Microsoft Funds Energy Efficiency Computing Research

Microsoft Research has given out $500,000 to four universities doing research in more energy-efficient computing. The grants are aimed at techniques to lower power consumption.

* The University of Tennessee was awarded research money to develop frameworks to account for power and performance improvements in virtualized data centers.
* Stanford University will design a sensor network to gather data and analyze power consumption.
* Harvard University will develop a "dynamic runtime environment" that ensures power consumption corresponds to the computational load.
* The University of Oklahoma will created a simulation framework for studying "low-power microarchitectures for innovative muliticore systems."