Sun Microsystems Goes Green

Sun Microsystems Germany announced today their "Sun Eco Tour 2007".

The tour, using a hybrid bicycle called the Eco-Rider and piloted by journalist Martin Müller, "will showcase companies, organizations, cities and communities that promote eco-responsibility". The tour, under Suns "global social-responsibility campaign" will stop in 10 locations throughout Germany and ends at the Urban Sustainability Conference in Berlin on September 9.

The Eco-Rider © Sun 2007

The tours official start is at the Dreseden International Super Computing Conference on June 25. Subsequently the tour will also be used to highlight the Sun Ultra SPARC T1 processor

"32 Threads in 2 Square Inches

The UltraSPARC T1 processor with CoolThreads technology is the highest-throughput and most eco-responsible processor ever created. It's a breakthrough discovery for reducing data center energy consumption, while dramatically increasing throughput. Its 32 simultaneous processing threads, drawing about as much power as a light bulb, give you the best performance per watt of any processor available."

A blog highlighting the tour can be found at http://www.im-strom-der-zeit.de/. It is , however, in German.