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HP doubles up Itanium processors
News This will enable owners of mid- and high-range HP servers (everything with four or more processor sockets) to double the number of processors. The mx2 board means that HP's high-end servers will now be able to accommodate up to 128 processors.
[May 5, 2004, 14:10]
Dell gives 64-bit processors another chance
News The new machine will be based on two Itanium 2 processors and will be able to use up to 16GB of RAM and 292GB of hard-drive storage, Dell said. Dell is wading back into 64-bit computing waters with a new rack-mount server.
[June 26, 2003, 9:25]
Virtualization on Servers With Intel Xeon Processors Helps DDS Dresdner Direktservice GmbH to Achieve Better Performance at Lower Cost
White Papers This decision was prompted by successful trials on two servers with multi-core Intel Xeon processors. Virtualization with servers based on multi-core Intel Xeon processors has helped DDS to reduce its IT costs and protect its investments for...
[November 8, 2008, 0:01]
IBM sells off PowerPC processors
News IBM on Tuesday sold three of its PowerPC processors in a licensing deal with Applied Microcircuits, a 25-year-old networking and storage chip company. Under the agreement, IBM will transfer its PowerPC 403, 405 and 440 processors to Applied...
[April 13, 2004, 16:55]
An Assessment of Leadership Performance With POWER6 Processors and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1
White Papers The IBM System p 570 with POWER6 processors provides leadership performance and demonstrates excellent scalability moving from one node to four nodes in this environment while providing linear SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessing) scaling and growth for...
[April 9, 2008, 1:02]
Axe falls on AMD low-end processors
News AMD is to stop producing its K6-2 processors next summer, in a move that some are calling a "major blow" to the embedded market. The company also plans to stop production of its 486 and 586 processors which, like the bulk of the K6-2s now produced...
[August 14, 2001, 17:20]
Code Transformation Strategies for Extensible Embedded Processors
White Papers This paper shows why compilers should sometimes make different decisions when targeting customized processors, and they show how traditional ISE identification techniques can improve significantly if the code is properly transformed in order to...
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
Architecture and Compiler Optimizations for Data Bandwidth Improvement in Configurable Processors
White Papers Many commercially available embedded processors are capable of extending their base instruction set for a specific domain of applications. While steady progress has been made in the tools and methodologies of automatic instruction set extension for...
[September 1, 2009, 1:23]
Supporting Flexible Streaming Media Protection Through Privacy-Aware Secure Processors
White Papers The research in the computer architecture community has shown that secure processors can help to defend various types of attacks such as those with a hijacked and malicious OS. Due to the explosion of Internet technology in the last decade, there...
[November 29, 2008, 23:00]
Computer Vision on Multi-Core Processors: Articulated Body Tracking
White Papers The recent emergence of multi-core processors enables a new trend in the usage of computers. Recent multi-core processors can potentially serve the needs of such workloads. This paper studies the performance of an articulated body tracker on multi...
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
News Focus: 64-bit processors power up chip forum
News Monday 8th October New technology will allow computers to handle 20GHz processors See Chips Central for the latest headlines on processors and semiconductors. LATEST NEWS ARM to unveil 64-bit Jaguar chip for handhelds
[October 16, 2001, 13:14]
Server Consolidation Using Quad-Core Processors
White Papers The quad-core processors were also 34 percent faster than the Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 5148 running the same consolidated workloads, with workload completion times remaining much more uniform and predictable as the number of workloads...
[May 14, 2008, 1:01]
Quad-core processors get an airing
News Intel demonstrated two quad-core processors Tuesday, Clovertown for servers and Kentsfield for PCs, directing attention toward the future during a more troubled present. Pat Gelsinger, a senior vice president in Intel's Digital Enterprise Group...
[March 8, 2006, 8:15]
1GHz processors trickle into Europe
News PCs based on the brand-spanking-new 1GHz processors from Intel and AMD are beginning to appear -- but don't count on being able to easily get your hands on one if you live outside the US. But now that the processors are actually available, most top...
[March 17, 2000, 6:00]
BigTux project shows Linux scaling to 64 processors
News HP on Tuesday demonstrated Linux scaling to 64 processors on its Superdome hardware as it seeks to reassure customers who are increasingly considering the open source operating system for enterprise applications.
[January 18, 2005, 14:55]
CPU roadmap: server processors review
Reviews In the world of processors, attention seems firmly focused on the fast-paced desktop and mobile markets. At the time of writing (June 2008), Intel leads with its well-established family of Xeon server processors all now based on the Core micro...
[June 16, 2008, 11:38]
Can a File System Virtualize Processors?
White Papers Supercomputers comprise more and more processors and these processors are increasingly heterogeneous, with differing performance characteristics. It virtualizes the performance characteristics of processors; this allows their heterogeneity to be...
[May 8, 2007, 1:00]
Winners: AMD Athlon 64 processors
News The ZDNet UK competition to win three AMD Athlon 64 3500+ processors is now closed, and we have selected three lucky winners. Congratulations -- your Athlon 64 processors will be on their way to you shortly.
[January 24, 2005, 14:25]
Modeling Multi-Threaded Processors
White Papers Multiple processors are connected to a common memory pool and a combination of hardware and operating system functions permit work to be balanced across the entire unit. This paper explains a conceptual architecture developed for modeling multi...
[May 1, 2009, 1:18]
Server Consolidation With Intel Xeon Processors and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
White Papers Server consolidation with Intel Xeon processors and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V can dramatically improve server density, and allow businesses to provide drastically more services using the same power, cooling, and data center facilities.
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
