IBM Helps Clients Measure Energy Progress

IBM has announced new energy-management software, an expansion of its energy certificates program, and an energy benchmark to help clients establish energy efficiency goals, optimize for energy efficiency and measure and verify their green IT progress across the enterprise.

The new offerings for energy measurement include: IBM Active Energy Manager software to measure power usage of key elements of the datacenter, from IT systems to chilling and air conditioning units; an expansion of IBM's Energy Certificates program to 34 countries; and an online energy assessment benchmark.

UTSA To Host Energy Summit

UTSA will bring together energy leaders, industry professionals and academicians representing three countries for the inaugural UTSA North American Energy Summit (NAES) May 1-2 at the UTSA Downtown Campus. The summit will feature experts in a range of fields from the United States, Canada and Mexico who will discuss future energy needs.

The Thursday, May 1 panel sessions will address short-term energy futures over the next 20 years, global environmental change, and energy production and efficiency. Friday, May 2 panel sessions will cover paths to sustainability, emerging technologies and social and educational challenges.

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."