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- More images and products from supercomputing 2007
- The SC07 supercomputing conference was a very interesting show for me this year and it was my first time attending this conference. Here are some more interesting products that I haven't covered yet all the way from the very high-end to entry-level HPC computers. Sun's 3456-node "petascale" constellation cluster...
- Tags: Processor, Blade Server, Blade, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, Power Supply, Motherboard, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Supercomputing, Tyan, 1U, TST, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
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- Examining Intel's Skulltrail platform - and Skulltrail "on the cheap"
- On Saturday an old friend got in touch with me. He's found himself due to being unexpectedly made redundant moving from being an amateur video editor into doing this for a living. He's now finding that he's getting more and more work in but that his current hardware platform is...
- Tags: Board, Quad-core, Memory, Motherboard, Intel Corp., Skulltrail, Intel D5400XS, Corporate Governance, Processors, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Mac Pro is now the cheapest high-end workstation
- Mac Pro is now the cheapest high-end workstationIndeed but not at $3000You built a server not a wrkstation, and a stripped down server at that, without disk or memory, and without a decent workstation class garphic card.If you want to build a dual xeon with 1600 FSB today, and still...
- Tags: Workstations, MAC Pro, RAM, Apple Inc., workstation, memory
- Discussion threads 2008-01-28
- Build a Mac Pro equivalent workstation for 1/3 the cost
- Conventional wisdom tells us that a digital content creation and CAD professional had to fork out $6000 to $10,000 dollars for a high-end 8-core dual-processor workstation, but this is Real World IT where I say screw conventional wisdom. I've put on my mad scientist hat again and brewed something up...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Apple Macintosh, Memory, Wisdom, Dual Processor, Intel Corp., Mac Pro, FBDIMM, Series Motherboard, Chipsets, Serial ATA, Workstations, Mice, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Components, Storage, Peripherals, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- A comparison of quad-core server CPUs
- A comparison of quad-core server CPUsRE: A comparison of quad-core server CPUsI am a firm supporter of competition an so I cannot wait for AMD to sort out their quad CPU problems.Very timely post!George, hats off to you as usual. There has been a lot of talk on the DV...
- Tags: Processors, SuperMicro, Tom, quad-core, quad-core server, CPU, AMD Phenom
- Discussion threads 2008-01-02
- Quad-core PC project - Parts list
- Quad-core PC project - Parts listAlternative Motherboards?The Asus Striker has a price of $300. Any alternative motherboards that you would use to keep the price down?Cheaper motherboardI never spend more than $100 on a motherboard. And, I usually get the same features (which are usually more than I or...
- Tags: Processors, mother board, Asus Striker, motherboard, Quad-core PC, quad-core, ASUS
- Discussion threads 2007-09-03
- These things are awful!
- These things are awful!You've hit on all my objections to thin clients ...... and of course, you also have considered them well in advance of your purchase. You have also been realistic about you expectations and you've chosen to have a mixed environment for your more demanding applications. ...
- Tags: Thin clients, 64-bit, thin client, server, RAM
- Discussion threads 2007-04-06
- Can Dell change the Linux market?
- Can Dell change the Linux market?Red Hat/Dell Server Certification.Red Hat and SuSE had since some years ago (I think from 2002) Dell certified Servers.Almost all the Server series where Certified for Red Hat and SuSE but only the enterprise/supported distributions.Dell is not blind to the market requests ...And also there...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, desktop, Dell Computer Corp., Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-02-26
- Apple unveils 'pro' photo software, Power Mac Quad
- Apple unveils 'pro' photo software, Power Mac QuadWowApple coming through with another genious idea. Stock: Bought in at $14 and i've been riding this bich ever since.strangeIt seems very strange for apple to release photo editing software when I have found that mostall MAC people prefer Adobe products to acomplish...
- Tags: Desktops, Digital photography, POWERBOOKS, Apple Inc., photograph, Apple Power Mac, Power Mac Quad, Apple Macintosh, photo software, Aperture, software
- Discussion threads 2005-10-19
- Scale-up and scale-out
- Scale-up and scale-outAbove 4 SocketsAMD Opteron does not require a "bridge" to go above four sockets. Opteron is "glueless" up to eight sockets. However, comparing four socket to eight sockets, bisection bandwidth does not increase, and latency is doubled. So I agree, four sockets is the optimum...
- Tags: Processors, Barrons, Sun Microsystems Inc., AMD Opteron, SMP, Intel Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., socket
- Discussion threads 2005-09-23
- AMD releases a consumer electronics chip
- AMD releases a consumer electronics chipVery cool literallyNow you can put on FreeBSD and have a cheap inexpensive very quiet server that will not suck a lot of electricity for the home market. Now I hope it will be available for joe sixpack instead of some "appliance only" for a...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Notebooks, Network technology, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., SuSE, mini-ITX, laptop computer, consumer electronics chip, consumer electronics, chip
- Discussion threads 2005-05-22
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