Acer set to complete delivery of hardware to London Olympics

Acer has delivered "95 to 98 per cent" of the required hardware to the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Locog).

The company has now supplied 12,000 PCs, 900 servers and 1,000 notebooks to the organisation, some already in position in the control centre in Canary Wharf and some in storage ready to be installed at the Olympic site.

Speaking at Locog's headquarters in London, Michael Trainor, Acer's project manager for the Olympics, gave more information on the rollout.

"There are just a few notebook orders left. We've deployed about 4,000 of the PCs for the administrative side so far and some 2,000 for use during the test events," he said.

"The rest of the equipment is in storage and will be moved into sites at the Olympic Park and other venues such as Wimbledon when space becomes available. That is likely to be around May or June next year."

The equipment will remain under the ownership of Locog after the Olympics. V3 contacted the organisation to ask what it plans to do with the hardware after the Games, but had received no response at the time of publication.

Acer also confirmed that the Technology Operations Centre, where its staff and those from other Olympics technology firms such as Atos, Cisco and BT will monitor the performance of the technology infrastructure, will officially open on Monday.

However, it has been in use since May when the first test events for the games were staged. During V3's visit, the site was being used to monitor the test archery event at Lord's Cricket Ground, and about 70 staff were working on site (pictured below).