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- An Assessment of Leadership Performance With POWER6 Processors and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1
- Compute-intensive performance is increasingly required for today's high-performance environments. The IBM System p 570 with POWER6 processors provides leadership performance and demonstrates excellent scalability moving from one node to four nodes in this environment while providing linear SMP Symmetric Multiprocessing scaling and growth for workloads similar to the metrics used...
- Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Leadership, Red Hat Inc., IBM POWER6, IBM Corp., Compute-intensive Performance, Processors, Open Source, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2008-01-31
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- AMD turbo boosts Flash Player 10.1 with ATI Stream technology
- AMD seems to be the more viable choice nowThey certainly have improved their offerings over Intel and NVIDIA, which both seem to be up in the air at the moment. Intel isn't focused on offering good mainstream performance for the dollar - they're only working on Atom and the...
- Tags: Chipsets, Processors, Semiconductors, Macromedia Flash Player, NVidia Corp., Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATI Technologies Inc., AMD 785G, GPU, AMD Athlon, chipset
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- Cray XT5 Jaguar bests IBM Roadrunner as world's fastest supercomputer
- What operating systems are they running on?Just curious. :-)RE: Cray XT5 Jaguar bests IBM Roadrunner as world's fastest supercomputerFrom:http://www.nccs.gov/jaguar/#fragment-1Each node runs Cray's version of the SuSE Linux operating system. Cray has tuned the Linux kernel to remove unnecessary services from the compute nodes. The result is that the operating system...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, IBM Corp., Cray Inc., Linux, operating system, supercomputer
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- Ubuntu 9.10 advances Canonical's cloud, enterprise goals
- Ubuntu 9.10 advances Canonical's ambitious push into cloud computing -- and the enterprise. Ubuntu is best known for its Linux desktop and there are several desktop improvements in this upgrade -- including a faster boot and login and enhanced audio and and 3G broadband connectivity. ...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Eucalyptus, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Desktops, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- Teradata unveils cloud strategy, answer for Oracle's Exadata machine
- Data warehousing giant Teradata is outlining its cloud computing strategy including an internal cloud service and a public offering via Amazon Web Services. In addition, Teradata is rolling out an appliance it claims will provide a big performance boost. The announcements, timed for Teradata's partner conference in...
- Tags: Strategy, Data Warehouse, Teradata, Oracle Corp., Performance Claim, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- 30% of desktops to have 2 GPUs by 2012 ... Really?
- I really don't see the need...Unless you're a hard core gamer or work heavily in the graphics dept...RE: 30% of desktops to have 2 GPUs by 2012 ... Really?Mine has two. And how do you get the little quote box thing? I've been looking to get that on mine for...
- Tags: Desktops, Games, GPU, desktop, graphics, Jon Peddie, game
- Discussion threads 2009-08-17
- Supercomputing Improves Research and Raises University's Profile
- Glasgow Caledonian University has provided high performance computing HPC to researchers for more than 15 years. During this time, interest in computer simulation has expanded into disciplines that did not previously use HPC. To make these services more accessible and easier for everyone to use, the university hired HPC specialist...
- Tags: High-performance Computing, Supercomputing, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cloud Computing
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- Amazon: Shares tumble late as Q2 sales fall short; quiet about Kindle
- Amazon made headlines this week by looking ahead with the announced acquisition of online shoe retailer Zappos. But the second quarter performance was all about the Kindle e-Book reader. The online retailer today reported second quarter net income of $142 million, or 32 cents per share, down...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Virtualize with the new VMware vSphere on IBM Intel processors and take advantage of special financing
- VMware vSphere is designed to simplify, consolidate and realize new flexibility and performance with servers, storage, and networks. Come listen to industry experts from Intel, IBM and VMware talk about virtualizing your infrastructure using VMware vSphere running on the latest IBM servers powered by Intel Xeon processors - helping you...
- Tags: Processor, Financing, VMware Inc., Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., VMware vSphere, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware
- Webcasts 2009-07-20
- HP acquires cluster file storage software vendor IBRIX
-  Today, HP announced that they will be acquiring the startup cluster file storage software firm IBRIX in a deal with few disclosed details. Congrats to HP for making another interesting acquisition in the clustered storage space, following their Feb. 2007 acquisition of Polyserve and their October 2008 acquisition of Lefthand....
- Tags: Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBRIX, Storage, Hardware, Andrew Reichman
- Blog posts 2009-07-17
- What do you want from your next computer?
- What do you want from your next computer?I am happy with my laptop but battery too smallI have a Acer 5315-2715 which is really nice. I however hate to run this on the battery because I only have 2 hours or less depending on what I am doing.It would be...
- Tags: Notebooks, Engineering, PRODUCTIVITY, Processors, GPU, laptop computer, CPU, RAM, battery, computer, desktop
- Discussion threads 2009-07-17
- Platform Computing Announces Infrastructure Sharing Services
- The folks at Platform Computing are at it again. This time, they've announced a product to support cloud computing in the form of infrastructure as a service IaaS. They're calling it Platform Infrastructure Sharing Service ISF. As often is the case with a new product from a...
- Tags: Platform Computing Inc., Platform Infrastructure Sharing Facility, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g Technical
- Businesses want to minimize the cost of running business-critical applications, deliver new products and services at light speed for competitive advantage, and cope with ever-increasing customer Quality of Service QoS. They demand extreme and predictable performance, unlimited and linear scalability, continuous availability, efficient manageability and automatic/dynamic infrastructure provisioning at a...
- Tags: QoS, Oracle Corp., Scalability, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Securing Virtual Compute Infrastructure in the Cloud
- Server virtualization is one of the hottest topics in IT today. Initially driven by the need to consolidate servers to achieve higher hardware utilization rates, boost operational efficiency, and cut costs, enterprises more recently have implemented virtualization to get on-demand access to additional compute resources. This enables them to add...
- Tags: Sustainability, Savvis Communications, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2009-05-13
- Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for May/Jun 09
- Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for May/Jun 09Extreme - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295Oh yeah. I got one of those. It's ok I guess.Personally I would take AMD processorsover Intel, but that is just my opinion. I prefer a company that will stand behind its product for more...
- Tags: Processors, Very Best Kit List, May/Jun 09, Hardware 2.0, processor, hardware
- Discussion threads 2009-05-07
- 'Private cloud' = just another buzzword for on-premise datacenter?
- VMware made its big "private cloud" pitch last week with its introduction of vSphere. Not to be outdone, Microsoft is fleshing out its private cloud positioning at the annual Microsoft Management Summit this week in Las Vegas. Whether or not they admit it publicly (or just express...
- Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Corp., Cloud, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- A reason to refresh
- Intel did more than just introduce a faster server processor today with the introduction of the Xeon 5500: it enabled a greater level of differentiation to its server and storage vendor partners that ultimately will result in a broader set of choices and better ones for enterprise infrastructure & operations...
- Tags: Intel Xeon, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, James Staten
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- Nehalem servers could spark a $27bn feeding frenzy
- Nehalem servers could spark a $27bn feeding frenzyItanium doesn't stand a chance to NehalemOne things for sure (and probably why Intels Tukwila/Itanium has slipped by about a year) is that Itanium doesn't stand a chance against Nehalem and even when Tukwila does arrive, will have a tough ride against Nehalem-EX....
- Tags: Semiconductors, Servers, Processors, transistor, Nehalem, electron, Ballistic Deflection Transistor, single core server, Intel Itanium, server
- Discussion threads 2009-03-26
- Novell delivers SUSE Linux Enterprise 11
- As the other Linux provider, Novell goes to great lengths to differentiate its offering from rival Red Hat. The company's expansive version 11 platform is no exception, and is said to promise unique advances in virtualization, management, interoperability, high availability and desktop computing. ...
- Tags: Desktop, Novell Inc., SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, SuSE Linux, SuSE, High Availability Extension, Open Source, UNIX, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- Cisco's expected Unified Computing System splash raises a data center ruckus
- Cisco Systems on Monday is widely expected to launch network servers in a move that will put it in the virtualization business and potentially at odds with players like Hewlett-Packard and IBM. Cisco says it's merely doing what it has always done---investing in "market adjacencies during times that may cause...
- Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Blade, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
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