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- High-performance computing for Web 2.0
- At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz talks about the company's new high-performance computing facility in Austin, Texas, and how Web 2.0 companies like Facebook and Google are benefiting from high-performance computing systems.
- Tags: Web, High-performance Computing, Web 2.0, Leadership, Internet, Management, High Performance Computing
- Videos 2008-04-25
- Digipede Wins Microsoft ISV of the Year
- John Powers, CEO of Digipede, and I had a lovely conversation the other day. Before we could really examine the company's virtualization technology and approach to the market, John mentioned that his company was named Microsoft ISV/Software Solutions Partner of the Year in 2007. When one considers how many ISV...
- Tags: virtual processing software, high performance computing
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- Evergrid -- High Performance Computing in the Enterprise
- Recently I had the opportunity to speak with representatives of Evergrid, a company that focuses on how to apply high performance/grid computing techniques in enterprise computing environments. Since I've spoken to many companies attempting to deploy open source tools, such as Beowulf or Grid Engine, in commercial data centers, I...
- Tags: virtual processing software, Managing virtualized environments, high performance computing, clustering software
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Red Hat and Building the Open Source Virtualization Stack
- Since my conversation with the good folks at Red Hat (see Discussion with Red Hat’s Joel Berman and Nick Carr - 1st take) Ive been thinking about the companys strategy and how that plays out in the real world. Red Hat presents the notion that a stack of open source...
- Tags: virtualization, virtual storage software, virtual processing software, virtual machine software, virtual access software, Managing virtualized environments, high performance computing, clustering software
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- DataSynapse and application virtualization
- I was offered the opportunity to speak with Kelly Vizzini, CMO of DataSynapse, the other day. She introduced me to a new member of her staff, Shayne Higdon, VP of Marketing. Kelly and I have been part of panel discussions at several conferences on virtualization, grid computing and the like...
- Tags: virtualization, virtual processing software, Managing virtualized environments, high performance computing, clustering software
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
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- Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform
- In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...
- Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-08
- NVIDIA Inside?
- When you think about it, it doesn't."When you think about it, it makes a lot of sense."Not really."ATI has the backing of chipmaker AMD"Frankly, I think it's safer to say that AMD has the backing of ATI, considering how much they were hurt by the Core 2 and never recovered."and...
- Tags: Processors, NVidia Corp., CPU, Intel Corp., GPU
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Is Nvidia planning to add X86 compatibility to its chipsets?
- I hope soNVIDIA with x86-64 technology would be Next Big ThingTM, although I'd rather see a new architecture replace the aging x86. 64-bit is just a tack-on feature set of x86. I'd rather see something in line with IA64 from NVIDIA to shake up Intel. I'm sure...
- Tags: Processors, Video Decoding, chipset, Intel x86, CPU, NVidia Corp., Intel Corp., GPU, graphics, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Berkeley UPC 2.10.0 (Mac)
- Unified Parallel C UPC is an extension of the C programming language designed for high performance computing on large-scale parallel machines. The language provides a uniform programming model for both shared and distributed memory hardware. The programmer is presented with a single shared, partitioned address space, where variables may be...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Programming, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Unified Parallel C, Berkeley Unified Parallel C, Apple Mac OS X, Development Tools, Operating Systems, Processors, Software, Apple Mac OS, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-11-03
- News to know: Microsoft store; Domain names; Blackberry Storm2; VoIP; Android
- 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.: Robin Harris: A visit to Microsoft's first store Zack Whittaker: Web addresses to extend to non-English languages...
- Tags: Data Center, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Domain Name, Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Sales Strategy, Telephony, VOIP, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Data Management, Sales, Networking
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server
- What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2009-10-29
- News to know: Nook; Yahoo; Sun; Net Neutrality; Apple; Windows 7
- 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. Ed Burnette: Meet Nook: Barnes and Noble's sexy new book reader Matthew Miller: B&N Nook ebook reader revolutionizes...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Sun Microsystems Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Apple MacBook, Apple iMac, Apple Inc., Net Neutrality, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, E-books, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Notebooks, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Asus Eee Top ET2002
- Nvidia wants us to tell you that its GeForce 9400M graphics chip, aka Nvidia's Ion technology, pulls Asus' Eee Top ET2002 up from the depths of Nettop misery by imparting it with better-than-terrible graphics and video processing. We agree that the 9400 chip improves the ET2002's visual chops, but a...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Games, Semiconductors, Keyboards, Video cards, Game players, nettop, chip, game, HDMI, ASUS, graphics
- Product reviews 2009-10-20
- Best 'bang for the buck' graphics cards
- No Love for NVIDIA?I'm a little disappointed you only mention one GeForce card as if they can't compete with ATI. I'm sensing either sponsorship or bias, Adrian... but if it's genuinely based on performance, I'd love to see some benchmarking and justification for the claim.They just killed off......half the cards...
- Tags: Video cards, HD 4890, card, ATI Technologies Inc., NVidia Corp., video card, graphics
- Discussion threads 2009-10-16
- AMD posts another quarterly loss
- If AMD can't produce...a CPU that will compare with Intel in performance they may not be around for a lot longer. They are so completely outclassed by Intel i7 that they aren't even in the ball park. It is hard to believe they can't come up with something ant closer.I...
- Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, quarterly loss, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., CPU
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Netbooks may not be for everyone, but they're peachy in Ed
- No netbooks hereI'm at a campus with 2000 students, have not seen a netbook yet.Students have to do a LOT of typing for papers, and need a full size keyboard.RE: Netbooks may not be for everyone, but they're peachy in EdOur children are experienced users and will not be happy...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook
- Discussion threads 2009-10-14
- Let's get 64-bit sorted out before we think about 128-bit!
- Yes, it is time for 128 bitWhile 32 bit is not quite history yet it should be considered for history in the next release of windows which leaves us with 64 bit apps. However, apps continue to evolve requiring more memory and to do more for us. It is better...
- Tags: Network technology, 128-bit, 64-bit, 32-bit
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- Is NVIDIA dead?
- RE: Is NVIDIA dead?Give me a break!Don't forget IntelThere have been rumors for some time that Intel was going to enter the discrete graphics card market, with cards designed to work with their processors and MB chipsets. Perhaps nVidia felt like the market is getting squeezed too much to...
- Tags: Games, Video cards, NVidia Corp., game, graphics, Intel Corp., mid range
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- Adobe and Nvidia bring GPU computing to the masses
- Adobe and Nvidia announced that the next version of the Flash player will take advantage of Nvidia graphics processing units GPUs to improve online video. Adobe Flash Player 10.1, which will be in beta by the end of this year, will be designed to get a boost from Nvidia's GeForce,...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., NVidia Corp., Video, Computing, Graphics, Netbook, GPU, Ion, Mini 311, John Morris
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- DRAM error rates: nightmare on DIMM street
- Windows.Atleast From Vista has a Utility in Administrative tools in the control panel.Where in "About this Mac"?I'd just like to make sure I know the right place to look for errors. I look under "Hardware/Memory" and see a list of all 8 DIMM slots. There's a column for...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Memory, error rate, stable system, true meaning, DRAM
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
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