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Extreme Linux Server Available to North America

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the hot-hardware dept.

jcasman writes "CNet is covering an announcement from Japanese Linux provider Plat'Home on a low-cost, super tough Linux-based server, now available in the US, that can handle extreme heat and cold. 'The OpenMicroServer is kind of an "extreme" use server pushing the boundaries for normal, low-cost hardware. In a 624-day endurance test, the OpenMicroServer performed normally under 122 degree F conditions. The unit also employs a power efficient AMD Alchemy (MIPS) CPU and precise part placement based on thermo-fluid analysis to achieve semi-hermetic construction.'"

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  1. Half the story by JesseL · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How well does it work in a condensing atmosphere?

    It's easy to work down to 0C when conditions are perfectly dry, it's another story when everything starts to sweat.

    And what kind of airflow are we talking about when operating at 122F ambient?

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  2. Re:Ummm..freezing is now 0 F? by joggle · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The value of Fahrenheit is that it has greater precision than Celsius (when just reporting the integer part of course). The other is that it is a bit easier for people to relate to: 0 degrees is cold!, 100 degrees is hot! Whereas in Celsius 0 degrees is somewhat cold and 100 degrees, well you're way past dead at that point.

  3. Re:Extreme? by JungleBoy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I agree as well. I regularly need embedded servers/controllers and ethernet switches that work down to -40 degrees (C/F are the same here). I install them on mountain tops in Alaska. What really annoys me is when the specs list -40 as the minimum operating temperatures, but they used crappy ethernet PHY chips that need to be kept warm, so they use a heater circuit. They never tell you this in the documentation, you just wonder why the power usage goes through the room when it gets cold.

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  4. Re:On that note by MichaelSmith · · Score: 4, Interesting

    An interesting side note though: I wonder how reliable those estimations are. I mean it's not like we've exposed human test subjects to outer space to check how long it takes them to die, right? One guy was exposed to vacuum when a pressure suit failed during tests. He was recompressed without incident after about a minute.

    Chimpanzees were deliberately exposed to vacuum in testing. They survived as well.
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