Coding for a greener internet: Researchers find way to reduce data center energy

Here's how UW researchers could reduce the world's energy costs

University of Waterloo researchers developed coding that could create a greener future, helping reduce the amount of energy data centers use.

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Coding for a greener internet: Researchers find way to reduce data center energy

Researchers from the University of Waterloo have found a way to reduce the energy use of some data centers by as much as 30%.

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University of Waterloo: Coding for a greener internet. “[Martin] Karsten teamed up with Joe Damato, distinguished engineer at Fastly, to develop a small section of code – approximately 30 lines – that would improve Linux’s network traffic processing. If adopted, the new method could reduce the energy consumption of important data centre operations by as much as 30 per cent, Karsten said.”The post University of Waterloo: Coding for a greener inte…

University of Waterloo - Waterloo researchers' find way to reduce data centre energy use by up to 30 per cent

Researchers from the University of Waterloo have found a way to reduce the energy use of some data centres by as much as 30 per cent.Computing accounts for as much as 5. . .

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Karsten and his co-author, Computer Science grad student Peter Cai, realized that the way that data centres were processing network traffic was inefficient and devised a small change to make it far more efficient.