Yahoo’s new facility shows growing importance of green data centers. Yahoo unveiled a new data center in Lockport, New York today, boasting one of the most energy-efficient data centers in the world – and exemplifying the push among big Internet companies to green data storage.
The new data center boasts some nice stats — the company says it will use 40 percent less energy and 95 percent less water than conventional data centers. Yahoo says its power-use effectiveness (PUE) for the facility is 1.08, which means 92 percent of power consumption goes towards actual computing, not ancillary things like lighting and cooling.
The data center will be powered in part by hydropower and reduce energy costs to one cent for cooling for every dollar spent on electricity. It was built with the help of a $9.9 million grant from the Department of Energy. The issue of green data storage is one that’s growing in importance. There are public relations implications too, as green advocates turn their eyes to energy-gobbling data storage centers. Yahoo puts Internet content on big-screen Toshiba TVs. Posted: 05/02/2012 10:35:42 PM PDT0 Comments|Updated: about a year ago Congratulations!
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Yahoo spins cloud web around competitors - Software - News. Yahoo is looking to give away its cloud computing technology to anyone who wants it via its Hadoop initiative in order to establish its software as the foundation and standards for the "emerging cloud revolution", according to a company executive.
Speaking to ZDNet Asia in an interview Monday, Raghu Ramakrishnan, chief scientist of audience and cloud computing research at Yahoo, noted that the Internet company has not been involved in "many cloud conversations" today as these revolve around "low-level cloud services", but it is still very much in the game. Elaborating, he said that many of today's cloud services such as those provided by Amazon Web Services and Salesforce.com, are basically infrastructure products with "baked-in" apps that can be used straight out from the box. Yahoo, however, has chosen to take a different cloud approach, Ramakrishnan stated. Yahoo! economist rebuilds ad empire with 'Magic Formula' Yahoo!
CEO Carol Bartz owns a sweatshirt emblazoned with Preston McAfee's math. McAfee is an economist, but he's the sort of economist who's actually useful. In the early-90s, he helped build the simultaneous ascending auction, a mathematical contraption that governments across the globe have since used to license over $100 million in wireless spectrum. And nowadays, as the man who oversees the microeconomics and social sciences research group at Yahoo! , he builds things that are so useful, they wind up on the boss's chest. "I'm a member of a group of people — you might even call it a movement — who do economics as an engineering discipline," McAfee tells The Reg.
"Economics as engineering discipline is all about building things with economics that are positive — as opposed to stopping things, things that won't work. " It's no surprise that he — and so many like-minded souls — wound up at Yahoo! Pi record smashed as team finds two-quadrillionth digit. 16 September 2010Last updated at 13:55 By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News The formula turns an infinite sum into a more manageable calculation of single terms A researcher has calculated the 2,000,000,000,000,000th digit of the mathematical constant pi - and a few digits either side of it.
Nicholas Sze, of tech firm Yahoo, said that when pi is expressed in binary, the two quadrillionth "bit" is 0. Mr Sze used Yahoo's Hadoop cloud computing technology to more than double the previous record. It took 23 days on 1,000 of Yahoo's computers - on a standard PC, the calculation would have taken 500 years. The heart of the calculation made use of an approach called MapReduce originally developed by Google that divides up big problems into smaller sub-problems, combining the answers to solve otherwise intractable mathematical challenges. Pi slicing The pursuit of longer versions of pi is a long-standing pastime among mathematicians.