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Photos: A first look at Canonical's Intrepid Ibex
Photo This latest instalment of Linux for desktop computers and servers strives to be easy to use, a tough challenge given the complexities of Linux. Canonical recently released Ubuntu 8.10, aka Intrepid Ibex. [11 Nov 2008]
Photos: Five virtual worlds you need to know about
Photo The OpenSimulator project (OpenSim) is an open source virtual world which organisations can run on their own servers to experiment with and develop new virtual world applications. Qwaq is essentially a virtual office... [21 Oct 2008]
Top 10 green gadgets for your office
Photo While servers may be at the less sexy end of green tech, they're certainly one area where an office can make significant cuts in its carbon emissions. Manufacturers, for example, are continually introducing models with... [14 Oct 2008]
Photos: Supercomputers unlocking the brain's secrets
Photo Cubric's 75 servers have slashed the time it takes to crunch through gigabytes of brain scan data, allowing scans that used to take days to be produced in minutes. These are some of the 75 IBM servers,... [13 Oct 2008]
Photos: The Cern computers cracking the Big Bang
Photo The data that's left is sent on to the computer centre and its racks of servers, seen here. A formidable 8,000 servers housing 40,000 Intel processor cores provide the grunt to help crack the petabytes... [06 Oct 2008]
Photos: Sniffing out fraud with digital forensics
Photo These servers are devoted solely to the 130TB of information, including half-a-billion emails, amassed during the seven-year Operation Holbein investigation into pharmaceutical price fixing. The digital forensics unit... [13 Aug 2008]
Photos: Waging war on the web's bad guys
Photo The centre also has a regularly updated list of the IP addresses of the servers that command botnets, allowing it to spot attempts to connect to systems by botnet command servers. Symantec's security... [21 Jul 2008]
Bill Gates, iPhone 2.0, mini laptops and much more...
Photo This application shows how much server capacity the Wimbledon website is using - the servers run close to capacity during the tournament. This is a mobile phone vending machine on show at Fujitsu's customer experience... [30 Jun 2008]
Photos: Wimbledon on target for a tech ace
Photo During the tournament the Wimbledon website sees a huge surge in traffic so IBM brings in additional servers to meet demand. This is one of the servers used by the IBM team in the applications centre. [19 Jun 2008]
Photos: Feeling chipper about green IT
Photo Shelves of number-crunching servers at Rackspace Hosting's data centre in Slough will be running on nothing but organic waste, including wood chips, fibre and paper. Burning wood might be a chip off the old block but it... [20 May 2008]
Photos: Road testing wi-fi at 320kmph
Photo But a rack of servers (pictured) on board each train ensures content on the multimedia portal is accessible to passengers 100 per cent of the time. Photo credit: Natasha Lomas TGV passengers on the wi-fi-equipped trains... [28 Mar 2008]
Photos: Five mobile gadgets for cops
Photo The interactive forms can be immediately transmitted to HQ servers, rather than an inspector having to manually type out findings, enabling them to complete more inspections. Police forces and other emergency services... [27 Nov 2007]
Photos: Six unusual power sources
Photo The fuel cell converts the chemical energy produced by mixing hydrogen and oxygen from the air to churn out the electrical energy needed to power the servers with three 10kW cells. Scientists are coming up with novel... [19 Nov 2007]
Photos: Inside the British Library's digital books project
Photo Once the images have been created, their content is analysed and made searchable by a computer cluster located in the library, using 12 blade servers. The British Library is working with Microsoft and imaging company... [27 Sep 2007]
Photos: Five unusual data centres
Photo The 20ft by 8ft shipping container (pictured) weighs 9,000kg and can provide 1.5 million gigabytes of disk storage and hold up to 250 Sun Fire CoolThreads T1000 servers. The mixture of hydrogen and oxygen from the air... [25 Jul 2007]
