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RLX goes for Dell-spoiler with 6G blades
News The company also launched two 1U high rack-mounted servers; the entry-level RM1100 with single processor, up to 4GB of memory and two SATA disk drives; and the RM1400 which comes with dual Xeon EM64T processors, up to four SCSI disk drives and 8GB...
[November 15, 2004, 14:05]
Server startup banking on novel design
News For one thing, the server has a special "BladePlane", a high-speed connection that substitutes for the profusion of network, power and storage system cables that complicate current rack-mounted servers.
[May 3, 2001, 8:46]
IBM readies its first quad-core servers
News The x3650, a 3.5-inch-thick rack-mounted machine with a starting price of $2,419 (£1,265) The x3550, a 1.75-inch-thick rack-mounted machine with a starting price of $2,369. IBM next week will begin selling its first servers with quad-core...
[November 10, 2006, 7:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There is a gin rack - like a wine rack, but filled with Bombay Sapphire - and a fridge called the Pussy Deluxe. Wednesday 27/7/2005 And talking of sex in the media, this evening sees myself and a small gaggle of compadres descend on a large...
[July 29, 2005, 18:30]
'New' HP unveils hardware lineup
News Each new DS20L rack-mountable server contains two 833MHz Alpha EV68 processors and up to 2GB of memory. Companies can fit as many as 40 DS20L servers, costing about $18,000 each, into a single 6.5-foot-tall rack, the company said.
[May 29, 2002, 8:48]
Dell PowerEdge T710 review
Reviews Four Gigabit Ethernet NIC ports sit in the rear panel, along with a remote management network port and an SD slot: all are identical in function to those of the rack-mount edition. This 35kg server with its swing-out feet feels solidly built and...
[September 21, 2009, 10:16]
IBM supercomputer achieves petaflop
News Thirty-two of these boards can be stuffed into a six-foot-high rack. Hitting three petaflops takes an 884,736-processor and 216-rack cluster, according to IBM. The petaflop era has begun. IBM has devised a new Blue Gene supercomputer — the Blue...
[June 26, 2007, 10:29]
Big Blue breaks 36 Teraflop barrier to take supercomputing speed lead
News Although the 64-rack Blue Gene/L that IBM is building for the Livermore lab is the largest, the company also has sold a six-rack system to the Astron Dutch radio telescope project, a one-rack system to Argonne National Laboratory and a four-rack...
[September 30, 2004, 10:55]
IDF: Banias ends the megahertz madness for Intel
News As demand rises for large farms of servers doling out Web pages at an immense rate, companies have shown increasing interest in high-density computing, including rack-optimised servers and, more recently, server "blades" that can fit dozens of...
[August 29, 2001, 10:59]
Blade PCs: the ultimate managed desktops review
Reviews ClearCube's solution is built around a rack-mounted blade chassis There are two chassis types: the 3U R4300, which houses eight R-series blades, and the 6U A3000, which houses ten A-series blades — each blade being essentially a powerful PC.
[July 3, 2007, 11:44]
Nocona leads Intel's charge into 64-bit
News Dell will release four models: the stand-alone 1800 and 2800 and the rack-mountable PowerEdge 1850 and 2850. The 1850 is 1.75 inches thick (1 rack unit, or 1U), while the 2850, with more storage space, is 3.5 inches (2U).
[August 2, 2004, 10:25]
Don't hold your breath for blade standards
News But you look back at the development of rack-based servers and there have been many form factors before we reached the 19 inch standard, but in a rack you have a complete system that is completely self-contained.
[November 15, 2004, 15:55]
New CPUs fuel server competition
News Large servers will gradually give way, first to rack-mounted blade servers, then by a new generation of "servers on a chip," which will take IBM's notion of multiple processors and other system components on a single chip of silicon to the next...
[April 17, 2002, 15:11]
Resolving to advance
News Alternatively, some candidates buy their own rack of Cisco equipment to model the lab exam. One of the most popular options for CCIE candidates is to rent a rack of CCIE lab equipment, connect to that rack over the Internet, and use practice labs...
[January 5, 2006, 14:50]
Break free from virtual bondage
News CPU cores in one rack, and the best [power consumption] you could get today for that would be about 22kW to 25kW. Three systems in a standard rack would add up to 1,250 cores, with 800GB of memory, consuming about 9kW.
[November 23, 2005, 16:10]
Start-up brings 'blades' to the desktop
News Rather than sit on a desk or remain stacked horizontally in a rack, blades slide vertically into a specialised rack that contains all the wiring necessary to hook the computers into the network. One business-process patent, for instance, applies to...
[September 23, 2002, 8:27]
10 things you should know about deploying technology in harsh environments
News Just like in the data room, where you can extend a server out of a rack, you should be able to do the same from the enclosure in the remote environment. Many full-specification rack enclosures allow you to mount standard servers and fully extend...
[May 8, 2006, 14:55]
Intel unleashes Tulsa in battle with AMD
News The 6800 is a free-standing model, and the 6850 is rack-mounted. For example, the rack-mounted DL580 with dual processors and 4GB of memory costs $8,297 and a similarly configured free-standing ML570 costs $7,477.
[August 30, 2006, 9:25]
Fatty! Lite
Downloads Can Fatty maintain a healthy weight while you rack up the points? Help Fatty eat by moving your finger at the bottom of the screen so Fatty can catch food in his mouth. Watch his weight though, if Fatty eats too many of his favorite foods and tops...
[January 4, 2010, 5:49]
Fatty!
Downloads Can Fatty maintain a healthy weight while you rack up the points? Help Fatty eat by moving your finger at the bottom of the screen so Fatty can catch food in his mouth. Watch his weight though, if Fatty eats too many of his favorite foods and tops...
[January 4, 2010, 5:49]
