Microsoft plays with small, sleepy servers
Wed, Feb 25th, 2009
The Cloud Computing Futures (CCF) research unit at Microsoft, officially launched this week at the TechFest event in Redmond but secretly in existence for more than a year, showed off a number of projects at the event, two of which relate to servers.
One demonstrated the use of low-powered processors and small form-factor motherboards to do work that might otherwise be done by 1U, 2U, and 4U x64 or RISC servers common in data centers.
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