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Intel Shows Data Centers Can Get By (Mostly) With Little AC 287

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 18, 2008 @05:03PM from the googly-attrition dept.

Ted Samson IW writes "InfoWorld reports on an experiment in air economization, aka 'free cooling,' conducted by Intel. For 10 months, the chipmaker had 500 production servers, working at 90 percent utilization, cooled almost exclusively by outside air at a facility in New Mexico. Only when the temperature exceeded 90 degrees Fahrenheit did they crank on some artificial air conditioning. Intel did very little to address air-born contaminants and dust, and nothing at all to deal with fluctuating humidity. The result: a slightly higher failure rate — around 0.6 percent more — among the air-cooled servers compared to those in the company's main datacenter — and a potential savings of $2.87 million per year in a 10MW datacenter using free cooling over traditional cooling."

EFF Sues NSA, President Bush, and VP Cheney 267

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 18, 2008 @01:10PM from the aw-heck-why-not dept.

VisualE writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will file a lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government agencies today on behalf of AT&T customers to stop the illegal, unconstitutional, and ongoing dragnet surveillance of their communications and communications records. The five individual plaintiffs are also suing President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Cheney's chief of staff David Addington, former Attorney General and White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and other individuals who ordered or participated in the warrantless domestic surveillance."

Submission + - Learn Cell BE Programming

Submitted by arehnius on Sunday March 04, 2007 @01:13PM

arehnius writes: The lab of High-Performance Computing of Georgia Tech, directed by Dr. Bader, and in which I work in was chosen to be the "STI Cell Center of Competence". Therefor, the College of Computing of Georgia Tech hosted a one-day workshop on Cell Programming run by Hema Reddy, Cell Solutions Engineer at IBM Cell Ecosystem & Solutions Enablement. From the website,

"The workshop consists of a series of lectures and hands-on exercises in a Cell development environment to familiarize the students with Cell basic programming skills."
You'll find there everything needed to be started: an development environnement (in a virtual machine, to be used with vmware), the slides of the presentations, and the COMPLETE video of the workshop. Link to website: http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~bader/CellProgram ming.html

Submission + - Now playing: Open Source movies

Submitted by

Pritesh

on Sunday March 04, 2007 @11:48AM

Pritesh writes: "After YouTube, Will it be LetsFilm.com?

http://www.tech2.com/india/news/websites-internet/ after-youtube-will-it-be-letsfilm.com/4569/0

The Web 2.0 era, the next step in internet evolution, has opened up the online world in a way that the internet is now largely driven by User Generated Content (UGC). Be it the popular Wikipedia, or the phenomenon called YouTube, the web experience is no longer a one way lane. Today, it's all about buzz words like 'Broadcast yourself,' 'Create your own space,' or simply 'Wiki' in everything. Here's looking at an effort by a 26 year old Indian techie, who — inspired by the Open source revolution, combined with his love for movies and technology in the Web2.0era — initiated a User Generated Movie platform, LetsFilm.com."

Submission + - Complete Computing System in 20K lines of Code

Submitted by

Ron Teitelbaum

on Sunday March 04, 2007 @11:27AM

Ron Teitelbaum writes: "Viewpoints Research Institute work Steps Toward The Reinvention of Programming — A Compact And Practical Model of Personal Computing As A Self-Exploratorium has been picked up by the National Science Foundation and will be supported with a 5 year grant. Check out Ian Piumarta's, of Viewpoints Research Institute, Stanford University talk"

Submission + - Homebrew Launcher for Wii Released

Submitted by Croakyvoice on Sunday March 04, 2007 @06:10AM

Croakyvoice writes: Datel have finally released their all in one Homebrew launcher for the Nintendo Wii and Gamecube, the launcher consists of software CD, 1GB high-speed SD card, a USB SD card adapter and an SD media adapter to fit in your Cube's memory card slot. The easiest and legal way to play Emulators and Homebrew on the Nintendo Wii.

Open Access For Research Gaining Steam 64

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday March 02, 2007 @01:35AM from the popularity-contests dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The BBC reports that open access to research is gaining steam as more than 20,000 people, including Nobel Prize winners, have signed a petition calling for greater access to publicly-funded research. While publishers are fighting open access, a growing number of funding agencies and universities are making it a mandatory requirement."

Submission + - Has Apple become a vaporware producer?

Submitted by

MrPerfekt

on Friday March 02, 2007 @01:01AM

MrPerfekt writes: "I am a giant Apple fan, but with the recent Apple TV delay and complete lack of information about the release of Leopard, I think this is a fair question. The iPhone is still months off as well. Apple has been somewhat out of character the past year telling us about products that are in development in the first place but it highlights the fact that they haven't released anything groundbreaking in a while. Instead, we only seem to get tastes of what's to come. I think this is minorly intensified by the fact that Macintoshes now use Intel processors. We can see the Intel roadmap and what is due to be released when and can eagerly anticipate a future Apple release that may be a while off. So, is Apple now in the unenviable position of being a company that gets us excited about future products that may not show up for a long time, if at all?"

Marvin Minsky On AI 231

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday March 02, 2007 @12:18AM from the dreaming-of-electric-sheep dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a three-part Dr. Dobbs podcast, AI pioneer and MIT professor Marvin Minsky examines the failures of AI research and lays out directions for future developments in the field. In part 1, 'It's 2001. Where's HAL?' he looks at the unfulfilled promises of artificial intelligence. In part 2 and in part 3 he offers hope that real progress is in the offing. With this talk from Minsky, Congressional testimony on the digital future from Tim Berners-Lee, life-extension evangelization from Ray Kurzweil, and Stephen Hawking planning to go into space, it seems like we may be on the verge of another AI or future-science bubble."

Submission + - ESR "reaches limit" with Fedora

Submitted by

lisah

on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @09:59AM

lisah writes: "Renowned open source supporter Eric Raymond vented his spleen in an open letter to Fedora. Touched off by four hours worth of headaches while trying to upgrade a single package, Raymond says he's jumping ship after 13 years but says it's 'a damn, dirty shame' it had to come to that."

Journal Journal: F-22 Navigation Glitch: "It worked fine in the lab" 4

Journal by DingerX on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @09:20AM

IFENs aren't the only computer system you can crash in flight, evidently. The shiny-new F-22 raptor arrived in Okinawa this weekend, the first overseas deployment for the USAF's most advanced and most expensive fighter. The arrival was a week late, due to a

Feed Steve Jobs, Proud to Be Nonunion (feedburner.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @09:12AM

Apple's CEO thinks teachers' unions ruined education. Maybe teaching can be outsourced to Chinese iPod factories where unions aren't a problem. Commentary by Leander Kahney.

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