Researchers from the University of Waterloo have found a way to reduce the energy use of some data centres by as much as 30 per cent.
Computing accounts for as much as 5 per cent of the world’s total energy use every day, and that type of energy consumption is expected to significantly increase as computing power is needed to meet the exponential growth of artificial intelligence. Nearly all web traffic is routed through data centres, the majority of which use the open-source operating system Linux.
Read the full story on Waterloo News. Mathematics 4 will accelerate sustainable computing research like Karsten's. The Green Room, an energy-efficient server room, will enable researchers to explore and document the relationships between resource input and application objectives for large-scale computing.