Radio-controlled cars might not seem the most obvious place to mount a server, but JokerWorks disagree: the company has unveiled what they’re calling the world’s first Linux server for R/C cars, the Joker Racer R/C Server, easily allowing for remote internet-linked control. To keep things simple, the Joker Racer unit hooks up to the standard servo cables already in the R/C car, together with an off-the-shelf webcam.
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Intel are readying a new standard for so-called “microservers“, based on the company’s prototype targeted at low-traffic websites. The open standard would describe a royalty-free, compact alternative to blade servers – powered by Intel processors, naturally – which combines both low idle power draw and fast response times. Intel’s current prototype has a 1.86GHz quad-core Lynnfield processor paired with four memory slots.
Remember the talk of datacenters-in-containers last year and earlier? Google were even tipped to have patented the idea; now, though, a datacenter is simply too large to be fashionable, hence Dell’s datacenter-in-a-briefcase. To be fair, it’s not quite the briefcase you might take on your daily commute – think 40lb toolcase instead – but that’s still good enough to impress GigaOm.
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For a lot of year the discrete GPU was looked at as something that was mostly only of use to gamers looking to extract all of the performance they could out of their video games. Over the last few years, NVIDIA and AMD both began to position their GPUs as processors for tasks traditionally handled by the CPU for higher performance. Colfax has unveiled a new rack mount server that takes the GPGPU and crams eight of the parts inside a single 4U server called the CXT8000.
Microsoft have confirmed that they have acquired Interactive Supercomputing (ISC), a desktop parallel computing specialist. The company plan to integrate ISC’s technology into its desktop and cluster high-performance computer solutions; meanwhile they will support existing users of ISC’s Star-P parallel computer modelling software, though no further versions of the app will be developed or released.
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It seems pretty clear-cut that Microsoft are going to get plenty of stick for their latest software vulnerability - and their fix for it - after the company's Security Response Center admitted that SMBv2 (Server Message Block version 2) could leave a system vulnerable to remote takeover. Microsoft's fix for Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7? Turn it off.
The SSD certainly offers better performance than the average HDD in computer systems of all types today. The big problem for consumers is that the SSD still commands a significant premium over normal HDDs while offering significantly less storage space. This is the main reason that the SSD is more common in enterprise computing than in consumer machines. HP has announced that it is now incorporating SSDs into some of its enterprise server systems.
Details and fuzzy live shots of ASUS’ upcoming Home Server have leaked, and while there’s no official word from the company themselves this looks like the kind of compact storage we would happily find space for on our bookshelves. The 9.6 x 3.8 x 8 inch ASUS Home Server TS mini packs twin 3.5-inch hard-drives together with a fulsome six USB 2.0 ports and two eSATA ports.
Streaming media around a home or office is a great way to share entertainment that can be controlled and stored on one central server. A company called Envive offers several streaming content servers called TheaterStation along with clients that allow music and video to be streamed to more than one location.
In a welcome change from reams of press release to wade through, Lenovo have tipped their upcoming home server and nettops via Twitter: 140 characters of spec-free mystery. The IdeaCentre D400 home server and IdeaCentre Q100/Q110 nettops are yet to make an appearance on the Lenovo US site, but according to the company will get an announcement sometime this week. However that hasn’t stopped details from popping up across the web.
After the cut: details on the D400 specs and why the IdeaCentre Q100/Q110 are rebadged Pegatron nettops
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