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EMC, Cisco and VMware take aim at 'private cloud'
News The tight integration of all the components of the group's Vblock products means they operate more efficiently than virtualised infrastructure assembled from disparate parts, the companies said. Intel has joined Acadia as a minority investor, due...
[November 4, 2009, 15:01]
Intel brings Nehalem to notebooks
News Capable of scaling up to 100Gbps, Intel says it is planning to have components ready for manufacturers in 2010. Dadi Perlmutter, newly promoted general manager of the Intel Architecture Group in charge of processors, said next year would see the...
[September 24, 2009, 9:00]
Dell PowerEdge T710 review
Reviews Internal components are easy to remove and replace, thanks to Dell's colour-coded latches. The PowerEdge T710 supports two Xeon 5500-series processors and up to 144GB of RAM. The T710's six PCIe slots (two PCIe x16, four PCIe x8), 18 DIMM slots...
[September 21, 2009, 10:16]
Ten crucial server attributes
Articles This means that when a PSU fails — and moving parts such as the PSU fan along with hard disks are the server's most failure-prone components — the machine continues working. Crucial attribute 1: Processors
[September 18, 2009, 16:15]
ARM targets Intel with 2GHz multicore chips
News To date, ARM has mostly partnered with companies making components for wireless, consumer and automotive equipment. ARM claims that the new processors, which can run at up to 2GHz, are up to eight times more efficient than Intel's low-power chips...
[September 16, 2009, 10:00]
Supporting Systems That Have More Than 64 Processors: Guidelines for Developers
White Papers To scale up to support this expanded number of processors, some applications and Windows kernel-mode components require modification. The 64-bit versions of Windows 7 support more than 64 logical processors on a single machine.
[September 16, 2009, 1:22]
How Intel turned failure into success
News Timna was a system-on-a-chip (SoC) design, which combined a processor with some of the other components necessary to build a PC. It is one that started nine years ago with a failure that threatened to derail the career of Dadi Perlmutter, the very...
[September 15, 2009, 14:01]
Acer TravelMate 8000 Timeline Series review
Reviews Other power-saving components include solid-state hard drives instead of mechanical drives and the Acer PowerSmart key, which provides access to advanced battery usage controls. The series comprises several notebooks, all of which use Intel's Ultra...
[August 24, 2009, 10:12]
HP ProLiant DL380 G6 review
Reviews The front panel is re-arranged but not hugely, with easy access to storage, a couple of USB ports and a small display panel (the Systems Insight Display) to quickly identify failing components. Pre-failure analysis means disks and other components...
[August 20, 2009, 12:39]
Dell PowerEdge R710 review
Reviews For example, the optional front bezel has been redesigned to stop customer-applied labels interfering with airflow, while the chassis has been tweaked to provide even easier access to all of the components.
[August 20, 2009, 12:38]
IBM System x3650 M2 review
Reviews The chassis is conventional enough, with the usual IBM build quality providing easy tool-free access to all of the major components. Another benefit of buying from IBM is its predictive failure technology, whereby components can be swapped out...
[August 20, 2009, 12:37]
Microsoft patents XML word processing documents
Blog The patent also specifies that the document can contain formatting information such as line, paragraph and page breaks, font styles and sizes, and other standard components of text documents. On the face of it, the patent would appear to cover all...
[August 7, 2009, 12:22]
Constricted Internet Connections
Blog The ability of the device drivers, the design of the radio components in the wireless Ethernet adapter and the operating system to deliver the desired data product to the User will probably be the major components of this “data device impedance”.
[June 29, 2009, 11:32]
DIY Dual Atom Nettop System
Blog Sounds like a desktop version of a netbook, so I suppose nettop is an appropriate name, and I saw it used a few times as I was looking for components. Intel says that the hyperthreading in the Atom causes the Dual CPU to appear as four processors...
[June 5, 2009, 13:41]
Cambridge rents out HPC for the cloud
News Mass take-up of supercomputing will also be made easier by the drop in hardware prices, with high-cost proprietary HPC hardware giving way to off-the-shelf components and teraflops of processing power available for a fraction of the previous price.
[May 11, 2009, 16:57]
Start-up promises to speed web data access
News The appliances use the newest versions of industry-standard components. By using these components, which have been optimised for speed, Schooner said it believed it could speed up web access by eight times compared with most datacentre servers.
[April 15, 2009, 15:30]
BERTL iTchat: Samsung UK's Ambitious Plans for B2B Domination
White Papers One of Samsung's advantages in developing its printer products is its ability to source many of its own hardware components, including processors, LCD panels, and memory chips, along with design and software.
[March 1, 2009, 0:24]
ARM shows off 32nm mobile processor
News The chip combines ARM's Cortex processor designs with Physical IP prototype libraries, which ARM bought in by acquiring Artisan Components in 2004, and the test chip is based on IBM's Common Platform.
[February 16, 2009, 11:35]
Intel delays next Itanium server chip again
News Production of mainboard components, including the buffer chip, will begin in the second quarter of the year. Intel's spokesperson added that the company also wanted to "ensure socket compatibility between the Tukwila processor and future...
[February 6, 2009, 15:43]
AMD chip bundle targets 'ultra-thin' notebooks
News The company also has Sempron processors for that category of laptop. All AMD's ultra-thin-centric processors are manufactured using 65nm technology. AMD has launched a chip bundle for 'ultra-thin' notebooks, by which it means laptops that are...
[January 6, 2009, 14:35]
