I saw Minnesota's own Tom Friedman talk tonight in support of the Minnesotan's Military Appreciation Fund, which is a fund designed to help Minnesotans serving in the military and their families' needs. The fund has raised $5.5 million so far.
Friedman's talk was titled Green is the new red,white, and blue. The concepts will be familiar to the readers of his column, basically green makes sense from a geopoliticalm strategic, economic, and educational competitiveness standpoint for the 21st century. Green is a concept that cuts across red-blue divides.
Some interesting green reading I have seen recently includes:
Dan Pritchett - Compute Power Is Your Architecture Green?
Measure transactions/watt. This is a new metric for me. But if you don't measure it, you can't improve it. SPEC has formed a power and performance committee which will be useful for an initial calibration of vendor equipment, but ultimately the transactions you need to optimize are yours. It may be hard to initially set targets for transactions/watt but measuring and monitoring the metric will certainly lead to better awareness of how the application is doing over time. ... Use deployment patterns. Standardizing the patterns you use for software deployment improves the possibility of sharing hardware amongst multiple services. Design patterns so services can be safely share one server and require components to conform to the deployment pattern.
The Atlantic Monthly's profile of Craig Venter's company's work on cellulosic ethanol.
Vinod Khosla on Biofuels.
World Changing - All of the above and a whole lot more
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