[LINK] "Green" servers
Marghanita da Cruz
marghanita at ramin.com.au
Mon Apr 28 09:04:33 AEST 2008
Richard Chirgwin wrote:
> Linkers,
>
> "Green" computing has come up on Link before, I noted with interest a
> story on The Register about low-powered servers:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/27/small_data_center/
>
>> Witness the OpenMicroServer, which this week went on sale
>> <http://www.plathome.com/products/microserver/oms/index.html> to North
>> American folk. It's 9 inches by 4 inches by 1.3 inches. The system has
>> built-in Power over Ethernet and can run fanless at up to 122°F over
>> long periods of time. CRAC units need not apply. It also sports a pair
>> of Gigabit Ethernet ports, a 100Mb port, a pair of USB ports and a
>> pair of serial ports.
>>
>> The unit runs the SSD Linux operating system, which straps NetBSD
>> userland functions onto the Linux kernel.
>>
>> Okay, okay. We'll grant you that the system limps along on a single
>> 400MHz (AMD/Raza) Alchemy MIPS chip.
> (etc)
>
> I'll be interested to see how this market plays out!
>
I couldn't see any mention of storage.
Marghanita
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