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Tookis writes:
The day Linux advocates have been waiting for has arrived. Dell has announced three different systems with Ubuntu 7.04 installed: the XPS 410n and Dimension E520n desktops and the Inspiron E1505n notebook. However, those expecting lower prices for their Linux boxes may be disappointed because there is little or no price differential between the Linux and Windows models. In fact, the entry level E520 Windows desktop is significantly cheaper. http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/12396/1023/
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Arun Demeure writes:
Beyond3D has found out that NVIDIA publicly confirmed their next-generation graphics processors will reach close to one teraflop, and that they plan to release the chips before the end of the year. This information was given at a recent analyst conference with NVIDIA's VP of Investor Relations, and it seems that this figure is comparable to the GeForce 8800 GTX's 346GFlops, so they're promising about three times the performance for arithmetic operations. It might also be more power-efficient than their previous chips, since it will be manufactured on 65nm instead of 90nm. And it's potentially a very interesting product for the high-performance computing market, via APIs such as CUDA and Peakstream.
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hunte writes:
I'm planning a server/network infrastructure upgrade. I manage a couple of web servers (with circa 300 small/medium web sites), one database server, one mail server and an OpenBSD firewall on a 10 mbps line. I want to consolidate all my old servers into a single "big piece of iron" powered by some virtualization software (like VmWare, XEN, etc... is not the point).
Is a good choice using this virtual machine infrastructure also for the firewall?
Of course, the virtual machine host will be totally fault tolerant and redundant.