The Green500 List: Year one

The latest release of the Green500 List in November 2008 marked its one-year anniversary. As such, this paper aims to provide an analysis and retrospective examination of the Green500 List in order to understand how the list has evolved and what trends have emerged. In addition, we present community feedback on the Green500 List, particularly from two Green500 birds-of-a-feather (BoF) sessions at the International Supercomputing Conference in June 2008 and SC|08 in November 2008, respectively.