ICT Environmental Sustainability Discussion Forum

Re: it isn't easy... monitoring desktop power consumption

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:50:10 GMT

by Andrew Cann.

Bianca,

Yep aware of that. Fortunately as we're running a Citrix published desktop environment from one server room, this is now allowing me to shutdown the redundant servers all around the country in each office. Around 50 all up.

Additionally each blade server runs about 20 desktops...so much much more efficient.

Regards

Andrew

Re: it isn't easy... monitoring desktop power consumption

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:52:37 GMT

by Bianca Wirth.

Hi Andrew, thanks for sharing and no flaming but....one point on thin terminals: even though thin clients do use less energy than a normal PC (Forrester, 2008) and in your tests the thin client itself only uses 6c of energy over 24hrs, please consider it also uses power resources from a server farm. Further explanation here in one of my blog posts here: http://blogs.technet.com/lmeg/archive/2008/05/09/apparently-thin-is-in-for-green-computing-but-you-need-to-consider-the-flexibility-factor-baby.aspx

cheers,

Re: e-Learning Course on Green ICT Strategies

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:06:30 GMT

by Tom Worthington.

Andrew Cann wrote 27 February 2009, 02:23 PM:

>... laptops ... keyboards are terrible in the long term. ...

There are now some low power, low cost "Nettops" available. These are desktop computers using the same low power processors as the Netbooks. You then plug full size keyboards and screens into them.

>... you just have to make it attractive and they'll follow. ...

One problem I found with Nettop type units is that the user feels they have been short-changed by not getting a proper computer. This is a problem where they come in small cigar box size units. Technical people see these little boxes as marvels of engineering, but the users feel they are getting a toy computer. Some makers use standard size PC cases, which are mostly empty space, but make the user feel they are getting a real computer.