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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All thanks to Ninnle! by Anonymous Coward · 2010-03-28 22:43 · Score: 0, Troll

What the article fails to mention is the usage of the latest version of Ninnle Linux, nicely optimized for Atom processors. (I'm using it right here on this netbook.) Thanks to Ninnle, the system could be properly optimized, something that cannot happen within the current Windoze framework.