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sammcj writes:
HP's server design packs 288 Calxeda chips into a 4U rack-mount server, or 2,800 in a full rack, with a shared power, cooling, and management infrastructure. By eliminating much of the cabling and switching devices used in traditional servers and using the low-power ARM processors, HP says it can reduce both power and space requirements dramatically.
The Redstone platform uses a 4U (7-inch) rack-mount server chassis. Inside, HP has put 72 small server boards, each with four Calxeda processors, 4GB of RAM and 4MB of L2 cache. Each processor, based on the ARM Cortex-A9 design, runs at 1.4GHz and has its own 80 gigabit cross-bar switch built into the chip
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sammcj writes:
2011 Macbook crashing under heavy load?... you are not alone. While trying to figure out what was wrong with my fancy new Macbook I soon realised that the issue is very wide spread.
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sammcj writes:
Dear Slashdot,
I work at a public hospital in the computer / technical department and (amongst others) was recently outraged by an email that was sent round our department:
‘(XXXX) District Health Board — Information Services is strategically a Microsoft shop and when talking to staff/customers we are to support this strategy. I no longer want to see comments promoting other Operating Systems.’
We have also been told to remove Firefox found on anyone’s computer unless they have specific authorisation from management to have it installed under special circumstances.
Now, I could somewhat understand this if I was working in a company that on-sold and promoted the use of Microsoft software for a financial gain, but I work in the publicly / government funded health system.
Since starting work here several years ago, I have personally found that the ‘Microsoft Strategic Direction’ that the DHB has taken has done almost nothing but waste (millions of) taxpayers’ dollars. Several of the ‘IT Big-Wigs’ at the DHB are seemingly blindly pro-Microsoft and seem all too quick to shrug off other, perhaps more efficient alternatives (I’m guessing this is at least partly for their own job security).
I feel that as technicians / engineers we have been somewhat ‘silenced’ by statements as the one above. I often have users come to me and ask what I recommend for their home computer or what I think about running Windows XP on almost all of our 8500~ clients – Am I meant to lie to them – or just say nothing?
As a taxpayer, I want nothing more than to see our health systems improve and run more efficiently. I am not foolish enough to say all our problems would be solved over-night by changing away from Microsoft’s infrastructure but I am convinced that if we took less than half the money we spend on licensing Microsoft’s software alone and invested that in training users for an open source system we would be far better off in the long run. Brings to mind ‘Give a man a fish; he’ll eat for a day, Teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime’.
I would very much like to hear other Slashdotters ideas / opinions on this ‘Strategic Direction’ and the silencing of our technical opinions.
