首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Telecommuting, Internet shopping and online meetings may save energy as compared with in-person alternatives, but as the digital
Telecommuting, Internet shopping and online meetings may save energy as compared with in-person alternatives, but as the digital
admin
2015-12-28
48
问题
Telecommuting, Internet shopping and online meetings may save energy as compared with in-person alternatives, but as the digital age moves on, its green reputation is turning a lot browner. Last year, E-mailing consumed as much as 1.5 percent of the nation’s electricity—half of which comes from coal.
In 2005 the computers of the world ate up 123 billion kilo-watt hours of energy. As a result, the power bill to run a computer over its lifetime will surpass the cost of buying the machine in the first place—giving Internet and computer companies a business reason to cut energy costs, as well as an environmental one. One of the biggest energy sinks comes not from the computers themselves but from the air-conditioning needed to keep them from overheating. For every kilowatt-hour of energy used for computing in a data center, another kilowatt-hour is required to cool the furnace like racks of servers.
For Internet giant Google, this reality has driven efforts such as the installation of a solar array that can provide 30 percent of the peak power needs of its headquarters as well as increasing purchases of renewable energy. But to deliver Web pages within seconds, the firm must maintain hundreds of thousands of computer servers in cavernous buildings. "We are actively working to maximize the efficiency of our data centers, which account for most of the energy Google consumes worldwide." remarks Google’s green energy czar Bill Weihl. Google will funnel some of its profits into a new effort, dubbed RE
In the meantime, the industry as a whole has employed a few tricks to save watts. Efforts include rearranging the stacks of servers and the mechanics of their cooling, and using software to create multiple "virtual" computers, rather than having to deploy several real ones. Such virtualization has allowed computer maker Hewlett-Packard to consolidate 86 data centers spread throughout the world to just three, with three backups, says Pat Tiernan, the firm’s vice president of social and environmental responsibility.
The industry is also tackling the energy issue at the computer-chip level. Chipmakers such as Intel and AMD have shifted to so-called multi-core technology, which packs multiple processors into one circuit rather than separating them. "When we moved to multi-core and throttled down microprocessors, the energy savings were pretty substantial," says Allyson Klein, Intel’s marketing manager. Chipmakers continue to shrink circuits on the nanoscale as well, which "means a chip needs less electricity" to deliver the same performance, she adds.
Which of the following is true of changes at the computer-chip level?
选项
A、The multi-core technology helps separate the multiple processors.
B、The multi-core technology helps save the energy substantially.
C、Circuits on the nanoscale could save energy by sacrificing performance.
D、Circuits have been shrunk on the nanoscale in order to be lighter.
答案
B
解析
推理判断题。该段③句引述Allyson Klein的原话“如果能成功转向多核芯片,这将节约大量能源”.理解关键在于savings…were substantial,其中substantial意为“大量的”,故B项与之相符。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/zmsZ777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
[A]Whattodoasastudent[B]Variousdefinitionsofplagiarism[C]Ideasshouldalwaysbesourced[D]Ignorancecanbeforgiven[
You’venowhearditsomanytimes,youcanprobablyrepeatitinyoursleep.PresidentObamawillnodoubtmakethepointpublic
WholesalepricesinJulyrosemoresharplythanexpectedandatafasterratethanconsumerprices,【C1】______thatbusinesseswer
Inthispart,youareaskedtowriteanessayaccordingtotheinformationbelow.Youshouldwritemorethan150wordsneatlyon
Large,multinationalcorporationsmaybethecompanieswhoseupsanddownsseizeheadlines.Buttoafargreaterextentthanmos
Itiseasiertonegotiateinitialsalaryrequirementbecauseonceyouareinside,theorganizationalconstraintsinfluencewage
Thefollowingparagraphsaregiveninawrongorder.ForQuestions41-45,youarerequiredtoreorganizetheseparagraphsinto
CompaniesarelobbyinghardtoremovetheEU’straceabilityandlabelingpoliciesforproductscontainingGMingredients.Br
GivenalltheroilingdebatesabouthowAmerica’schildrenshouldbetaught,itmaycomeasasurprisetolearnthatstudentssp
Itisonlynaturalforleaderstotrytomakethemostoftheirstrengths.Thetheoryofcomparativeadvantagedirectspeople,a
随机试题
颐和园中的谐趣园是所仿的名园是()。
俄国“自然派”的创始者是【】
Theteamleader,withtheelevenplayers,______excellent.
在临床应用中,岁差运动DSA主要用于
A、1年B、2年C、3年D、4年E、5年医疗机构药品检验的原始记录至少保存
美术教科书应充分展现美术学习的有关过程与方法,以利于增强学生的学习()
辩证唯物主义认为,新事物必须代替旧事物,新事物和旧事物相互区别的根本标志在于()。
心理旋转实验采用的反应时法是
嵌入式系统对实时性和可靠性通常都有一定要求,如果把POS机和数码相机两者进行比较,它们中对实时性要求较高的是【41】,对可靠性要求较高的是【42】。
(1)考生文件夹中有工程文件sjt3.vbp。其窗体上已有部分控件。在窗体上添加含有两个单选钮的控件数组,其名称为Option1,单选按钮的下标分别为0、1,Caption属性分别为“驱动器为C”及“列txt文件”,如图3-12所示。运行程序时,驱动器列表
最新回复
(
0
)