http://www.integrativestream.com/2006/01/16/ndiyos-low-cost-labs.html Disrupting Innovation since 2002 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:57:52 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.integrativestream.com/2006/01/16/ndiyos-low-cost-labs.html/comment-page-1#comment-8120 The Integrative Stream » Multidinous MIPS, Multiple Monitors, Man Machine Mergers Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:24:41 +0000 http://www.integrativestream.com/2006/01/16/ndiyos-low-cost-labs.html#comment-8120 [...] It’s ultimately all about price and performance. Back in January I wrote about Ndyio, which takes another approach to the profusion of raw processing power. It’s a cheap little box that connects a bunch of monitors and keyboards to a single computer running Linux. I’d lost track of it until yesterday, when I saw it mentioned in the Economist’s Technology Quarterly. It solves the problem of what to do with all that surplus computing power by sharing it. Ideal for third world cybercafes, where hardware costs are still a big deal, but also potentially useful for corporate environments and schools, which could benefit from the lower administrative costs associated with having fewer systems to administer. [...] [...] It’s ultimately all about price and performance. Back in January I wrote about Ndyio, which takes another approach to the profusion of raw processing power. It’s a cheap little box that connects a bunch of monitors and keyboards to a single computer running Linux. I’d lost track of it until yesterday, when I saw it mentioned in the Economist’s Technology Quarterly. It solves the problem of what to do with all that surplus computing power by sharing it. Ideal for third world cybercafes, where hardware costs are still a big deal, but also potentially useful for corporate environments and schools, which could benefit from the lower administrative costs associated with having fewer systems to administer. [...]

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