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If you’re looking to supplement your trading floor applications, business analytics infrastructure or Internet site capacity, SiCortex has a proposition for you: a 72-processor high-performance Linux platform with CPUs that use just 0.6 watts of electricity each. In other words, this is a high-performance computer that is designed to use less electricity than a single desktop PC.

The company calls its new measuring system the Green Computing Performance Index, and it’s urging managers of government and academic supercomputing centers and corporate data centers to use it to evaluate the full benefits and costs of owning high-performance computing systems from companies like Cray, SGI, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and of course, SiCortex itself

Computer manufacturer SiCortex has proposed a more inclusive set of metrics for comparing energy efficiency in the High-Productivity Computing segment, comprising systems that perform complex scientific and industrial calculations. The Green Computing Performance Index (GCPI) measures overall system performance-per-watt, based on the industry standard HPCC benchmark suite.

The Assabet River these days rushes through Maynard, MA, without lending any of its liquid muscle to local industry. But for more than a century, the river supplied power to the Assabet Woolen Mill, a vast brick complex that, in its heyday, was the largest source of wool for U.S. military uniforms. I went to the mill two weeks ago to visit computer maker SiCortex, which is just one of...

SiCortex announced a newly added line of faster, more energy efficient MIPS-based systems used currently in high performance computing clusters. These new processors literally double efficiency by increasing the clock speed and reducing power consumption in the same physical footprint (socket/system).