Microsoft Invests $500K in Energy Efficient Computing Research
The funding is part of the company’s Sustainable Computing Program, which focuses on energy efficiency and the “pay for play” principle where the amount of energy used by a computing device is proportional to the demand placed on it. The award recipients include University of Tennessee, Stanford, Harvard and University of Oklahoma.
Microsoft plans to award $500,000 to four universities for research into more energy efficient computers.
The funding is part of the company’s Sustainable Computing Program, which focuses on energy efficiency and the “pay for play” principle where the amount of energy used by a computing device is proportional to the demand placed on it. The program seeks to spur innovation in hardware design, software, networking, benchmarking, analysis and virtualization.
"We want to open new avenues of research and raise the awareness of power as a critical resource that needs to be managed," said Sailesh
Chutani, senior director of Microsoft External Research. "Through this program, we are encouraging novel thinking about how to reduce that power consumption and how to make technology more environmentally friendly into the future."
The University of Tennessee will receive a chunk of the award for its research into developing frameworks for integrating power and performance improvements in virtualized data centers.
Stanford University will use its share of the reward for research into developing a building-scale power analysis infrastructure based on a dense sensor network.
Harvard will create a dynamic runtime environment where power consumption is relative to computational demands. The University of Oklahoma will build a simulation network to study low-power x86 architectures.
The funding is part of the company’s Sustainable Computing Program, which focuses on energy efficiency and the “pay for play” principle where the amount of energy used by a computing device is proportional to the demand placed on it. The program seeks to spur innovation in hardware design, software, networking, benchmarking, analysis and virtualization.
"We want to open new avenues of research and raise the awareness of power as a critical resource that needs to be managed," said Sailesh
Chutani, senior director of Microsoft External Research. "Through this program, we are encouraging novel thinking about how to reduce that power consumption and how to make technology more environmentally friendly into the future."
The University of Tennessee will receive a chunk of the award for its research into developing frameworks for integrating power and performance improvements in virtualized data centers.
Stanford University will use its share of the reward for research into developing a building-scale power analysis infrastructure based on a dense sensor network.
Harvard will create a dynamic runtime environment where power consumption is relative to computational demands. The University of Oklahoma will build a simulation network to study low-power x86 architectures.
