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      <title>LSI Nytro MegaRAID 8100 series evaluation</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Over the past few weeks the team at Boston Labs have been evaluating the new LSI Nytro MegaRAID 8100 series. Find out what they thought of it...]]></description>
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      <title>Supermicro IPMI - What can it do for you?</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Supermicro IPMI - What is it and what can it do for you?]]></description>
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      <title>BIOS Upgrade Guide</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[BIOS Upgrade Guide]]></description>
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      <title>New Intel Xeon E5 series server processors</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[If you want to offer the best and the newest server on the market, make sure it's based from Intel Xeon E5 series processors. The latest technology provides optimum combination of performance, efficiency and price.]]></description>
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      <title>Intel Solid-State Drives</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A robust and high-performance alternative to traditional hard drives. Intel SSD contain no movable parts, which results in quiet operation and high shock-resistance.]]></description>
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      <title>3rd Generation Intel Core Processor Family For Home-Desktop</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A new PC can provide you with unique and expanded capabilities. And when it is powered by a visibly smart 3rd generation Intel® Core™ processor, it can deliver amazing performance.]]></description>
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      <title>LSI MegaRAID CacheVault Technology</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Providing access to write-back cache is one of the many benefits of a hardware RAID controller card. Write-back cache improves application performance by storing write data to high performance cache memory during periods of heavy use. When there is a break in user requests the data is then written from the cache memory to the array.]]></description>
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      <title>Supermicro IPMI - What is it and what can it do for you?</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Intelligent Platform Management Interface - (IPMI) has been around since 1998 when the specification was launched. The standard; led by Intel and has since been adopted by numerous system vendors including Supermicro.]]></description>
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      <title>Accelerate Your Scientific Code with OpenACC</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Based on the OpenACC standard, GPU directives are the easy, proven way to accelerate your scientific or industrial code. With GPU directives, you can accelerate your code by simply inserting compiler hints into your code and the compiler will automatically map compute-intensive portions of your code to the GPU.]]></description>
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      <title>Building a 85TB cheap storage server with Solaris OpenIndiana</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Juho Makinen just recently built a storage server based on Solaris OpenIndiana, a 2U SuperMicro server and a SuperMicro 45 disk JBOD rack enclosure. The current configuration can host 84 TB of usable disk space, but they plan to extend this at least to 200TB in the following months. This article describes the configuration and steps how to implement such a beast by yourself.]]></description>
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      <title>Explore new collaborative ways to find oil easier</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The main goal of the VRGeo Consortium is the development and evaluation of interactive hardware and software technologies for visualization systems in the oil and gas industry.  They have developed a prototype application for the collaborative interpretation of 2D seismic data using multi-touch tablets.  The tablets used were driven by the powerful NVIDIA&#174; Tegra&#153; 2 chip running on Android OS.]]></description>
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      <title>LSI Cachecade 2 Evaluation - The benefits of caching</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[LSI Cachecade&#153; 2.0 promises to be answer to some of the IT manager&#39;s serious pain points with storage, specifically those related to performance and random I/O.  This new functionality is injected into a number of the existing line of LSI SAS 6Gbit RAID controllers and adds SSD caching functionality to the already impressive feature set to help improve performance and negate some of the pitfalls of traditional hard disk technology.]]></description>
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      <title>LSI MegaRAID&amp;#174; CacheVault&amp;#153; Technology</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[With the exponential growth of storage requirements each year, the need for reliable and high-performing data protection increases in tandem. It&#39;s a challenging balancing act trying to satisfy all your storage and data protection needs in today&#39;s cost-driven and environmentally-conscious world.]]></description>
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      <title>NVIDIA - Learn about Cuda in 5 minutes</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The first in a series of new CUDA educational videos is now ready for viewing.  You have been invited to view a presentation titled "Intro to CUDA" by Cliff Woolley, NVIDIA. Its length is 00:05:33.

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      <title>SAS Switch - Solve Problems by Efficiently Connecting Multiple Servers to Multiple Storage Devices</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The LSI&#174; 6Gb/s SAS6160 Switch is an easier-to-use storage networking problem-solver for direct attached storage (DAS), storage area networks (SANs), and virtualized environments. The Switch helps enable storage resources to be shared across multiple hosts and managed through SAS zoning.]]></description>
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      <title>Nexenta NexentaStor 3.0</title>
      <link>http://www.boston.co.uk/technical/2011/03/nexenta-nexentastor-30.aspx?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=syndication&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This new version of NexentaStor pushes past legacy storage solutions with massive savings and superior functionality.]]></description>
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      <title>Nexenta - Enterprise Class Open Storage</title>
      <link>http://www.boston.co.uk/technical/2011/03/nexenta-enterprise-class-open-storage.aspx?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=syndication&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[NexentaStor provides enterprise class unified storage capabilities via a software solution that ends vendor lock-in while delivering superior storage management functionality with a particular focus on virtualized environments.]]></description>
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      <title>CERN Installation</title>
      <link>http://www.boston.co.uk/technical/2011/02/cern-installation.aspx?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=syndication&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Boston Limited and strategic partner Viglen (a leading British manufacturer and provider of IT solutions) have been selected by CERN laboratory, one of the world’s leading research organisations, for providing part of the processing power for analysing the conditions just after the Big Bang.]]></description>
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      <title>Why should creative professionals choose BOXX?</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[With the number of workstation choices available to animators, VFX artists, designers, architectural visualization experts, and film editors, why should these creative professionals choose BOXX? Here are some answers.]]></description>
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      <title>Combine the power of supercomputing with the ease of Windows</title>
      <link>http://www.boston.co.uk/technical/2010/09/combine-the-power-of-supercomputing-with-the-ease-of-windows.aspx?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=syndication&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Suite is the third version of Microsoft&#39;s solution for high performance computing (HPC). Built on Windows Server2008 R2 64-bit technology Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Suite makes it easier than ever for companies to benefit from high-performance computing. ]]></description>
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      <title>Introducing the best Quadro ever - 5X Faster Performance</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The newest NVIDIA Quadro professional solutions are true technological breakthroughs, delivering up to 5X faster performance across a broad range of design, animation and video applications. Built on the innovative NVIDIA Fermi architecture, the latest Quadro offerings are the first professional-class GPUs to integrate high performance computing capabilities with advanced visualization techniques, transforming modern workflows. ]]></description>
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      <title>Lustre Parallel Storage Solutions</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Building upon our award winning range of Igloo storage solutions, our new range of Igloo &#34;L series&#34; parallel storage solutions provide genuine enterprise class storage that can be scaled to suit user needs whether it may be increased I/O performance, supplementary storage, further virtualised machines or improved availability and functionality.]]></description>
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      <title>Why Choose Tesla Over GeForce?</title>
      <link>http://www.boston.co.uk/technical/2010/07/why-choose-tesla-over-geforce.aspx?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=syndication&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing architecture is enabled on GeForce, Quadro, and Tesla products. Whereas GeForce and Quadro are designed for consumer graphics and professional visualization respectively, the NVIDIA Tesla product family is designed ground-up for parallel computing and offers exclusive computing features.]]></description>
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      <title>Remote Servers and 1U 3D Workstations</title>
      <link>http://www.boston.co.uk/technical/2010/06/remote-servers-and-1u-3d-workstations.aspx?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=syndication&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Our new range of remote workstations and server solutions allow users to extend the machine of their choice to their desktop - worldwide! Our approach implements the innovative PCoIP protocol to encrypt and encode the entire computing experience at the host machine and transmitting "pixels only" across a standard IP network to stateless PCoIP desktop devices.]]></description>
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      <title>Next generation CUDA GPU architecture codenamed "Fermi"</title>
      <link>http://www.boston.co.uk/technical/2010/05/next-generation-cuda-gpu-architecture-codenamed-fermi.aspx?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=syndication&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The NVIDIA Tesla 20-series is designed from the ground up for high performance computing. Based on the next generation CUDA GPU architecture codenamed "Fermi", it supports many "must have" features for technical and enterprise computing. These include ECC memory for uncompromised accuracy and scalability, support for C++ and 8X the double precision performance compared Tesla 10-series GPU computing products.]]></description>
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      <title>Supermicro Solutions based on Intel Xeon Processor 5600/3600 Series</title>
      <link>http://www.boston.co.uk/technical/2010/03/supermicro-solutions-based-on-intel-xeon-5600-3600.aspx?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=syndication&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[To equip customers with the best time-to-market advantage possible, Supermicro has provided an extensive selection of motherboards, chassis, SuperServers, Twin and GPU supercomputer systems, SuperWorkstations, Blade and TwinBlade solutions optimized for the new generation Intel Xeon processor 5600/3600 series.]]></description>
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      <title>NVIDIA Tesla Bio Workbench</title>
      <link>http://www.boston.co.uk/technical/2010/01/nvidia-tesla-bio-workbench.aspx?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=syndication&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The NVIDIA Tesla Bio Workbench enables bio-physicists and computational chemists to push the boundaries of bio-chemical research. It turns a standard PC into a &quot;computational laboratory&quot; capable of running complex bio-science codes -- in fields such as drug discovery and DNA sequencing -- more than 10-20 times faster through the use of NVIDIA Tesla computing processors.]]></description>
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      <title>GPU Computing For Servers</title>
      <link>http://www.boston.co.uk/technical/2009/12/gpu-computing-for-servers.aspx?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=syndication&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Throughout the past year there has been an increased focus from GPU providers such as nVIDIA on GPGPU (General Purpose GPU) compute applications and the emergence of the personal supercomputer. Leveraging the power of multiple GPUs to perform computational tasks provides massive processing benefits in a single workstation system. Read on to discover how this technology leap came about.]]></description>
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      <title>Liquid Cooling For Servers</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Following the recent launch of our innovative liquid cooled servers featuring patented "modular liquid immersion" technology from Iceotope Ltd, our latest technical article explains what's involved in the technology, how it works, and the practical benefits of using liquid cooling.]]></description>
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      <title>Failover Storage in a Virtualised Environment</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[When designing our latest Igloo storage systems we actively encouraged the concept of integration with virtualised server environments in addition to traditional storage environments.]]></description>
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      <title>SSD Performance Improvements to Challenge HDD</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[What makes VMWare ESX Server 3 the right choice for you? It brings many benefits to the table that help you on your transition to a virtual world.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[VMware has long been a dominant force in the virtualization arena and, by many, is regarded as the benchmark against which all other virtualization platforms must compare.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Supermicro's Whisper-Quiet family of SuperWorkstations feature state-of-the-art designs demonstrating acoustically optimized thermal engineering. All major system components such as high efficiency power supply, processor and chipset, memory, heat sinks, fans, chassis, materials and layout- are tuned to produce sound levels reaching as low as 28 dB.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The inventors and lead developers of Xen, with the rest of the Citrix XenServer product team, take this powerful virtualisation engine and build out a full managed virtualisation platform around it, designed for efficient management of Windows and Linux Virtual machines.]]></description>
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      <guid>http://www.boston.co.uk/technical/2008/02/introducing-xen.aspx?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=syndication&amp;utm_campaign=rss</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Xen is a unique open source technology invented by a team led by Ian Pratt at Cambridge University (who subsequently founded XenSource) and developed cooperatively by the world’s best engineers at over 20 of the most innovative data centre solution vendors.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The concept of virtualization has existed in one form or another in computing since the early 1960s. In virtualization, the characteristics of a resource are abstracted, so that it may be accessed in some way that is different from its actual physical form.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[As the performance of traditional parallel SCSI technology has finally started to reach its limits, the evolution of SAS technology has fast proven to be a worthy successor. As a logical evolution of SCSI technology, SAS provides for further performance headroom whilst offering newfound and valuable support for SATA technologies.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[iSCSI is a new technology that lets you build powerful network storage systems using standard Ethernet networks and low-cost hardware.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Two dual processor systems in a standard 1U rack supporting up to four Intel Quad-Core/Dual Core Xeon CPUs. Other benefits include front-to-back airflow, convenient cabling for easy maintenance, two hot-swap HDD’s for each node, shared chassis and power supply for cost savings and better efficiency.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[LSI Logic is the leading supplier of host-based RAID to the global PC and server markets.  Boston are proud to be able to offer the complete range of LSI based SAS, SCSI, SATA2 and SATA RAID controllers and HBAs.]]></description>
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