Friday 12 October 2012

Researchers design 19th century-inspired wireless data centre

The Cayley data center rack

Researchers at Cornell University, New York, and Microsoft have cooked up a recipe for a wireless data centre. That's right, an entire data centre that shuttles information among thousands of machines using not cables but thin air.


Their design throws out traditional switches and networking cables, but it also borrows from a very unusual source: the 19th century mathematician Arthur Cayley.


By: Robert McMillan, Edited by: David Cornish


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/12/19th-century-wireless-data-centre

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