Comments on: Energy-Efficient Server Research Mandated by Congress http://www.petercellis.com/blog/?p=519 Personal Thoughts and Ramblings Wed, 13 Nov 2013 06:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.37 By: Peter http://www.petercellis.com/blog/?p=519#comment-36 Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:11:19 +0000 http://www.energysoapbox.org/2006/07/14/energy-efficient-server-research-mandated-by-congress/#comment-36 The Energy Star ratings system was started by the EPA, though I’m not certain that it was in response to any sort of Congressional mandate. They established a program that today is the standard for considering the energy efficiency of appliances. There’s supposedly a new Energy Star standard for computers coming out in mid-2007. The need for power-efficient computing has been around for a while, and there’s been little research in the field that I’m completely aware of until very recently. I see no problem with such a mandate and funding for it – if anything, it will spark private innovation even more than it already has.

I seem to recall seeing articles in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Association of Computing Machinery literature recently on the subject of energy-efficient processors and the like. It’s not that such research doesn’t exist, it’s that it’s not currently supported by the government directly, via the EPA or otherwise.

It does seem odd to me that the EPA should be the target of such a mandate.

]]> By: Peter http://www.petercellis.com/blog/?p=519#comment-38 Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:11:00 +0000 http://www.energysoapbox.org/2006/07/14/energy-efficient-server-research-mandated-by-congress/#comment-38 The Energy Star ratings system was started by the EPA, though I’m not certain that it was in response to any sort of Congressional mandate. They established a program that today is the standard for considering the energy efficiency of appliances. There’s supposedly a new Energy Star standard for computers coming out in mid-2007. The need for power-efficient computing has been around for a while, and there’s been little research in the field that I’m completely aware of until very recently. I see no problem with such a mandate and funding for it – if anything, it will spark private innovation even more than it already has.

I seem to recall seeing articles in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Association of Computing Machinery literature recently on the subject of energy-efficient processors and the like. It’s not that such research doesn’t exist, it’s that it’s not currently supported by the government directly, via the EPA or otherwise.

It does seem odd to me that the EPA should be the target of such a mandate.

]]> By: Myles Bostwick http://www.petercellis.com/blog/?p=519#comment-37 Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:56:47 +0000 http://www.energysoapbox.org/2006/07/14/energy-efficient-server-research-mandated-by-congress/#comment-37 I was reading over this bill at http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c109:3:./temp/~c109Yzva2w:: and I really don’t feel this is any kind of landmark or even something to be excited about. The government is launching another study and using $500,000 to do it. The ultimate goal being to encourage “purchasers of computer servers to give high priority to energy efficiency as a factor in determining best value and performance for purchases of computer servers.” Why can’t the encouragement be done without the half a million dollars? Ok, there’s the topic, discuss.

]]> By: Myles Bostwick http://www.petercellis.com/blog/?p=519#comment-39 Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:56:00 +0000 http://www.energysoapbox.org/2006/07/14/energy-efficient-server-research-mandated-by-congress/#comment-39 I was reading over this bill at http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c109:3:./temp/~c109Yzva2w:: and I really don’t feel this is any kind of landmark or even something to be excited about. The government is launching another study and using $500,000 to do it. The ultimate goal being to encourage “purchasers of computer servers to give high priority to energy efficiency as a factor in determining best value and performance for purchases of computer servers.” Why can’t the encouragement be done without the half a million dollars? Ok, there’s the topic, discuss.

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