Village Tronic ViBook: Multi-Monitor For Your Netbook
Once you've used a multi-monitor setup, it's almost impossible to go back to a single screen. Notebook users likely feel this pain most sharply. However, Village Tronic's ViBook proposes a USB-based solution for the folks looking for more display space. Read More
-
Killer Xeno Pro: Do You Really Need A Gaming Network Card?
Bigfoot Networks has updated its gaming Network Processing Units to support PCI Express connectivity. The new Killer Xeno Pro has a lot of new features, but can it really deliver higher performance for a gamer? We test the new card in order to find out. Read More
-
ADVERTORIAL Microsoft BPOS: Taking Action
Moving to Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite quickly and smoothly may require the help of a qualified advisor. That's an opportunity for potential BPOS customers and those who want to become BPOS advisors. Read More
Partners
The Games selection
violent :
Interactive Buddy
Unwind on your interactive buddy: Do anything you want to him, it will earn you money, and you can buy other stuff to torture him with.
|
crazy :
PC Breakdown
What is worst than a Fatal Error occuring during a game you did not save? Unleash your rage at your PC in this game. Blow it to pieces, it feels so...
|
Sponsored links
Sun Ships 18 TFlops Datacenter In A Box
Next newsSanta Clara (CA) - Sun's Project Blackbox is shipping, literally: Now called the Modular Datacenter S20, Blackbox is a datacenter built into a 20 ft container that is sent to customers via ship or airplane. Sun promises that the S20 not only can bring deployment time down to as little as 22 days, but can also reduce cooling needs by as much as 40%.
Blackbox made some waves as rather unusual datacenter concept last year and apparently has attracted enough interest to convince Sun to make the system generally available. According to the company, a Blackbox demo system was taken to 73 cities worldwide over the past year, where the containers were toured by more than 12,000 people. Initial customers include Hansen Transmissions, a turbine manufacturer in Belgium, the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center as well as a Russian telecom company.
Darlene Yaplee, vice president for integrated platform marketing at Sun, told TG Daily that, depending on the configuration, the S20 can reach a performance of 18 TFlops and offer as much as 3 PB of storage space. The container can house eight 19" racks (320 RU total) with a depth of 30.75", with seven racks (280 RU) running at full load. The remaining 40 RU are reserved for network equipment (25 RU) and monitoring and management of the system (15 RU). The power consumption is rated at up to 25 kW per rack under full load and at 12.5 kW per regular rack. The S20 is cooled using a water cooling system that requires external water connectivity and runs at 45 to 65 gallons per minute.
Servers supported by the S20 include 27 different Sun models, including the Fire V-series, the Fire T1000/2000- and E-series, the Fire 4000 and 5000-series, Netra servers, as well as the Fire X2000- and X4000 series.
According to Yaplee, initial customers have been able to deploy the S20 system in as little as 22 days and are using this system for application areas such as disaster recovery and datacenter center expansion. Typically, the S20 container is placed right next to existing datacenters, Yaplee said.
Pricing for the datacenter in a box starts at $559,000.
Source : Tom's Hardware US