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ACT3: New ways to Power Something I use Everyday
Having thought about this for a while I realise that I have been sort of doing this for a few years now.
I use computer servers everyday as part of what I do. A few years back I decided to learn about, and implement virtual servers. Traditionally servers have been hardware using power to provide a particular service or group of services to computer users. More often than not the percentage of power just to have these devices turned on have been a large proportion of the power consumption when the devices are working at full capacity. More often than not servers are turned on but idle waiting to do some work. This wastes energy.
The way to make use of this wasted energy is to reduce the number of physically powered up machines by consolidating multiple servers on one hardware platform. I do this everyday of my life now, using power that would have been wasted to power the likes of what you are doing now. Using services on the internet. I have also made hardware choices to make further gains in efficiency, bit that starts to get technical.
Now that I have implemented virtualisation I am ready for the next leap of efficiency which is to move to private cloud computing. Triggers can be set based on how hard the hardware is working to fire up or close down machines, and instances of virtual machines, and instances of applications and services to further optimise the use of power.
The four technology groups I am about to use can be found at the following links if others in the internet services field wish to do the same thing.
http://www.wavemaker.com/
As my hardware is housed is data centres I further save power by working from home, thus saving fuel to get to an office and the electricity to run an office tower I otherwise might have required. As data centres are now a major consumer of power I am pleased that the likes of google and bloom energy are paving the way to zero carbon footprint computing.
Would any of you stop using the internet to try to save the world because the servers that run it use electricity and the coal fired power stations produce pollution when supplying it?
I use computer servers everyday as part of what I do. A few years back I decided to learn about, and implement virtual servers. Traditionally servers have been hardware using power to provide a particular service or group of services to computer users. More often than not the percentage of power just to have these devices turned on have been a large proportion of the power consumption when the devices are working at full capacity. More often than not servers are turned on but idle waiting to do some work. This wastes energy.
The way to make use of this wasted energy is to reduce the number of physically powered up machines by consolidating multiple servers on one hardware platform. I do this everyday of my life now, using power that would have been wasted to power the likes of what you are doing now. Using services on the internet. I have also made hardware choices to make further gains in efficiency, bit that starts to get technical.
Now that I have implemented virtualisation I am ready for the next leap of efficiency which is to move to private cloud computing. Triggers can be set based on how hard the hardware is working to fire up or close down machines, and instances of virtual machines, and instances of applications and services to further optimise the use of power.
The four technology groups I am about to use can be found at the following links if others in the internet services field wish to do the same thing.
http://www.wavemaker.com/
As my hardware is housed is data centres I further save power by working from home, thus saving fuel to get to an office and the electricity to run an office tower I otherwise might have required. As data centres are now a major consumer of power I am pleased that the likes of google and bloom energy are paving the way to zero carbon footprint computing.
Would any of you stop using the internet to try to save the world because the servers that run it use electricity and the coal fired power stations produce pollution when supplying it?
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Comment by Joe Sutton on March 21, 2010 at 4:02am
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I never thought of cloud computing in terms of energy efficiency. We all know that a cloud-based OS like Chrome may have a computer boot faster, but actually considering efficiency of energy is a huge bonus that should win me over.
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Comment by Greg Stevenson on March 31, 2010 at 7:36pm
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Also the servers I have at home vent warm air to the bedrooms and lounge during winter and outside during summer. :-)
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