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      <title>NVIDIA Tesla Bio Workbench</title>
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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>
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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>
      <description><![CDATA[Boston implements SSD drives in the latest range of Fenway Virtualisation solutions. Finally this exciting technology is both mature and affordable making an excellent argument for price, performance, power consumption and reliability.]]></description>
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      <title>A move to 2.5'' HDD in Enterprise Class Computing</title>
      <link>http://www.boston.co.uk/technical/2008/12/a-move-to-25-hdd-in-enterprise-class-computing.aspx?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=syndication&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The Benefits of 2.5" HDD technology have been obvious to laptop users for years, however, capacity and performance demands of the Server and Storage market can now be realised using both SATA and SAS technologies.]]></description>
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      <title>Migrating to new Server CPU/Chipsets - Intel vs AMD</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Intel and AMD have been busy preparing launches of new multi-core CPUs for the server and workstation market, based around 45nm manufacturing technologies, delivering greater transistor density, lower power consumption and an increase in the number of cores from 4 (today's Intel Harpertown and AMD's Barcelona) to 6 and even 8 cores.]]></description>
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      <title>Introducing InfiniBand</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The InfiniBand technology available today is the result of a combination of previously competing designs, Future I/O (initially developed by Compaq, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard) and Next Generation I/O (developed by Intel, Microsoft and Sun). Today, InfiniBand is used primarily in HPC markets as a high-speed, low latency, switch-fabric interconnect, but its popularity in other market segments as a general purpose interconnect is growing.

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      <title>Silentium's Active Noise Control (ANC) Technology</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Active noise control (ANC) is a method for reducing unwanted sound. ANC is sound field modification, particularly sound field cancellation, by electro-acoustical means.]]></description>
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      <title>VMware ESX Server - Features &amp; Benefits</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <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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      <title>Introducing VMware</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <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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      <title>Whisper-Quiet SuperWorkstation Solutions</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <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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      <title>Introducing Citrix XenServer v4</title>
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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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      <title>Introducing Xen</title>
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      <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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      <title>Learn more about Virtualization</title>
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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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      <title>The SAS Advantage</title>
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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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      <title>IPSAN/iSCSI - The iSCSI Advantage</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <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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      <title>Supermicro 1U Twin System - Two Nodes in 1U</title>
      <link>http://www.boston.co.uk/technical/2007/05/supermicro-1u-twin-system-two-nodes-in-1u.aspx?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=syndication&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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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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      <title>LSI Storage Adapters</title>
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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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      <title>Supermicro IPMI 2.0</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A technical article providing an introduction to Supermicro IPMI 2.0.]]></description>
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