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ComRent, a load bank rental solutions and services company has announced the development of its CRLS 11.5 rack-mounted load bank system, which it says allows for a more accurate validation test compared to using floor standing load banks for CRAC...
Cooling experts say minor adjustments to fan speed in air handling units can yield major savings, and in many cases can be more cost-effective than installing containment systems to control airflow.
Many of the world's most powerful supercomputers are striking not just for their processing abilities, but for their design and appearance as well. Here's a look at the top finishers in the latest Top 500 list, which was released Monday at the...
Is "preventive maintenance" not really that preventive after all? In the data center, where human error is a leading cause of downtime, a vigorous maintenance schedule can actually make a facility less reliable, according to several speakers at...
News from SC11: IBM announces Blue Gene/Q, Cray enters storage market and touts Open ACC, Extreme Networks (EXTR) and Schneider Electric provide infrastructure for SC11 conference.
At the Supercomputing 2011 conference Tuesday Fusion-io (FIO) announced the 10 TB ioDrive Octal, delivering up to 20 Terabytes (TB) of flash-based acceleration in a 1U server, such as the Supermicro SuperServer 6016GT-TF.
When it comes to reliability, diesel generators are far and away the most important pieces of equipment in a data center, and regulatory mandates on fuel may be creating new problems that could raise generator failure rates, according to Steve Fa...
Arista Networks announced four new switches to its 7050 Series family and Arista EOS software enhancements that address the most demanding needs in cloud computing environments.
AOL runs about 60,000 servers, Manos said, which are spread across five primary data centers in North America and Europe. "We're talking about dramatically reforming what was one of the world's largest Internet companies," said Manos
NCSA and Cray announced that they have finalized a contract with the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to provide the supercomputer for the National Science Foundation's Blue Waters project.