Archive for November, 2011

Virginia Tree Farmers donate Christmas trees to military families

Trees for Troops is trying to donate 100,000 trees to military members and their families Virginia is one of the top 10 Christmas tree producing states; it’s an industry that’s valued at nearly $50 million, according to the Virginia Christmas Tree Growers Association . But for tree growers across the Commonwealth, it’s not all about the green. It’s also about the red, white and blue.

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Turn on the server, it’s cold inside: the other use for computer power

Researchers explore how computer servers could be placed inside homes and used as a source of heat.

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Supermicro(R) Exhibits Its SuperWorkstation Product Line at Autodesk University

LAS VEGAS, NV– - Super Micro Computer, Inc. , a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology innovation and green computing, is premiering its lineup of SuperWorkstation solutions …

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Supercomputers Turn Green in Race to Exascale Mountaintop

The world’s supercomputers are getting greener. But they better keep it up if they’re going to break the vaunted exascale barrier any time soon. The latest ranking of the most efficient supercomputers on earth — the biannual Green500 — shows that the greenest supercomputers are getting greener at an increasingly faster rate, thanks in part to the rise of graphics processors in these massive …

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Last beam laid at Holyoke computing ctr

Governor Deval Patrick joined academic leaders and state and local leaders to celebrate the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center “topping off” ceremony in Holyoke Tuesday.

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