Re: [Beowulf] Electricity cost: a critical survival issue of our ICT infrastructures.

2013-04-10 Thread Lux, Jim (337C)
In the US, electricity comes mostly from coal and natural gas, with the latter rapidly replacing the former. France is somewhat unusual in having significant nuclear generation, but in the US, nuclear has been roughly constant at about 20%. In PetaWattHr Coal1.517 Gas 1.231(natura

Re: [Beowulf] May 1st 2013 (10 weeks) Coursera High Performance Scientific Computing

2013-04-10 Thread Joshua Mora
Thanks for the pointer. It seems rather complete but it is missing an important or fundamental topic for high performance computing: profiling, at least at introductory level. Joshua -- Original Message -- Received: 04:45 PM CEST, 04/10/2013 From: Eugen Leitl To: Beowulf@beowulf.org, i..

[Beowulf] May 1st 2013 (10 weeks) Coursera High Performance Scientific Computing

2013-04-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
https://www.coursera.org/course/scicomp High Performance Scientific Computing Randall J. LeVeque Programming-oriented course on effectively using modern computers to solve scientific computing problems arising in the physical/engineering sciences and other fields. Provides an introduction to ef

Re: [Beowulf] Electricity cost: a critical survival issue of our ICT infrastructures.

2013-04-10 Thread John Hearns
Well, looks like 2.5% of my nodes are running on tulip power today and 2% on red wine: http://www.ukenergywatch.org/Electricity/Realtime 38% gas powered though. ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your

Re: [Beowulf] Electricity cost: a critical survival issue of our ICT infrastructures.

2013-04-10 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
On Apr 6, 2013, at 9:56 AM, Reiner Hartenstein wrote: > > > Dear friends, > > Energy cost will massively grow within this and next decade because of > decreasing oil and gas supply and rapidly growing electricity demand. > For the time from 2008 until 2030 the electricity comsumption growth > of