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Intel scraps once-crucial Itanium feature

Intel scraps once-crucial Itanium featureFishy...."Support for IA-32 EL is necessary for operating systems on Montecito, according to the manual."Why should this be required for all OSs on IA, if as the article states, hardly anyone is running 32-bit software on Itanium CPUs?Itanium doomed from the start.Intel's ambitious Itanium project was...

Tags: Processors, Inhell, EPIC architecture, Intel Itanium, chip, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-01-19

Itanium: A cautionary tale

Itanium: A cautionary talepoor performance per dollarunfortunately everyone has a budget, for the price of a single itanium cpu (1.5Ghz = $1900) you can have a complete entry level dual-core system.History lessonSun became the number one UNIX vendor when they came out with SPARC. One thing they did was to...

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Processors, EPIC architecture, Inhell, chip, Digital Equipment Corp., EPIC, Alpha, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP PA-RISC, Itanic, Intel Itanium

Discussion threads 2005-12-07

Itanium allies to pool development efforts

Itanium allies to pool development effortsThe Problem With Itanium . . .was that everyone kind of expected it to be the 64 bit motherload that the Xeon was to x386. Well, that hasn't materialized and with good reason. Sure 5,000 apps is a good start, but until M$...

Tags: Processors, 64-bit, Network technology, EPIC architecture, Intel Itanium, chip, HP PA-RISC

Discussion threads 2005-08-30

HP gives schools a break

HP gives schools a breaksource code?One advantage that Linux and the free BSDs offer, is that the source code is available, so that students can examine approaches to O/S design. Universities have a soft spot for Linux and the BSDs, due to the roots of the O/Ss. ;)Not to...

Tags: Utility computing, Linux, UNIX, Processors, Operating systems, Intel IA-64, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP-UX, EPIC architecture

Discussion threads 2004-10-19

HP discontinues its Itanium workstations

HP discontinues its Itanium workstationsItanium is doneBut its significance is more than that: it will forever be Intel's biggest mistake, the one that gave real birth to AMD's (Opteron's) existence.Not so fast, Jeff . . .. . . This may prove that any one company can no longer foist its...

Tags: Processors, Network technology, workstation, Hewlett-Packard Co., EPIC architecture, Intel Itanium, Alpha, Itanic, 64-bit

Discussion threads 2004-09-24

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News to know: E-readers; Web OS and IT; VMware; Cisco

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dion Hinchcliffe: How the Web OS has begun to reshape IT and business Oliver Marks: Course Credits as a...

Tags: E-reader, Sony Corp., Google Inc., Web, Virtualization, Information Technology, Amazon.com Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Camera, E-books, Open Source, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-08

Gowalla 1.1 (Mobile)

Gowalla is a location-based travel game that rewards you for visiting both everyday and extraordinary places with your iPhone 3G. Whether you are traveling cross-country on vacation or simply traveling down the street to your favorite watering hole, check in with Gowalla to add to your collection of unique passport...

Tags: Mobile, Alamofire, Gowalla, 3G, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-07-22

Behind the Microsoft skepticism on Health IT

Behind the Microsoft skepticism on Health ITIs this like the internet all over again?Wasn't it Microsoft who said the internet is a useless fad right up until they released internet explorer?Sometimes, letting others make the mistakes first is wise.And when it comes to IT health care there are thousands of...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Health IT, health care, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-23

How to end the Fail Whales? With Blue Whales.

How to end the Fail Whales? With Blue Whales.Scary link about the Scala language interview you providedThat sure doesn't instill confidence. All this talk about using a languange "you are passionate about" blew me way.You have a service here that is failing miserably in terms of performance, and these jokers...

Tags: C/C++, Firewalls, Programming languages, Blue Whales, Fail Whales

Discussion threads 2009-04-11

Transitioning SAP Environments From HP 9000 Servers Running HP-UX 11i to HP Integrity Servers Running HP-UX 11i

To take advantage of the higher processing power and new architecture of the Intel Itanium processor, application binaries are recompiled for HP-UX on HP Integrity servers. HP-UX source code compatibility between PA-RISC and Itanium has enabled a simple and safe transition procedure. SAP applications and the backend database, are clearly...

Tags: HP Integrity, HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP 9000, Environment, Oracle11i, Intel Itanium, SAP AG, HP PA-RISC, UNIX, Operating Systems, Processors, Servers, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

White papers 2009-02-01

Kaiser links with Microsoft HealthVault

Kaiser Permanente will test data transfers to Microsoft HealthVault, creating a mechanism where over 2 million people will be able to quickly create Personal Health Records over the next year. The Kaiser system goes by the name My Health Manager. Kaiser spent an estimated...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Kaiser Permanente, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-09

The obligatory "Victoria Falls" post

The obligatory "Victoria Falls" postThe 800 lb Gorilla in the roomThere is no doubt that Moore's Law is making some very amazing things happen in CPU land. The T2+ would be even better if Sun could make CPUs that can clock to 4 Ghz (or EVEN 2 Ghz), but for...

Tags: Network technology, Processors, T2+, T2

Discussion threads 2008-04-15

HIMSS moving on interoperability roadmap

One of the big problems in hospital computing has long been simple interoperability. Given the high sales cost and high value of a hospital sale, vendors resist this. Proprietary protections make the HIMSS show floor look like a trip back to the 1980s. There are big booths...

Tags: Open Standard, Goal, Workflow, Hospital Computing, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-27

Ubuntu "Hardy Heron" announced

Ubuntu "Hardy Heron" announcedHow do they do it?A new version every six months, with every time important improvements.... how do they do it?I guess that's the power of open source. A power house if there ever was one!I've used Ubuntu since july 2006: Dapper Drake 6.06 was my first. That...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, Ralink, Ubuntu, Hardy Heron, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-08-29

HP vs. Compaq: the 100,000 foot financial view

HP vs. Compaq: the 100,000 foot financial viewCarly's FollyWe all knew this at the time - everyone except Carly and her cronies. She wanted to grab Compaq's customers, and in the end she did. HP now outsells Dell on both x86 clients and servers. So in an era where PC...

Tags: Sales strategy, UNIX, Operating systems, Sales force management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Servers, financial, HP Now, Hewlett-Packard Co., Compaq Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-07-05

Excalibur: Morgana\'s Revenge (Windows) 3.0.1 (Windows)

EMR 3.0 is a unique scenario based upon the Aleph One Marathon engine. It is a first-person action adventure game, featuring an epic and in-depth story line. As a Federation Marine resting after your last mission, you start aboard the exploration class Starship Kronos where you learn that your real...

Tags: Engine, ExcaliburWorld, EMR 3.0, Microsoft Windows, Games, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-06-09

Practice Fusion brings free, on demand service to physicians

San Francisco-based startup Practice Fusion is hoping to do for medical practice management and electronic health records EHR what salesforce.com did for CRM. Practice Fusion is on demand suite of physician applications that includes practice management including claims and billing, electronic medical records, scheduling and a patient portal. ...

Tags: Patient, Physician, Electronic Health Record, Health Care, Practice Fusion, Ryan Howard, Electronic Health Records System, E-health, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-03-16

Who's afraid of parallelism?

Who's afraid of parallelism?Good theoretical modelIf by "theory" you mean "modern mainstream programming languages" then I agree that there is no "theoretical" model for parallel computing. Except for SQL, which can be automatically parallelized.However, anything designed around a nondeterministic finite automata would be inherently parallel for most problems, and...

Tags: Network technology, Processors, Programming languages, Development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Cray Inc., parallelism, SDK, chip

Discussion threads 2006-11-30

IBM's Power6 gets help with math, multimedia

IBM's Power6 gets help with math, multimediaCan't count to 10.It only counts to 9 ... 0 to 9, not 1 to 10. :) Still, it's an interesting way to go with processors.here comes Skynet!if a computer can do 2+(2*3-10/2.5)/2 without a binary conversion, then it's not much longer...

Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, multimedia, IBM POWER6, IBM Corp., processor, chip

Discussion threads 2006-10-10

Intel to extend x86 for new tasks

Intel to extend x86 for new tasksAMD's got the integrated mem controller - so there.The integrated memory controller is the real breakthrough of the millenium. This AMD invention coupled with their other invention of 64bits rivals even Apple's supreme invention of the color white.just propoganda or beta me thisbla bla...

Tags: Semiconductors, Processors, Network technology, 64-bit, Intel Corp., cyclical redundancy check, chip, integrated memory controller, memory controller, Intel x86, CPU, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-09-27