On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 18:33:29 -0500, Roberts, John J wrote:

>>Has anyone seen this NY Times article?  Perhaps the reporter should have 
>>looked in the Times Tower for how they are saving power. Mainframes are far 
>>more efficient, and these CIO's and companies are doing whatever they can do 
>>to get rid of them. Maybe the Times needs a mirror....
>
>    
> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/technology/data-centers-waste-vast-amounts-of-energy-belying-industry-image.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

(Just to try to unwrap the URL.)

>(3) The CPU chip makers are about to apply Mobile technology to their Server 
>CPU's.  Mobile CPU's dynamically adjust their clock speeds to fit the 
>workload, sometimes running at 200MHz and at other times running full throttle 
>at 2GHz+ or more.  Server CPU's will soon do the same.  When throttled down, a 
>CPU uses much less energy and radiates much less heat.
>
Is there any model of z that does this yet?

-- gil

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