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Facebook open source data centre project gains strength
Facebook's year-old project to develop open source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centres gained momentum on yesterday, with some top technology companies joining the effort and introducing server designs.
09 May 2012
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Rover Turns to Supercomputing Power in Moon Race
A robotic rover aims to win a $30 million race to the moon by harnessing the same computing power driving today's fastest supercomputers. The graphics processing units (GPUs) made by NVIDIA would help the "Asimov" lunar rover roll safely across the lunar surface, report back its activities in real-time, and even create gorgeous lunar maps from 3D images sent back to Earth.
29 March 2012
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What system builders need to know about solid state drives
If you are building systems using solid state drives (SSDs), you need rock-solid reliability and performance – and you won't get it from consumer-grade flash. But how do you know if the drives you choose are enterprise-grade? Find out more right here!
29 March 2012
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Onwards and Upwards
After a year of recovery in 2010, the Indian storage market began to pick up steam and high single digit growth is expected in 2012 with trends including the ongoing move from DAS to networked storage by SMBs, increased adoption of storage virtualization, growing uptake of disk-based backup, the emergence of Cloud storage and the dawn of Big Data.
26 March 2012
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Boston's Hardcore LSS 200 blade server is oil cooled
We've seen a fair few whacky cooling solutions over the years, but a server cooled by mineral oil is a new one to us, even though it's hardly a new idea in itself. Boston was demoing a small unit of its Hardcore LSS 200 blade server solution at CeBIT which uses custom made enclosures for the slim-line Super Micro blade motherboards, but things are a lot more complex than that.
14 March 2012
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Boston teams up with Asetek to deliver water cooled workstation
It's fairly likely that you've never heard of Boston Ltd, a UK distributor and white box server and workstation manufacturer. The company has teamed up with Danish Asetek to deliver a fully water cooled workstation using Asetek's famous water cooling solutions with four Nvidia cards and two brand spanking new Intel Xeon E5 processors.
09 March 2012
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Boston reveals next generation Intel Xeon E5-2600-series solutions
At Cebit 2012 Boston is revealing the Boston Quattro 1264-TL, the a new range of high performance servers that harnesses the power of Intel’s latest Xeon E5-2600-series processors and Supermicro’s high-density 2U Twin server architecture.
09 March 2012
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Introducing the New MACH16 Slim SATA SSD
Connected embedded devices and user/data logging requirements are driving new demands for more storage in small form-factor embedded systems. STEC's new MACH16 Slim SATA embedded SSD is a small, simple and efficient solid-state storage solution that enables system designers to shrink the total embedded storage footprint by 60 percent, while consuming up to 70 percent less power than an HDD or conventional SSD.
06 March 2012
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Toshiba buys part of WD's HDD business
Toshiba will acquire part of Western Digital's 3.5-inch HDD (hard-disk drive) production equipment and related intellectual property, in return for the Japanese IT vendor's 2.5-inch HDD manufacturing facility in Thailand.
05 March 2012
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Intel's Xeon E5 is already in the channel says Boston
CHIPMAKER Intel is finally set to launch its Xeon E5 chips next week with server and workstation vendors keen to show it isn't going to be a paper launch and that chips are already in the channel.
02 March 2012
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