Azul does them all better, boasting 24 cores per chip, with up to 16 chips packed into a single server.
Instead of one PC client hosted on one server, virtualization software allows companies to host many PCs on a single server, cutting total IT energy costs.
One way to defend against those attacks, Prince said, is to deflect some of the traffic targeted at a single server onto a bunch of other servers at different locations.
It is similar to what happened a few years ago when companies such as VMware Inc. began offering virtualization software that made it possible to run more than one program on a single server system.
"When you're streaming video to PCs from a single source, the users aren't fully saturating their available bandwidth, " says Adam Berrey, vice president of marketing for Brightcove, which is the first video service to use BitTorrent's DNA. Because BitTorrent pulls the video from many different sources at once, Berrey says, its delivery should be far more efficient than pulling from a single server.
Virtualization turns each of those underperforming machines into pieces of software and packs them together on a single physical server that runs continuously.
But while a typical cockpit may have a hundred or so switches, a single Linux server has hundreds of config files with thousands of controls.
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Today, virtualization allows servers to be converted to software "images" that can be consolidated and hosted on a single physical server, increasing a data center's efficiency by about 25%, Kerravala estimates.
Many of you and your IT organizations began to evaluate and consider server virtualization technology a couple of years ago as a way to move beyond the legacy IT model of having a single operating system instance bound to a single physical server.
But it is rare that a single, central server has the responsibility for distributing content to users.
While Siri is going back and forth multiple times, Google is resolving the statement of the query on the client and then making a single request to the server.
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Next, Huang showed off 100 Windows desktops grinding through video games, movies, and other rich media applications being supported by a single pizza-box sized server.
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To the extent that the Nasdaq market exists anywhere, it's within a single rack-mounted Dell server in a rented data center somewhere across the Hudson River.
By the company's count, a single combined thin client and blade server uses 44 watts of energy compared with an energy-chewing desktop PC's 80 watts.
The server farm has a single entrance and is outfitted by half-meter thick metal doors and backup generators pulled from German submarines --fitting safeguards, perhaps.
In bringing Ubuntu to the phone, Canonical is uniquely placed with a single operating system for client, server and cloud, and a unified family of interfaces for the phone, the PC and the TV.
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Minecraft supports a multiplayer mode allowing players to set up and manage a server that can host dozens or even hundreds of simultaneous players in a single, persistent virtual world (for an example of a popular Minecraft server, see Meepcraft).
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Both the X11 client and server can run on a single machine.
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Bill Zeitler, the senior vice president of IBM's systems and technology group, said IBM would garner 1 point of market share in the server market each year between now and 2010 in, with server growth in the mid single digits.
Star Citizen places you in a massive and ever-expanding (vis-a-vis micro-updates) universe with some elements of the MMO genre and some elements of single-player all on one super-server a la Eve Online.
Open source software such as Apache Web server and the Linux server operating system have become popular systems to run not only on network servers, but also on server appliances (servers dedicated to single tasks such as e-mail and Web site hosting).
The eToys sites also offered "one-click" shopping, which allows customers to leave their credit card details once in a secure server and then make repeat orders with a single mouse click.
One aspect of the new home router can help you eliminate it: The device has a built-in print server that allows more than one computer to share a single printer.
Profitability in DRAM remained weak despite growth in global PC shipments in the high-single digit percentage quarter-on-quarter and a push in sales of mobile and server DRAM.
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Servers often use special virtualized software allowing data from multiple companies to be stored on one server or processor (an analogy would be instead of a cabinet containing files from a single customer, it holds files from numerous clients).
Second, remember that when they decide to shut down a server for an always-on-DRM game, even if it's really just a single player game, it is legally unplayable.
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Silk uses the power and speed of the EC2 server fleet to retrieve all of the components of a website and deliver them to Kindle Fire in a single, fast stream.
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