Jun 15, 2010

Intel supercomputer uses 75% less power and space

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These machines have 512 Intel Atom processors, — all in a server that is just 17.5 inches high, or about a quarter of the space of a typical server rack. It requires no custom software and works in "plug and play" manner with any x86 (Intel-compatible) server data center. You can use x86 or other architecture chips as well, such as ARM

If you ran a bunch of servers at 100 percent capacity for four years in order to hit a computing task target known as Specint 100,000, you would spend about $1.5 million using Dell servers. Using SeaMicro, you would spend about $428,000. That's more than $1 million in savings -

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