Posts Tagged ‘technology’
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Written by John Peers, CEO for StartUpBeat.com May 26, 2010
Imagine for a moment that firms on Wall Street can execute trades and trading algorithms much faster, where trading even milliseconds faster can mean millions in profits; or that the military can put high-density analytics systems like facial recognition in command aircrafts to speed intelligence, decision support and response efforts; or that today’s leading Internet service providers and search engines can dramatically accelerate services while cutting power and cooling costs in half and minimizing server footprints in over-crowded data centers. [ READ FULL ARTICLE ]
Tags: Computing, data center hardware, data serving, Interconnect, John Peers, military, optical equipment, Press Coverage, server technology, StartUp, startupbeat.com, technology
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
New Product Uses Light Connections in Blade Server
by George Lawton
A company has delivered the first version of a product that uses light signals, instead of cables and switches, to connect blade-server nodes. Lightfleet has sold and installed its Beacon prototype, a 32-node server, to Microsoft Research. Beacon uses the company’s Direct Broadcast Optical Interconnect (DBOI).
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Tags: Computing, Computing Now, data center hardware, data serving, DBOI, George Lawton, IEEE, Interconnect, Lightfleet, optical equipment, Press Coverage, server technology, servers, technology
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Friday, April 23rd, 2010
Posted by John West Apr 20, 2010
Lightfleet Corporation announced today that they’ve placed an alpha version of their optical interconnect technology at Microsoft Research…
…The unit was delivered to Microsoft Research’s eXtreme Computing Group, the team that Dan Reed heads up. A little more in the announcement, and I have an email in to the company to find out details…
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Tags: extreme computing, microsoft, Microsoft Research, technology
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Friday, April 23rd, 2010
Posted By Stacey Higginbotham Apr. 20, 2010
Microsoft Research is the first commercial customer of a new optical equipment module made by a seven-year-old startup that hopes its gear will enable servers to send and receive information faster. Lightfleet, based in Camas, Wash. sold an alpha version of its Direct Broadcast Optical Interconnect system, which uses broadcast light to connect computing nodes, to Microsoft’s eXtreme Computing Group, as part of a project to explore faster communication between servers in its cloud computing deployments…
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Tags: data center hardware, data serving, extreme computing, GigaOM.com, higginbotham, microsoft, Microsoft Research, optical equipment, server technology, servers, technology
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Curt Schwaderer writes in CompactPCI and AdvancedTCA Systems about Lightfleet technology and the programming model supporting it, concluding with “[Lightfleet technology] adds an important piece to the puzzle of advancing today’s communication infrastructure to the next level of usefulness.” Read the entire article here.
Tags: CompactPCI, Curt Schwaderer, data center hardware, data serving, server technology, technology
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