End User

Power Saving Hints for the High-Performance Computing

Which possibilities for sustainability are there for users, which must have high-performant hardware?

• Clustering of low power-PCs: Example of a 12-PC-cluster of Via Epia-machines: http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/cluster/
  The cluster has an maximum power consumption of 200 watts! with a CPU-power better than four Pentium 4 2,4Ghz-machines! That's even if you make a conservative estimation of the power consumption of the Pentium 4-machines with 100 watts/per machine the half of the consumption of the Pentium's!
• There is a Green500-List of the 500 most energy efficient Supercomputers, see TheGreen500List