In a new report updating market shares for 2009 and provisional market share for 2010, IMS Research says 2010 was a year of tremendous growth in the LED industry, dramatically higher than the typical growth rates of recent years. The researchers estimate the market for LEDs has grown from $6.1 billion in 2009 to about $10 billion in 2010, driven by economic recovery, lighting … [Read more...]
Chevy Volt’s Cooling Systems Include Power Electronics Coolant Loop
A GM article explaining the Chevrolet Volt’s cooling/heating systems notes that the power electronics coolant loop is designed to insure the main underhood electronics do not overheat during use. It is essential that the heat developed by the power inverter module and the plug-in battery charger while operating the Volt or when plugged in be dissipated in order to prevent … [Read more...]
Federal Government Data Center Consolidation Under Way
Now that the first two phases of the federal government’s long-term data center consolidation effort have been completed, the plan to reduce the number of federal data centers by 40% by 2015 has been put into effect. In June, President Obama issued a memo instructing agencies to adopt a zero-growth strategy for data center space over the near term, to be followed by a reduction … [Read more...]
Keeping Moore's Law Alive
Peter E. Raad Southern Methodist University and TMX Scientific, Inc., Dallas, Texas A recent news item [1] described the intended efforts of researchers from IBM, EPFL, and ETH to “keep Moore’s Law for another 15 years.” Doing so, the article adds, “will require a change from mere transistor scaling to novel packaging architectures such as so-called 3D integration, the vertical … [Read more...]
Energy Consumption of Information Technology Data Centers
Madhusudan Iyengar and Roger Schmidt IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York Many of our day-to-day activities, including Internet searches, handheld electronics usage, automated cash withdrawal, and online hotel and airline reservations, require the use of remote databases and computational infrastructure comprised of large server farms located at some faraway location from the consumer. … [Read more...]
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