IBM ranks first in climate change strategies
In a December 2008 report published by the Ceres investor coalition, IBM was named the top company for climate change strategy and practices across all major technology and consumer companies. The report analyzed climate change governance practices at 63 of the world's largest retail, pharmaceutical, technology, apparel and other consumer-facing companies.
Other companies across various industries that ranked almost as high in the study as IBM were Tesco, Dell, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, and Nike. (By comparison, some other technology companies, such as HP, were not even in the top 10.)
The report came out a little more than a month after another study, by Gartner and WWF Sweden, gave IBM high marks among 24 IT companies for the way the company manages climate change across its business operations.
Energy-efficient supercomputers put IBM ahead
A November 2008 report looked at the top 500 supercomputers in the world to determine which were the most energy-efficient. The study found that, of the top 20 on the list, all were built with IBM's high-performance computing technology.
The "Green500" list of the world's top 500 supercomputers—normally ranked by speed, which IBM also dominates more than any other systems maker, with the number one spot for the last nine reports, and with 21 of the top 50 fastest and 33 of the top 100—was published by The Green500.org, which began its rankings in 2007 to highlight the need for energy-efficiency in high-performance computing. In fact, the world's fastest supercomputer (from IBM) requires half the energy of the second-fastest (from Cray).
Of the entire list, IBM's supercomputers averaged 135.58 megaflops per watt, well above the 76.34 megaflops per watt average of the non-IBM systems listed and more than double that of HP's total system energy-efficiency average of 57.22 megaflops per watt.
