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Photos: Fujitsu unveils king-size fuel cell

Electronics giant inaugurates 200-kilowatt hydrogen fuel cell that will provide electricity as well as heat to buildings on its Sunnyvale campus.A proton exchange membrane PEM hydrogen fuel cell, king-size. Fujitsu inaugurated this fuel cell at its Sunnyvale, Calif., campus on Friday. The fuel cell sits in the parking lot...

Tags: Fuel cells, photograph, fuel cell, hydrogen, Fujitsu Ltd., membrane, Amdahl, Fujitsu LifeBook, steam, chair, electron, carbon dioxide, carbon, Sunnyvale, natural gas, electronics company, data center, electronics, Japan, laptop computer

Image galleries 2007-08-17

The death of single threaded development

The death of single threaded developmentLook on the bright side, George.With multiple cores, a badly-written program is less likely to slow your entire machine down to a crawl as it consumes every last CPU cycle in sight. And with CPU cores not getting much faster, maybe some programmers will put...

Tags: Games, Processors, Development tools, 64-bit, Amdahl, game, CPU, 3D

Discussion threads 2007-06-06

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DOJ probes IBM's mainframe business

M/F competitionThere use to be plug compatible m/f from Amdahl and Fujitsu. When IBM switched from bi-polar to CMOS technology, the competition was unable to make the same switch. They have left the field.A few years ago, there was a small manufacturer of a PC server capable of...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, IBM Corp., mainframe, U.S. Department of Justice, M/F

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Can Apple stop Pystar from selling Mac clone?

Can Apple stop Pystar from selling Mac clone?Assumptions"Assuming they pay Apple for every copy they sell..."D'ya think this may be the little hitch in your argument? By what mechanism exactly do you see Apple accepting money from a company that is aggressively violating their license? This improbability can only occur...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Pystar, Apple Inc., Mac-clone

Discussion threads 2008-04-15

Psystar: Apple's terms violate U.S. monopoly laws

Psystar: Apple's terms violate U.S. monopoly lawsPar for the courseLet someone else do all the work and try to make a buck off it.... Isn't that textbook moderm American business?I agreeIt would be quite shameful if Apple tried to make a buck off of Psystar's hard work.Then is Psystar technically...

Tags: Operating systems, Digital media, Digital music, Psystar, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-04-15

What+the+SCO+take-out+really+means

What+the+SCO+take-out+really+meansSuing your way to prosperityDidn't Americans come up with this concept first?SCO should have come up with products we care about rather than be patent nitpickers like Lucent.Boies, Schiller & Flexner... are prepaid and their fees are capped. SCOXQ.PK didn't need to file for bankruptcy to get out of...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Carlyle Group, IBM Corp., IBM AIX, IBM AIX/370, SCO Group Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-15

Who gave SCO that $100 million lifeline?

Who gave SCO that $100 million lifeline?Actually......the lawsuits need to be settled and buried and current management must be removed (contracts bought out, if necessary) if SCO is to survive. The former and maybe the latter will take lots of money and this man appears to have it, but...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, IBM AIX/370, IBM Corp., SCO Group Inc., IBM AIX

Discussion threads 2008-02-14

The virtualization market: The real scrum is just beginning

The virtualization market: The real scrum is just beginningVirtualization market: old newsWhy is it that the history of computer technology has to repeat itself as if no one knew it happened?[i]Mainframes went through this market decades ago![/i]If journalist bothered to review the mainframe computer technology history they'd see that the...

Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, virtualization

Discussion threads 2007-10-25

Sun set on server business?

Sun set on server business?Great post Dana - hadn't considered this angleMade me think more broadly about the deal. I don't think Sun is exiting the server business. They're just expanding the market reach of Solaris.See: http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/08/is_sun_exiting.htmlSun said from the startthat they wanted Solaris x86 to be OEMed...

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Servers, Processors, Sun Microsystems Inc., chip, server

Discussion threads 2007-08-17

Intel Kensfield quad-core CPUs - another broadside against AMD

Intel Kensfield quad-core CPUs - another broadside against AMDScalability indeedConsidering that desktop applications are almost exclusively dominated by a single process at any given time, I have rather severe reservations over the benefit of even dual CPUs.Please note that this is from someone who has spent a good bit of...

Tags: Benefits, Processors, Apple Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., benefit, dual-CPU, multiple thread, CPU, multi-core, server, quad-core CPU

Discussion threads 2006-06-21

Java inches closer to open source

Java inches closer to open sourceopensolaris was not released this yearJust to get the facts correct, Sun released Open Solaris on June 14, last year. Not "earlier this year".alan.Means nothingThe Sun announcement, if reported correctly, does little to help spread the language to exotic architectures - what Java does best...

Tags: Programming languages, Mono, Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, Red Hat Inc., IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-05-16

Understanding task and data parallelism

Intel director James Reinders explains the difference between task and data parallelism, and how there is a way around the limits imposed by Amdahl's Law.

Tags: Intel

Videos 2006-01-01

Intel tweaks Pentium D for servers

Intel tweaks Pentium D for serversIntel playing catch up to thebig boys (IBM Power4/5, SUN Niagara) and even AMD (dual-core processors) ....Intel lost its vision of the future. No Itanium 3/4 just the dynosauric x86 .... Intel, where is your past glory?Just for the sake...... of making a commentYes, Intel...

Tags: Processors, EPIC, server, Intel Pentium, Intel Itanium 2, Intel Corp., Intel x86, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., processor, Intel Itanium, dual-core, big boy

Discussion threads 2005-07-08

Intel to release dual cores this month

Intel to release dual cores this monthAbout time!about timeWhat a crock!It's amazing all the leapfrogging going around. Intel only pushed the date to beat AMD to the table. It'll only be a difference of days, and good luck finding them until the origional release time comes around.Also, the...

Tags: Semiconductors, Performance management, Processors, Network technology, Tom, chip, Intel Corp., dual-core, performance, multiprocessor, dual-core processor, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-04-11

AMD tries to round up Pacifica support

AMD tries to round up Pacifica supportOh great ANOTHER languageAMD succumbs to the "me too" and comes out with a proprietary project for virtualization. The could have supported Xen, but NOOooo they HAD to come out with their OWN stuff. Shame on you AMD for putting another fork at the...

Tags: Processors, Mainframes, Utility computing, AMD Pacifica, CPU, processor box, processor, virtualization, mainframe, PR/SM, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-03-30