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Facebook flips the swtich on its North Carolina data center, cooled with balmy mountain air
Author: Jade Kim
Since breaking ground in Western North Carolina some 16 months ago, Facebook has been running at full speed to get its newest data center online. This week, Zuckerberg & Co. flipped the switch. The new facility, located in Forest City, touts the “first major deployment” of the outfit’s Open Compute Project web servers and will be the first “live test” of the OPC’s outdoor air-cooling design. It tends to get pretty warm around those parts and humidity levels are a bit outside of ideal data center conditions. The Carolina facility will mirror the projected power utilization effectiveness (PUE) of FB’s Oregon data center at just a smidge above 1 – somewhere between 1.06 and 1.08 to be exact. In other words, this means the ratio of power used by the structure and the actual power sent to the hardware is almost perfect with minimal energy loss. No matter, it’ll still be using plenty of power. A second identical building is slated to open on the site later this year, but for now, hit the source link for a bit more info on the initial launch.
Facebook flips the swtich on its North Carolina data center, cooled with balmy mountain air originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Asetek Shows Off Liquid Cooled Mac Pro
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The Mac Pro isn’t exactly known for being a terribly loud computer, but I guess you can make it even quieter by adding liquid cooling. Of course, it’s not Apple approved so adding this type of technology will no doubt void your warranty, but it would give you the ability to overclock your machine. In fact, this is exactly what someone from Asetek did; added liquid cooling to an 8-Core Mac Pro, and then overclocked it from 2.8Ghz to 3.16Ghz. The end result? An extremely fast workstation that generates almost no noise. Check out the video (with a performance comparison) after the jump:
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Shuttle’s X50V2 all-in-one barebones PC gets passively cooled, passively hits online retail
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When you’ve got an entire desktop PC inches from your eardrums, it helps if the machine is dead silent… or as close to that dream as possible. That’s why we’re pleased that Shuttle’s new XPC X50V2 — last spotted wearing a toga — is now on sale with a completely fanless design for silent cooling. Since CES, the all-in-one has also gained legacy parallel and serial ports (you know, for your Zip drive) and room for up to 4GB of memory, but hasn’t lost any of its dual-core Atom D510 1.66GHz goodness or its school lunchbox charm. Though we haven’t heard official word about US availability, Shuttle’s domestic website places the MSRP at $400, and online retailers including Newegg already show the tethered touchscreen tablet in stock.
Shuttle’s X50V2 all-in-one barebones PC gets passively cooled, passively hits online retail originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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