Performance Per Watt on Power6: Same Thermals, More Work
August 13, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan
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The largest data centers in the world, particularly those that are located on the East and West coasts of the United States or in similarly heavily urbanized areas around the globe that strain their respective power grids, are facing two problems. The first problem is that their data centers are running out of power and cooling capacity to keep servers and their related storage running. The second problem, affecting mostly urban areas on the coasts so far but maybe everywhere on the grid as electricity consumption grows, is that power companies are actually telling corporations that they have to cap |
