Microsoft Funds Low-Power Data Center Studies
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) will award $500,000 in research grants to major universities exploring new approaches to data center power efficiency, power management and the creation of low-power parallel computing architecture, the company said today. The program encourages researchers to use novel approaches in hardware design, software, networking, benchmarking, analysis, virtualization and any other avenue that might provide improvements in the field.
The $500,000 will be awarded among the four schools. Here's an overview of the projects:
- Control-Theoretic Power and Performance Management for Green Data Centers: A team at the University of Tennessee is developing frameworks for integrating power and performance improvements in virtualized data centers.
- Building a Building-scale Power Analysis Infrastructure: Stanford University researchers are working on the design and deployment of a dense sensor network for power analysis, producing data for future research on power-aware computing.
- A Synergistic Approach to Adaptive Power Management: Harvard University's project seeks to develop a dynamic runtime environment that ensures that power consumption is proportional to the computational demands made on the system.
- Simulating Low Power x86 Architectures with Sooner, a Phoenix-based Simulation Framework: Researchers at the University of Oklahoma are developing a simulation framework that supports the study of low-power microarchitectures for innovative multicore systems.
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By Rich Miller 
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