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Coldest Data Center in the World – Ice Cube Lab

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Negative 40 degrees… So cold, they have to heat the air used to cool the data center. The Ice Cube Lab data center has over 1,200 computing cores and three petabytes of storage and tethered to the IceCube Observatory, a neutrino detector with strings of optical sensors buried a kilometer deep in the Antarctic ice.

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Looking beyond linpack: new supercomputing benchmark in the works

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The Linpack will not be laid to rest though – HPCG will serve as a companion ranking of the Top500 list, in a similar fashion to how the Green 500 re-ranks the Top500 according to energy efficiency. About John Rath John Rath is a veteran IT professional and regular contributor at Data Center Knowledge. Data Center Videos.

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Understanding VMware vCloud vs. Openstack

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Developer’s build applications and don’t manage the data center. But, again they don’t run the data center. Administrators install, configure and administer data center management tools. However, VMware has since refocused on its core hypervisor and Data Center management software products.

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Forget the FUD: VMware NSX and Cisco ACI SDN solutions

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There is no question, we are on the edge of the transformation of data center network technology. VMware wants to stop nothing short of disrupting the network industry in the same fashion in which they have the 86x server industry. Cisco’s claim is that their ACI approach is one system.

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