Entries tagged with servers - Channel 10

New Supercomputer For Only 25K

sarahintampa — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:54:00 GMT

According to Tina Couch on the Windows Server blog, Microsoft and Cray have recently teamed up to offer a very affordable supercomputer designed just for departmental and workgroup needs like those in offices, labs, and university departments. This new supercomputer, the Cray CX1, runs Windows HPC Server 2008. (The HPC Server 2008 SKU itself becomes available September 22nd). It incorporates up to 8 nodes and 16 Intel Xeon processors, either dual or quad core, delivers up to 64 gigabytes of memory per node, and provides up to 4 terabytes of internal storage. Systems can be configured with a mix of compute, storage and visualization blades to meet individual requirements. It will also interoperate with Linux. The CX1 server starts at $25,000 and will be available for order on Amazon.com.

Life|ware Launches New Media Servers

sarahintampa — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:34:00 GMT

At this year's CEDIA EXPO, the show put on by the trade association of home theater companies, Lifeware launched a brand-new, all-in-one, Lifemedia Server (LMS). This new server combines Windows Media Center with a 5.1 surround-sound amplifier and ZigBee control technology all within a single box. The LMS-170 line of media servers with ZigBee built in will allow the servers to communicate directly with Centralite's JetStream products, including dimmers, modules and switches. Whereas before they had to install a bridge in order to get the systems talking, the new servers will have direct communication.

There will be two models of the new server expected in the 1st quarter of 2009: the LMS-175 which will support dual Cable Cards (less than $4000) and the LMS-172 which has dual NTSC/ATSC tuners but no Cable Card support. No word on its price yet, only that it will be the less expensive of the two.

If you want to learn more about Life|ware, check out some of our earlier posts - we’ve mentioned them many times here on Channel 10. I reviewed their Home Automation software back in December, Nic visited them at CES 2008 and recorded footage of their e-home setup, and, more recently, Laura looked at their inclusion in Disney’s new Innovations Dream Home.

(Image courtesy of cepro.com)

Microsoft Data Centers - getting bigger and better

Tina — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:36:00 GMT

I sit down with Michael Manos the senior director of Data Center Services here at Microsoft. Microsoft is building some massive facilities in various places around the world. It houses everything from Live to Hotmail. Can you imagine a building 1.3 miles big? And its full of thousands and thousands of servers. He talks about effeciency for environmental reasons and how Microsoft is going green.