillium will support open source libraries, such as JAX , PyTorch/ XLA , and Keras 3 , Vahdat said.

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Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Compounding the challenge, IT cannot easily predict how business changes will affect their networks, and these changes rarely take place steadily over time, but in short bursts of dramatic growth or contraction. This unpredictability makes traditional network infrastructure planning extremely difficult.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 28, 2013

7 Software Defined Networking Considerations – Moving to software defined networking is not a matter of “when” but “how,” and there are seven main factors IT administrators should consider when determining whether SDN is right for their network, says Patrick Hubbard of SolarWinds. Networking.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The data center will be constructed on the former Britishvolt site at Northumberland Energy Park, a region previously earmarked for an electric vehicle battery facility. Ensuring a stable energy supply will be critical, as any disruptions could severely impact operations. “AI

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Network World

JULY 24, 2024

“Here in the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, we build leadership-class supercomputers for scientific applications,” said Matt Sieger, project director for Discovery, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at ORNL, which is managed and operated by UT-Battelle on behalf of the US Department of Energy.

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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2024

In the analyst call , Huang also explored his view of the future of enterprise computing, and the massive degree to which AI is going to change the nature of hardware and computing operations. “We “In the end, this is not a long-term problem (as much as) one of many short-term issues that will be resolved.”

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Whether it is redundant hardware or a private hot-site, keeping an environment up and running 99.99% (insert more 9’s here) of the time is a tough job. We’re reducing the amount of hardware that we need, and increasing agility by using the cloud to replicate business processes. Networking. Uptime and resiliency. White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Google says the majority of its capital investments are for IT infrastructure, including data enters, servers, and networking equipment. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities. Networking.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2023

For the enterprise, planning edge strategies and reaping their rewards is often a complex and challenging process, with myriad applications to deploy, a proliferation of hardware devices to manage, multiple data types and sources to integrate, and significant security risks to avoid. To learn more, visit us here.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

During a media event this week Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group at Intel, set the stage for Intel’s approach to re-architect the data center and journey through periods of transformation that are changing from network-centric to human-centric models. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

The description of the Oregon outage suggests a hardware failure for a storage unit. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities. Networking. Energy Efficiency Guide. Comments (required).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

A look inside the network operating center for Akamai Technologies, which operates more than 127,000 servers around the globe. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities. Networking. White Papers.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 10, 2013

At the C2SV Technology Conference and Music Festival this year, John McAfee (formerly of McAfee Antivirus) talked about a new device that would decentralize networking and free consumers from the watchful eyes of Governments and criminals alike. It would make sense to use this tactic to expand the reach of the D-Central network though.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Equinix has become the latest provider to test drive the use of fuel cells, installing a 100-kilowatt system to generate energy for its FR4 data center in Frankfurt, Germany, the company said. N2telligence is based in Wismar, Germany and specializes in fire protection systems for sustainable energy management. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

But the LoPoCo team is being cagey about exactly how it is providing those energy savings. LoPoCo says it is using Intel Xeon “brawny core” chips and standard form factors, and gaining energy savings through its hardware design. ”It took a huge pile of rejected hardware to get to this point. Networking.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Intelligent assistants are already changing how we search, analyze information, and do everything from creating code to securing networks and writing articles. Sajjad Moazeni of the University of Washington calculates that training an LLM with 175 billion+ parameters takes a year’s worth of energy for 1,000 US households. Not at all.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

DreamWorks animators use HP Z800 and Z820 workstations with Intel Xeon E5 processors, a HP FlexNetwork architecture, and HP networking to simplify collaboration among artists. Networking. Energy Efficiency Guide. 75 million render hours. Turbo-Charging Digital Render Farms. Comments (required). DataCenterKnowledge. White Papers.

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