Author Archives: Nicole Hemsoth
Nicole Hemsoth
Greenpeace Names Cisco, Google ‘Cool IT’ Leaders
June 4th, 2013
<span>The sixth Cool IT Leaderboard ranked 21 technology leaders </span>based on their efforts to drive transformative change in the way that energy is produced and consumed.
The Path to Software-Defined Power
June 4th, 2013
Fulfilling the potential of green computing in the datacenter requires more than innovative temperature taming techniques; the IT equipment itself has to operate with greater efficiency. A proposed solution incorporates an additional software layer to optimize power usage rates.
Boeing Goes Lean with Robotic Wing Painters
June 4th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/boeingASM.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />Taking a page from the auto industry’s book, Boeing has added some high-tech workers to their Everett widebody-jet assembly plant. The new robotic painting machines are responsible for washing, applying solvents ...
Green IT: Burden or Opportunity?
June 3rd, 2013
<p>A holistic and objective assessment reveals that it is better to adopt green IT in the interest of several opportunities and benefits it offers to businesses, the society and our planet even if it is a burden. Smart companies ...
RoboCup Soccer Makes a Different Kind of Robotics “Goal”
June 3rd, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/800px-Robocup_Robots_Futbolistas_(4892794535).jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />The world championship series for intelligent robotics will be held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, from June 26-30. This RoboCup series expects to see around 2,500 contestants from close to 40 different ...
What Drives the Offshoring Tide?
June 3rd, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/shipping.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="62" border="0" />As the tug of war continues between offshoring and reshoring, the goal of lawmakers has primarily been to identify incentives with which we can lure manufacturers back onto U.S. soil. But ...
Robot Optimizes Datacenter Cooling
May 31st, 2013
IBM developed a robot to map temperature and humidity levels in datacenters, ensuring that all equipment receives the optimal amount of cooling.
Inside the Human-Robotics Systems Project
May 31st, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/640px-K10_black_rover_at_Haughton_Crater.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="64" border="0" />NASA's Human-Robotic Systems Project, which includes a series of four interplanetary K10 rovers, each with a different task is explained by Terry Fong, Director of Intelligent Robotics Group and project manager ...
Modeling a Stronger Nuclear Weapon
May 31st, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/SRAMmissile.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />When it comes to systems that you really want to model out carefully, nuclear weapons likely come out at the top of that list. So when the National Nuclear Security Administration’s ...
Iceland Wants Your Datacenter Business
May 30th, 2013
A new independent study conducted by global research outfit BroadGroup Consulting reveals that Iceland is on track to becoming an international datacenter hub. The report describes Iceland's unique advantages: clean energy reserves, low power prices and a solid infrastructure.
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