Lindows.com has launched the KooBox, an all-in-one computer system that includes a flat-panel LCD monitor, speakers, keyboard, mouse, CD player, network card, modem, and LindowsPlus, which provides more than 1,500 applications from the company’s Click-N-Run Warehouse (http://www.lindows.com/cnr), all for a base price of $449.
For those needing more than what the standard KooBox offers, KooBox also comes in a Deluxe version with triple the hard drive capacity, an upgraded processor, twice as much RAM, a DVD/CD-RW drive, a 3D graphics card, upgraded audio capabilities, upgraded speakers, and DVD playback software for $669.
The KooBox includes a 90-day warranty, but an extra $59 purchases an optional Premium System Support warranty with 24/7 toll-free support and next-day, in-home technician service. The plan can be purchased for up to four years. A full list of details and technical specifications about KooBox is available at http://www.koobox.com/indexSPECS.html.
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Dell announced that the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has selected Dell to provide more than 1,450 servers for a large-scale, high-performance computing cluster. The Intel Xeon- and Red Hat Linux-based cluster is expected to have a peak performance of 17.7 teraflops (17.7 trillion calculations per second), making it one of the world’s fastest supercomputers when compared to the peak performance of the machines listed on the most recently released Top 500 list (
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