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BLACKSBURG, VA – October 20, 2008 – Virginia Tech and Energyware worked together to take first place in the Southeastern University Research Association's first annual Intellectual Property to Market (IP2M) competition. Virginia Tech's EcoDaemon ranked number one among entries from over sixty research institutions in the southeastern United States.
EcoDaemon was co-invented by Virginia Tech professor Dr.Wu Feng and Song Huang a graduate student in the computer science department at Virginia Tech. The software can not only save substantial amounts of energy being used by compute resources while applications execute, but it also increases the reliability and longevity of hardware by lowering internal operating temperatures. These reductions result in a significantly lower cost of ownership and environmental impact of large data centers.
"Energy consumption in data centers is doubling every five years and already consumes 3 percent of domestic electric power," said Bob Summers, CEO of EnergyWare. "We are going to bring this valuable IP to market to help solve this critical global energy problem," he said.
EcoDaemon is an intelligent software package that runs as an application service and maximizes performance while saving energy. "For example, a computer system which normally consumes more than 300 watts of power can be reduced to 240 watts on average while marginally impacting computing speed. Reduction in energy consumption further reduces cooling needs," said Summers.
"EcoDaemon, operates by judiciously and automatically telling the processor when to change its frequency and voltage and what to change it to in order to simultaneously maximize energy savings and performance," said Summers.
"This award will allow for small but key commercialization efforts for EcoDaemon and push us to the next level of commercial viability," said Dr. Feng, "We are grateful for the recognition by the judging panel that our technology has potential for real impact."
EnergyWare provides efficient computing solutions which reduce cost and increase the value of enterprise IT infrastructure. Our green computing products bring proven supercomputing technology to commercial customers who demand high performance and efficiency. EnergyWare solutions reduce carbon emissions, increase reliability and lower operational cost significantly while maintaining the performance of enterprise data centers.
The Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) is a consortium of over sixty universities across the US. SURA jointly operates the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility on behalf of the US Department of Energy through Jefferson Science Associates, LLC - and runs the SURA Residence Facility. SURA also promotes initiatives in nuclear physics, information technologies, coastal research and technology commercialization.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, better known as Virginia Tech, is a public land grant polytechnic university in Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.