Intelligent NIC downloads while host PC sleeps

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Article Source LinuxDevices
April 27, 2009, 3:18 pm

Developers at the University of San Diego say they will demonstrate massive power savings for desktop PCs from embedding an ARM- and Linux-based Gumstix CPU into a network interface. The “Somniloquy” can handle file-sharing and long downloads independently, and only wakes a host PC when necessary.