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Carbon Disclosure Project’s emissions reduction claims for cloud computing are flawed
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is a not-for-profit organisation which takes in greenhouse gas emissions, water use and climate change strategy data from thousands of organisations globally. This data is voluntarily disclosed by these organisations and is CDP’s lifeblood. Yesterday the CDP launched a new study Cloud Computing – The IT Solution for the 21st…
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SAP’s Palo Alto energy efficiency and CO2 reductions
As mentioned previously, I was in Santa Clara and Palo Alto last week for a couple of SAP events. At these events SAP shared some of its carbon reduction policies and strategies. According to SAP Chief Sustainability Officer Peter Graf, the greatest bang for buck SAP is achieving comes from the deployment of telepresence suites.…
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Energy efficient supercomputers from IBM!
Photo credit Argonne National Laboratory Supercomputers are particularly fast computers (often made up of thousands of “off the shelf” computers) typically used for highly calculation-intensive tasks such as climate research, molecular modelling, research into nuclear fusion, etc. The Green 500 is a ranking of the most energy efficient supercomputers measured in Floating Point Operations per…