200 + articles on Microsoft Research Intel Atom Based Servers
Friday, February 27, 2009 at 9:32AM I wrote about Intel Atom based servers starting in Aug 2008, and people thought it was silly to think of Intel Atom as a server product.
Well, thanks to Microsoft Research’s Intel Atom project, there are now over 200 articles about the idea of Intel Atom Servers. http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=intel+atom+microsoft+research
Microsoft tests Intel Atom netbook processor for 'green' servers
Computerworld - 2 hours ago
Judging by the $300 to $400 cost of Atom-based netbooks, Ohara said that racks of Atom-based server blades could be made for even less. "Intel hates this ...
Microsoft experiments with servers based on Intel Atom processors FierceCIO
Boston Globe
Microsoft TechFest: A pinch of your fingers and images, videos move
Seattle Times - Feb 25, 2009
... data center built from 100 of the low-power Intel Atom processors used in cheap netbook computers. Hrvoje Benko, of Microsoft's advanced research group, ...
Microsoft builds atomic cloud ComputerWeekly.com
Microsoft plays with small, sleepy servers Register
Microsoft debuts cloud R&D team EETimes.com
DigitalJournal.com
Microsoft studies new ways to turn servers on and off
DigitalJournal.com - Feb 25, 2009
With Project Marlowe, Microsoft is looking at trade-offs between using a large amount of Intel Atom chips compared to using Intel Xeon chips. The Intel Atom ...
Microsoft powers data centres with netbooks Inquirer
New York Times Blogs
Microsoft Studies the Big Sleep
New York Times Blogs - Feb 24, 2009
With Marlowe, Microsoft has created a prototype server that relies on Intel’s Atom chip, most often found today in ultra-portable computing devices like ...
And, thanks to Eric Lai from ComputerWorld I am in one of the articles as well. ;-)
Because they were designed for laptops and netbooks, Atom CPUs can be quickly put into sleep/hibernate states and then quickly woken up, said Dave Ohara, a consultant who runs the Green Data Center blog,unlike desktop and server CPUs.
The next step is a big name Server OEM shipping an Intel Atom server. Here is a scary # for Intel quoted in the NYtimes.
With Marlowe, Microsoft has created a prototype server that relies on Intel’s Atom chip, most often found today in ultra-portable computing devices like netbooks. Such chips consume about one-tenth as much power as a regular Xeon server chip from Intel, and computer boards based on the chip cost about $70 instead of $1,000. The Atom chips, however, can perform only about one-fourth the amount of work in a given period of time as the Xeon chips, said Navendu Jain, a Microsoft researcher, during an interview Tuesday at the company’s headquarters.
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