Green Computing With C++

February 17, 2011

Green Computing With C++ By Dean Michael Berris Have you heard of green computing? It's basically the concept of lowering the energy requirements of computers in order to reduce the carbon footprint of datacenter operations and desktop/mobile applications. The idea is that since computers already suck out a lot of juice from the power grid around the world, at least we should be able to reduce the amount of heat that the computers generate to save on the costs of cooling the machines in data centers. There are a lot of ways to do this from the external side of the equation - design well ventilated data centers like the ones Google and Yahoo have, consolidate multiple servers into smaller less-power hungry form factors like what SeaMicro have, etc. - but that's not very interesting from a software developer's standpoint. C++ to the rescue? There had been quite some buzz a few months back about Facebook going greener by reducing the computing requirements of their web-facing web servers by developing and releasing HipHop PHP. If you haven't heard about that yet, basically: Continue Reading

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