“Financial traders at a London company wear shorts to work because heat from workstations under their desks is so bad. Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has invented technology to take the workstations out from under the desks and replace them with blade-style computers tucked away in a separate data center.”
HP are set to release trader blade workstations, this sounds great, we’ve been having increasing problems with heat and space as some of the traders want more than one pc under their desk, and the trader workstations do use a lot of power and generate significant heat. The main challenge I see here is still the cost. £800 for a trader pc, or £2500 for a blade workstation, plus the remote bits like a screen etc. Until the comfor bit becomes significant enough, we shall continue with pcs, (that coupled with datacenter capacity). Interesting to see how quickly the banks’ adopt this new technology.
