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- A frame or cabinet into which hardware components are mounted. Equipment may be bolted into the rack see rack mounted, or placed on shelves. Stereo and home theater...
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- A Layman's Explanation of the Role of IT Racks in Cooling Your Data Center
- Unless it is an actively cooled rack (i.e. one with a cooling coil, which looks like a radiator), the rack is a passive player in the thermal system. The amount of IT systems the rack can "Cool" depends on the room's ability to deliver adequate temperature air to the rack....
- White papers 2009-06-01
- From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
- Continuing the Wintel data center tour - this time looking at the hardware and licensed software these guys look after. by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
- Enabling Location Based Services in Data Centers Via Wireless USB Radios
- Major data centers routinely sport several tens of thousands of "Assets" (servers, switches, storage bricks, etc.) that usually go into standard slots in a rack or a chassis that fits the rack. These assets may move around for a variety of reasons including replacement, SW patching, manual reorganization, etc. The...
- White papers 2008-02-24
- Project Kittyhawk: Building a Global-Scale Computer
- This paper describes Project Kittyhawk, an undertaking at IBM Research to explore the construction of a next-generation platform capable of hosting many simultaneous web-scale workloads. The paper hypothesize that for a large class of web-scale workloads the Blue Gene/P platform is an order of magnitude more efficient to purchase and...
- White papers 2007-11-13
- India data center deploys HP cooling technology
- Hewlett-Packard has scored another real-world deployment of its Dynamic Smart Cooling technology, which became commercially available earlier this month. The project, located in Bangalore, India, consolidates 14 different research lab data centers into a 70,000-square-foot high density facility. The technology within the lab consolidates a mix of...
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- Google's 650,000-core warehouse-size computer
- My quad-core tower suddenly feels wimpy What does it take to power the world's most popular search engine? Lots of CPU cycles. Which is just what Google's new data centers provide. No one is talking, thanks to Google's tight NDA policy, but with satellite imagery and some deft...
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- The UltraSPARC T2 and file security
- Almost two years ago I predicted that Sun's then pending T1 and subsequent T2 CMT machines would offer throughput levels roughly comparable to x86 machines producing the number of cycles you'd get multiplying Sun's CMT megahertz by their thread count -i.e that a T1 would produce roughly the throughput...
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- ADDER Case Study: Ontario Provincial Police
- The OPP Electronic Crime Section set out to source 4 new dual video servers for each member of the staff. These servers would be used in conjunction with 2 desktop PCs and 2 notebook computers. The new requirements called for an 8-port KVM switch solution that was capable of handling...
- Case studies 2007-04-01
- Minicom Improves Leading Financial Company's Server Room
- A global financial services company is one of the 200 largest companies in the world. A server room contained a large number of racks managed by legacy KVM switches. The racks can only be accessed by cumbersome crash carts. The legacy KVM switches use a mass of cables, creating clutter...
- Case studies 2007-02-19
- Build an affordable 32 gigabit network for the datacenter
- Build an affordable 32 gigabit network for the datacenterCool stuff.Something I don't normally have to think about at the manufacturing level, but still something I might want to look at for future reference. Quite the pricey hardware being used though.You have a cheaper alternative?I'd love to find an alternative...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-17
- The long green
- The long greenPower MathThese very same power and cooling costs have kept the blade server from becoming the next great thing. The idea is sound - make servers as small as possible and make it easy to add more when you need to. In practice, the hundreds of power and...
- Discussion threads 2006-10-04
- New servers join Dell line
- Dell's got new rack and tower servers that feature Intel's new dual-core processors and a screen to indicate when something's awry.
- Image galleries 2006-06-06
- Ten Solutions to Solving Cooling Problems Caused by High Density Server Deployment
- The requirement to deploy high-density servers within single racks is presenting data center managers with a challenge. Vendors are now designing servers that will demand up to 20kW of cooling if installed in a single rack. With most data centers designed to cool an average of no more than 2kW...
- White papers 2006-02-01
- The lesson in POD configuration
- We all talk about the cost of computers: $3,495 for an entry level T1000 or $745 for the base X2100, but it's important to remember that this is rackmount gear that needs quite a lot of support infrastructure before you can really use it. That infrastructure, unfortunately, has not...
- Blog posts 2006-01-23
- Making big iron from lots of little iron
- Making big iron from lots of little ironMaking big iron from lots of little ironCorrect me if I'm wrong here, but doesn't the 16 processor server perform better than the 8 dual processor servers clusted because of the I/O in the hardware?Don't get me wrong, saving 1/3rd is quite a...
- Discussion threads 2004-12-16
- IBM's Blue Gene/L goes on sale
- IBM's Blue Gene/L goes on salea little misleadingthis story was written a bit misleading until i looked closer. I thought it said the Blue Gene configuration for lawrence Livermore was being sold for a total of 1.5 million. Thats ultra cheap. Looking at it closer, its 1.5...
- Discussion threads 2004-11-08
- "emWord Stack" 1.0 (Mobile)
- emWord Stack is an excellent and unique game for your Pocket PC to improve swiftness, word power. You have to fill the racks with right alphabets and form the words. The stacks of alphabets available at the top in the game display are your sources for making words in the...
- Software downloads 2003-08-09
- "emWord Stack" for Pocket PC 2002 / 2003 1.0 (Mobile)
- Developed to be compatible for WINDOWS MOBILE EDITION 2003 devices.emWord Stack is an excellent and unique game for your Pocket PC to improve swiftness, word power. You have to fill the racks with right alphabets and form the words. The stacks of alphabets available at the top (in the game...
- Software downloads 2003-08-09
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- Sound Byte 3.9.6 (Windows)
- Sound Byte turns your computer into a card machine. It is very similar to the so-called cart machines used at radio stations in the past. Each recording - a song, jingle, advertisement, etc, was on a cartidge, which could be quickly selected and played. Sound Byte brings the cart machine...
- Software downloads 2009-11-06
- Sound Byte 3.9.6 (Mac)
- Sound Byte is a computerized cart machine for the Macintosh. It is very similar to the so-called cart machines used at radio stations in the past. Each recording - a song, jingle, advertisement, etc, was on a cartidge, which could be quickly selected and played. Sound Byte brings the cart...
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
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