Atom Processors Set New Record For Power-Efficient Sorting

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 28, 2010 @09:20PM from the one-electron-at-a-time dept.

schliz writes "German researchers have set a new record for energy efficient data sorting with a system based on netbook processors and Solid State Disks. The system, dubbed EcoSort, more than tripled the power efficiency of former record holders, leading one of its developers to claim: 'In the long run, many small, power-efficient and cooperating systems are going to replace the so far used, heavy weighted ones.' Records were defined by 'Sort Benchmark,' which was created by missing Microsoft scientist Jim Gray and was now managed by representatives of companies like Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft."

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Re:why is the Via C7 not more popular? by FuckingNickName · 2010-03-28 23:26 · Score: 5, Informative

Erm, no, for developers there have been Linux kernel crypto modules supporting the Via Padlock included since 2.6.11, and if you don't want them, you can always use the crypto instructions directly. The Java is just an API option provided by Via.