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(Photos: SC07 supercomputing )Supermicro X7DCA-3Hello George,On the motherboard in this photo:http://content.zdnet.com/2346-10533_22-175562-18.html... are those LGA-775 sockets, or Xeon sockets?I can't find anything yet at Supermicro's website.Thanks!Sincerely yours,/s/ Paul Andrew MitchellWebmaster, Supreme Law Libraryhttp://www.supremelaw.org/RE: (Photos: SC07 supercomputing )32 Cores , 4.7 Ghz ? that's some pretty weak core action, and liquid cooled...

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Discussion threads 2007-11-14

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News to know: iPhone; DNS patch; Online privacy; VMware; Vista

Notable headlines: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: A Modest Privacy Proposal Richard Koman: Congress looks at next-gen ad networks Techmeme: iPhone reviews Matthew Miller: MSM Apple iPhone reviews are up and may just have saved me some cash ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, DNS, Online Privacy, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., HP iPAQ 910, 3G, Domain Names, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Photos: Supercomputing at Oak Ridge

Just outside Knoxsville, Tenn., lies one of the world's great supercomputer labs. CNET News' Daniel Terdiman takes a tour. by CNET News.com

Tags: Supercomputer, Photograph, Supercomputing, CNET News, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-07-08

Microsoft's manycore strategy

The post on Apple's Grand Central multicore support in OS X.vi had some commenters claiming that Microsoft had already solved the multicore software problem. Far from it. And Microsoft knows it Microsoft has a multi-pronged campaign to get in front of multicore. They're hiring smart...

Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, MR, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-06-25

News to know: Firefox 3.0 flaw; Windows 7; IT failures; HP

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0 Dancho Danchev: A security company wants you to DDoS its servers Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Alabama's Broadband Tide Mary Jo Foley: Will Google deliver its own dynamic language runtime?...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, Flaw, Web Browsers, Data Centers, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-19

IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPC

IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPCSupercomputer Uses.I don't want to sound dumb, but unless the NNSA does nuclear simulations couldn't they keep track of their nuclear stockpile with a Windows, Linux or Mac machine? :-)Update: I read another article related to the supercomputer that states they...

Tags: Game players, Sony Playstation, supercomputing, IBM Corp., HPC, Intel Corp., chip, Crysis

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPC

Supercomputers are like muscle cars for IT: Few of us have one, but boy they are fun to look at. IBM on Tuesday touted that its supercomputer built for the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos National Lab is the most powerful system in the world. It...

Tags: Supercomputer, Blade, Sony Playstation, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Chip, Supercomputing, NNSA Supercomputer, Roadrunner, Roadrunner System, Intel Quad-core Blade System, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-18

TechNet Webcast: Windows HPC Server 2008: High Availability and Diagnostics for High-Performance Computing (Level 100)

The Windows Server 2008 operating system is the next generation of the Windows Server that is designed to help High-Performance Computing HPC administrators maximize control over their infrastructure, while providing enhanced availability and management capabilities. This leads to a significantly more secure, reliable server environment than ever before. Windows HPC...

Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Windows Server, High Availability, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Software

Webcasts 2008-05-23

Unixfication II

Can the Linux community get over its "not invented here" ideology which has often hindered its ability to adopt technological improvements from outside sources? I keep saying to myself, I hope so. But recent events have shown me that we have a long way to go until we become a...

Tags: GPL, Virtualization, Kernel, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Sun Solaris, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-05-08

OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up

What would Ubuntu be like if it were an OS for grown-ups? This week at its CommunityOne event in San Francisco, Sun will release its May 2008 build of OpenSolaris (2008.05) the Open Source operating system based on the source code of the...

Tags: Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, Sun Solaris 10, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., BSD, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-05-05

I'm not against Windows; Unix just works better

I'm biased in favor of Unix and against Windows - everybody knows that except me; my perception is that I like things that work and Unix works better. Potential client: "Look, you've got a rep and we're concerned you're just going to recommend Solaris on SPARC -...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., PC, Sun Microsystems Inc., Beer Money, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Sun Solaris, Open Source, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Processors, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-03-26

Microsoft, Intel to team on new parallel, multicore research efforts

Microsoft, Intel to team on new parallel, multicore research effortsJoint effort to monopolize the next 20 years...It's about time...Somebody put money into CS research, especially parallel stuff. Maybe this money will spur others to do likewise. Maybe CS departments will now be able to "rise from the ashes" of the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, multi-core, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., new Parallel, F/OSS, parallel, team

Discussion threads 2008-03-17

Microsoft, Intel to team on new parallel, multicore research efforts

In what has become a not-so-secret secret, Microsoft and Intel are set to unveil on March 18 their joint funding of more parallel-processing research work, according to various industry reports. EETimes says the Wintel couple will announce it is helping fund the new Parallel Computing Lab at...

Tags: Team, Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Intel Corp., EETimes, Microsoft Research Folk, Dryad, Team Management, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-17

News to know: IE 8; eBay security; Microhoo; Favorite Windows programs; Apple

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft caves: 'Super-standards' mode to become IE 8 default. Microsoft's IE blog Microsoft, Nokia to port Silverlight to Symbian phones Nate McFeters: eBay Red Team Event - Creating Security Awareness and Sharing Strategies Ed Bott's 10 Favorite...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-04

Supercomputing and the art of the sales pitch

Supercomputers are wonderful things. Meaningful research gets done and geeks everywhere can drool over the specs like car buffs fawning over a vintage Corvette. But there's also a subtle sales pitch, which explains why most large tech vendors play like IBM and HP play in the high-performance computing space. ...

Tags: Supercomputer, Sun Microsystems Inc., Supercomputing, Sales Strategy, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-03

Forget AMD, Intel should buy Nvidia

AMD stock is in the tank right now, so proposals have been circulating they might be an acquisition target. However this combination makes no sense to me, and it took me a while to figure out why. Intel should be the one buying, and they should be buying Nvidia. ...

Tags: NVidia Corp., ATI Technologies Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Intel Corp., AMD Stock, Mergers & Acquisitions, Chipsets, Investment, Finance, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-02-25

"Follow the Money"

When he uttered those three words in "All the President's Men," the Deep Throat character was aptly describing the workings of American government, past and present. Today we follow the money with a quick look at the latest budget proposals from the lame duck White Housers. More for...

Tags: SLATE, Budget, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Government, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Nanotechnology, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Finance, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-02-05

Parsing the federal budget: The tech highlights

President Bush unveiled his $3.1 trillion--yes trillion--fiscal 2009 budget and there are a lot of technology highlights to go around. Whether this budget ever gets approved anywhere near its current state remains to be seen (fiscal 2008's budget isn't official), but directionally there are some key highlights....

Tags: Budget, National Science Foundation, NASA, Department Of Veteran Affair, VA, Nanotechnology, Hacking, Semiconductors, Security, Viruses And Worms, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-05

My 2007 predictions - wrong, wrong, and wrong

Since this week has been about green, it's time to add some Christmass contrast: blushing red. Here are my key 2007 IT predictions from December 28th, 2006 Vista will make billions for Microsoft - driven by praise from the same...

Tags: OpenSolaris, Hewlett-Packard Co., Prediction, IBM Corp., OpenSolaris Community, Sun Solaris, Corporate Communications, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Processors, Software, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-12-14

AMD Stream Computing: Software Stack

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. AMD - a leading global provider of innovative computing solutions - is working with other leading companies and academic institutions worldwide to deliver a complete, accelerated computing ecosystem with software and tools necessary to turn its high performance, low cost, supercomputing vision into reality. AMD's Stream...

Tags: Software, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Computing, Advanced Micro Devices Stream Computing, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management

White papers 2007-12-06