Boffins at Intel Labs have arisen a way to reprocess old servers and gather them in such a way as to cycle them into data centre routers.

The boffins, Gianluca Iannaccone and Sylvia Ratnasamy, have created “router bricks” for the recycled servers which should bank cash for IT sections. There is an open source software package called Click Router at the spirit of the system, which was developed at MIT a decade before. This binds the servers jointly for their new functions in the data hub.

The major motive this can be ready is for the reason that of Intel’s multi-core Nehalem chips, which provide the bandwidth and gigbit speed for these router bricks to execute at venture stage.

Iannaccone said
“The router bricks demonstrate that any number of servers can achieve switching speeds of N × R bits-per-second, provided each server can process packets at a rate between 2R-3R bps.”

[Via Fudzilla]