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Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | I'm sure it'll work.. I've had some old servers that by today's standards are just considered 'space heaters'.
If these things are consuming a good chunk of power, might as well put that radiated heat to use.
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God Bless All Of Us
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join:2001-05-25
Memphis, TN
| Re: I'm sure it'll work.. that was just one of the benefits of running my two desktops all the time with both sides off the cases. It did help to keep my living room warmer during the winter before last. This past winter one of my computers was not working and it was a little harder to keep my living room warm.
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Elf Wizard
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ
| almost makes me wonder as we focus on "green" buildings, we should water cool the massive server farms in some of the biggest data centers and then use that heat to help heat the office spaces. i mean the energy is being spent why not put it to use and save on AC operations during cooler months by just dumping the server heat into the office which would save on fuel too because you wouldnt have to burn as much gas/oil to heat the offices.
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vboyer
Slightly Ahead Of Time
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join:2002-01-27
Winter Park, FL
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| Re: I'm sure it'll work.. said by en102  :At least they should be putting that waste energy to use (i.e. steam powered electrical generators). Or better yet: adsorption chillers! Use the process waste heat to cool stuff. Like the building, or a part of the process that needs refrigeration...
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rhp997
@cybermesa.com | The NORAD bunker in Colorado used to be heated entirely by their computer room (vac. tube days)...recent upgrades to smaller, more powerful computers caused all sorts of heating related issues... | |
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Dont Ask
@sbcglobal.net | Id kill for a SUPER connection! Lol
Thats like giving a nascar to granny so she could go to the market on sunday!Whats the point if she isnt into the net lol | |
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dlewis23
join:2005-04-18
Boca Raton, FL
| Stupid This is so stupid. No single computer right now could even use 100gbps, let alone 40gbps.
You have no way to get that speed into the computer to where it would be even usable. Your hard drive, and ram can't handle anything that fast yet. Any PCI-e card you use to get it in your computer isnt going at 40gbps.
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Boogeyman
Drive it like you stole it
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join:2002-12-17
Huntsville, AL
·Comcast
| Because a pipe that fat can hold 1500 HD feeds at the same time (According to the blurb on this from /.). Since right now the cable companies have to compress thier signals for HD due to not enough bandwidth, this could help us realize un-compressed HD, and numerous channels of it.
Remember, that bandwidth isnt just for internet use. | |
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| Shark_615
join:2006-01-17
Pickering, ON
| You are looking at this from an absurdly narrow view and should be careful what you call stupid.
This is not for just one PC it can be used to stream all kinds of data, phone, TV, music, videos etc. It would 'power' you whole house not just the PC in your basement | |
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RadioDoc
Sortofadog
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join:2000-05-11
Chicago, IL
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| Re: Stupid said by Shark_615 :You are looking at this from an absurdly narrow view That seems to be a recently added requirement to join.
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| said by Shark_615 :You are looking at this from an absurdly narrow view and should be careful what you call stupid. This is not for just one PC it can be used to stream all kinds of data, phone, TV, music, videos etc. It would 'power' you whole house neighborhood not just the PC in your basement
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DiscardedVet
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join:2005-04-06
Sturgis, SD
| Re: Stupid said by bent :would 'power' you whole house neighborhood
In other words, it would be "Tubes 2.0"
LMDAO !!!
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join:2005-04-06
Sturgis, SD
| said by dlewis23 :This is so stupid. No single computer right now could even use 100gbps, let alone 40gbps. If every component/protocol manufacturer/developer (of any field of the modern world) waited on his counterpart to develope a product that can use the higher end product, they would ALL be waiting on each other endlessly. Advancement would come to a stall, and there would never be any further developements ... of anything!
Don't think in the box.
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@optonline.net
| Memory bandwidth is measured in bytes and network connection speeds are measured in bits.
A 1333MHz FSB with dual channel DDR2 memory supports 12,800 MBps. A 100Gbps internet connection provides 12.5GBps. 12,800 MBps is equal to 12.5GBps (1 GB = 2^10 MB).
Therefore, modern computers can use 100Gbps internet connections in terms of RAM. However, connecting the connection to the northbridge would require a 32x PCI Express 2.0 network card and a corresponding 32x PCI Express 2.0 slot, both of which are not currently available, but will be available soon. Also, theoretically speaking, a 1.6GHz 64bit processor or a 3.2GHz 32bit processor would be necessary to process data at the rate it would be received.
Of course, this ignores the fact that these are full duplex connections, which would require that computer systems be able to receive and send at 100Gbps simultaneously, something that would require FB-DIMMs and 64bit processors. | |
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cdru
Go Colts
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join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
 ·Verizon FIOS
| said by dlewis23 :So what is the point of even doing this. Her son, Peter Löthberg, isn't exactly a nobody. He's pretty much a optical guru and when he speaks, many companies that matter listen. Cisco went to him to help design some of their gigabit routers. When he installed the line it wasn't put in to be just an every day connection. It was for a proof of concept, this-is-what-we-can-do type of thing. It would be the equivalent of Bill Gates installing in his parents home a data center running Windows Server...will his parents ever use it to it's full capacity? Never. Is it something cool that maybe one day everyone will have the equivalent? Yeah. | |
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David_
La vida es bella
join:2001-01-28
chile
| Can I dry my laundry in her house? 
Look on the bright side, this is probably only used for long haul end to end connections , not us , the above average internet joe user.
Remeber how fast was the net back in `99 ? and look how fast it is now.
Just try to be positive , although it does look impossible right now , who knows what the future might hold...
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join:2006-11-11
Nancy, KY | Re: Can I dry my laundry in her house? Can't resist again. Yea, drier clothes! | |
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tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| Insert nasty "Changing a lightbulb joke here" Spread the wealth... some of us would just like the 100/100megabits please! Also, optical servers don't necessarily have to generate so much damn heat or electricity to work.. essentially the connections would sit idle & not generate much heat/electricity IF they were designed properly. | |
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