Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and AES Corporation have recently formalized a strategic partnership that will enable the two entities to identify, evaluate, and develop a range of mutually beneficial technologies that have broad energy applications.
Headquartered in Arlington, Va., AES Corporation is one of the world's leading power companies, generating and distributing electric power in 26 countries through an array of world-class power businesses.
Potential areas of collaboration include:
- Greenhouse gas offset technologies
- Smart networks
- Technology grids
- Generation technologies
- Water technologies
- Energy storage
- Biofuels
- Operational reliability and efficiency
- Separation technologies
- Power-aware computing
- Fuel cell technologies
LANL and AES have also executed an exclusive license option agreement for a unique technology called "EnergyFit"—a transparent software layer that reduces the power consumption of high-performance computing systems. Because the algorithm minimizes the energy consumed by individual CPUs in a cluster, EnergyFit can dramatically reduce overall power consumption in a data center.
EnergyFit delivers typical system energy savings of 10 to 25 percent, with a bounded performance reduction of less than 5 percent. Energy consumption is the largest portion of a typical data center's budget. EnergyFit's novel, patent-pending algorithm has been proven to yield the maximum energy savings while delivering computational results within a deadline.
LANL and AES envision a long-term cooperative effort that will involve a variety of important and mutually beneficial energy-related projects.
More info: Laura Barber, 505-667-9266, ljbb@lanl.gov
