London Olympics: 17000 athletes, 11000 computers

[HunkyLuke]

TheReg reported yesterday that the London 2012 Olympic computing equipment contract has been won by Taiwan-based Acer, who will be supplying the Olympics with 10,000 desktops, 1,000 laptops and 900 servers. The security gate scanners and info touch screens will also be supplied by Acer.

Between 3,000 and 4,000 of the computers will be left in the Technology Operations Centre in a wired room in Canary Wharf, with the key Olympic village venues taking about 1,500 to 2,000 each.

The Acer desktops – Veriton L670Gs – will be running Windows Vista, XP or Linux with either quad-core or dual-core Intel processors. Monitors are a compact 15 inches across.

The Notebooks are hefty TravelMate 6593Gs running on Windows 7, also with Intel dual core chips: Centrinos.

The full article, including some pics of the Olympic grounds, is at http://gay.gl/fa

[HunkyLuke]

I like the Olympic construction pics so thought I would post them!

[nickbaer]

It is very expensive visiting, even living in, London now, and it will be out of reach for many during the Olympics themselves.

[tag]

the pictures look very nice, i bet it will be a great olympics! when does it start?

[SafeChargeEddie]

I like the Olympic construction pics so thought I would post them!

very cool, thanks for posting the pics, was in London for the XBIZ show and saw a little of the 2012 construction going on! :brit: