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Brian
03-07-2006, 09:53 AM
Data Centers Give Intel Static over Electric Bills (http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/9270/Data+Centers+Give+Intel+Static+over+Electric+Bills /)

"Jeffrey Skolnick, of the Georgia Institute of Technology, used to just worry about harnessing enough computing power to chase down cancer genes. Today, he's worried about his electric bill, too.

Skolnick, director of the Institute's Center for the Study of Systems Biology, in Atlanta, said concerns about server power consumption and heat weighed heavily on researchers who had to design a new 1,000-node computing cluster at Georgia Tech."

Read full story here (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1934122,00.asp)

Rich
03-07-2006, 09:53 AM
Power is becoming the bigger issue. Information Week also had a nice article about this very problem too.

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=180207724