• Cray Deploys Liquid-Cooled CS300 Supercomputer

  Cray announced that it has won a contract with Mississippi State University to provide a Cray CS300-LC system, and that it will offer Intel Xeon Phi and NVIDIA Tesla GPU accelerators in its products.

• New ebook: Geocoding on Rails, Your Map to Geocoding Rails Applications

  If you've worked on a web application in the past eight years or so, there's a good chance you've written mapping or geocoding functionality. I've worked on multiple Rails applications in the past year which geocode certain pieces of data; each time, I had to remind myself which Ruby gems to…

• Prudential, Digital Realty Deal Could Boost Data Center Investment

  Prudential Real Estate Investors (PREI) has teamed with Digital Realty Trust on a $369 million joint venture to operate fully-leased corporate data centers..By packaging properties with high-quality corporate tenants, Digital Realty (DLR) has made the portfolio attractive to "core" real…

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• Diesel Fuel: It's Critical for Standby Power

  Data center downtime is a familiar topic in the industry; however avoiding down time through proactive fuel management is not common knowledge in the field despite an emerging relevance. A vast majority of data centers use diesel to supply their backup power systems, writes Alastair Trower of…

• F1 and Spanner: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales

  F1 and Spanner: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales : A very good summary of the goals, interactions and collaboration between F1 and Spanner by Srihari Srinivasan: With both the F1 and Spanner papers out its now possible to understand theirinterplay a bit holistically. Original title and…