[clug] Green/Energy Efficient Linux Computer

[Alex Satrapa]

On 06/09/2009, at 21:07 , Karun Dambiec wrote:

> I would like some recommendations regarding the most energy efficient
> option.

Laptops don't come much "greener" than MacBook Pros - Core 2 Duo, the  
entire system is designed to be as efficient as possible, and Apple  
have been going to great lengths to remove dangerous chemicals from  
their manufacturing - this was one of the motivations for the switch  
to aluminium unibody design.

You can run virtual machines from the host OS, or use Linux on the  
bare metal. If those options don't cover what you're after, perhaps  
you need to be more specific about your requirements :)

"... it cannot use Atom CPUs" is vastly different for example to, "it  
must be capable of running sixteen virtualised processors in a  
simulated supercomputer facility to demonstrate massively parallel  
programming for seismological prediction. The system must be capable  
of 'x' MFlops per Watt in this configuration."

Regards
Alex

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