New world record in energy-efficient data processing

Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 12:22 in Mathematics & Economics

Scientists from Frankfurt's Goethe University and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) developed a system that substantially reduces the energy consumption for processing huge amounts of data. They improved over the power efficiency of the former record holders from Stanford University by a factor of three to four. The record is listed in the "sort benchmark", which is published by companies like Hewlett-Packard und Microsoft.

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