It may look like a regular server, but the SeaMicro SM10000 hides a surprising choice of CPU behind its mesh door. Rather than the Intel Xeon chip or two you might expect to find, the SM10000 actually gets a full 512 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530 chips squeezed into a 10U rack-mount unit. Capable, SeaMicro reckon, of replacing forty 1U regular servers, the SM10000 also uses one quarter of the power.
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SeaMicro SM10000 server uses 512 Atom CPUs
Excito Bubba Two: home server the size of a paperback
All the way back in early 2007 we mentioned Excito's Bubba super-compact home server, a palm-sized FTP, media and backup store, and now the company has updated things with the Excito Bubba Two. As before, it's pretty darn small - 4.5 x 1.8 x 7 inches - and, since the enclosure is fanless, quiet too; choose an SSD model and it's silent. For basic users it can be as straightforward as plug-and-play, whereas for those who prefer tinkering the full Debian Linux underpinnings are available to muck about with.
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SlashGear HP Data Vault X510 Giveaway!
If there's one thing we love more than reviewing top tech kit here at SlashGear it's giving it away to our readers, and HP have come through with some brilliant hardware that's up for grabs. They've offered an HP Data Vault X510 Windows Home Server - equally at home managing your multimedia library as it is acting as a centric backup store for all the computers on your network - worth around $700 for one lucky SlashGear reader, together with a number of other tempting prizes.
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GuruPlug Server Plus boosts Sheevaplug, adds eSATA & more
Remember Marvell's third-gen Sheevaplug? The newest server-in-a-wall-wart made its debut at CES 2010 last month, adding WiFi and Bluetooth along with a faster, more capable chipset. As we saw before, the core Sheevaplug design often prompts some interesting third-party versions, and one such mini-server is Globalscale's GuruPlug Server Plus. It takes the basics of the Sheevaplug and throws in an eSATA port, a second gigabit ethernet port and a microSD card slot.
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PlugPBX turns Marvell SheevaPlug into Asterisk VoIP system
Skype did a great job of pushing VoIP into the mainstream, but if you've considered graduating up from their closed platform to a more open, flexible system such as the open-source Asterisk project then you may have found it all a bit intimidating. How about a straightforward VoIP system served up by a low-power, super-simple Marvell SheevaPlug instead? The PlugPBX project promises just that: a custom Asterisk/FreePBX VoIP build designed to drop straight onto a SheevaPlug.
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VIA M’SERV S2100 home mini server arrives
One of the reasons we have a soft-spot for VIA is that they eat their own dogfood: not only do they produce processors, mainboards and other chipsets, they also put out a range of products (often to OEMs rather than end-users) that actually use them. Latest is the VIA M'SERV S2100, a boxy little server intended for home and small business users that's powered by the VIA Nano CPU.
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Marvell Plug Computer 3.0 updates SheevaPlug with WiFi, Bluetooth, HDD
Marvell have announced a new version of their SheevaPlug always-on microserver, the Marvell Plug Computer 3.0. The compact computer now gets integrated WiFi and Bluetooth, rather than just wired ethernet connectivity, together with a built-in hard-drive of unspecified capacity; Marvell have also given it a faster CPU, in the shape of the 2GHz Armada 300 processor.
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Joker Racer R/C Server adds internet-based control [Video]
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 Microserver open-standard planned
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.
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Dell datacenter-in-a-briefcase prototype demo’d [Video]
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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Colfax offers rackmount CXT8000 servers with up to 8 Tesla GPUs
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.
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Microsoft acquire ICS parallel computing specialist
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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