[Techtalk] going green

[Anne Wainwright]

Hello, Maria, & all,

I am not especially technical, but I do read all of the posts on
techtalk so as to not miss anything. Not for any special reason beyond
my own general interest in saving unnecessary power consumption by
switching the hot water off when not needed, this thread has been
interesting in that so many people have come up with so many ways to
make a contribution to solving the problem raised by Maria and her
impecunious management.

This is the nicest linux group going bar none!

As I write this I imagine that the Brazil coach is already on the phone
seeing if he can get the team's return tickets from South Africa moved
forward. Shame! (as we say here).

bestest
Anne


On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:59:27 -0700
Maria McKinley <maria at shadlen.org> wrote:

> I am getting pressure from my boss to make our servers/computers
> "more green", but am at a bit of a loss as to what to do. Not even
> sure if this is something to tackle in software or hardware. It seems
> what I want, at least for the cluster, is something that keeps track
> of demand, and turns on or wakes up computers when more processing
> power is needed,   but not sure how to implement something like this.
> Currently, people look on a web page to see which computers are being
> used the least, and then log onto those computers to do computations.
> But, to make the other scenario work, would need some central place
> to log on, and then have the computer decide where to send the
> process, and whether to "wake up" a computer. Any ideas or experience
> with this sort of stuff out there?
> 
> thanks,
> maria
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