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Sun, HP speed Unix servers
News Its midrange Unix servers with four, eight or 16 processors are now available with the PA-RISC 8700+, an 875MHz chip that the company introduced in its top-end Superdome servers. Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard will give a boost to their Unix...
[August 6, 2002, 8:26]
IBM to build Europe's biggest supercomputer
News The eServer pSeries 680, IBM's current high-end offering, and the predecessor to this machine, has a performance rating on par with Hewlett-Packard's Superdome and Sun Microsystems's E10000, Gelardi said.
[May 18, 2001, 15:13]
New CPUs fuel server competition
News At the high end, IBM's line of "Regatta" servers, the pSeries 690, with 32 processors competes head-on against Sun's 64-processor Fire 15K, HP's 64-processor Superdome, and Fujitsu's 128-processor Primepower 2000.
[April 17, 2002, 15:11]
IBM stays top of the supercomputer league
News The Superdome system gave HP a bigger presence on the previous Top 500 list in June, increasing from 41 systems on the list to 153, but most of those appear in the bottom 100. IBM has captured three victories in the supercomputer realm, maintaining...
[November 9, 2001, 12:07]
HP announces Itanium server upgrades
News New Integrity models with the chip include the dual-processor rx1620-2 starting at $4,119; the dual-processor rx2620-2 starting at $5,614; the four-processor rx4640-8 starting at $16,600; eight-processor the Integrity rx7620-16 starting at $18,995...
[January 18, 2005, 7:45]
Microsoft sets Windows Server 2003 RTM date
News We've been working with HP on its 64-way SuperDome servers," said Tennant. Microsoft has set 12 March as the release to manufacture date for the six new versions of its server operating system, paving the way for a shipping date of 29 April.
[February 24, 2003, 6:09]
'Cheap' NEC server tops speed test
News It will release 64-processor Superdome systems initially, then through a technology code-named Hondo that plugs two Itanium processors into a single socket, will sell 128-processor Itanium systems. An NEC server with 32 of Intel's forthcoming...
[April 24, 2003, 10:26]
NEC is king of the supercomputers
News The top computers in the other categories are IBM's eServer pSeries p690 for enterprise servers costing more than $1m, Hewlett-Packard's SuperDome with PA-8700 processors running at 750MHz for divisional servers costing less than $1m, and HP's...
[May 17, 2002, 11:07]
HP to double up Itanium chips
News The company's high-end Superdome server now can accommodate 64 PA-RISC chips, but a version coming in 2003 with the new PA-RISC 8800 processors will use 128 of them. Beginning in 2004, Hewlett-Packard will pair up future Itanium chips so that twice...
[October 25, 2002, 7:33]
Dual-core Itanium finally ready
News The computer maker plans to revamp its "Arches" Superdome server with Montecito. Intel will launch its "Montecito" version of Itanium, the first dual-core version of the processor, on 18 July, sources familiar with the event said.
[July 10, 2006, 10:30]
