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Dual core - a lesson from history?
Blog We all know that dual-core computing has been a smashing success, because Intel and friends delight in telling us so. Indeed, lots and lots of dual core processors have been sold. However, I doubt many people sat down and decided that a dual-core...
[October 22, 2007, 0:21]
Dual-core Intel chips hit the market
News A few PC makers will start selling PCs containing dual-core chips from Intel on Monday, three days ahead of the debut of the dual cores. Although volumes of the Extreme Edition Pentium 4, code-named Smithfield, will initially be low, Intel will...
[April 18, 2005, 9:05]
Dual Boot: Windows Compute Cluster Server and Rocks Cluster Distribution
White Papers This paper describes the installation and configuration of a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster for a dual boot of Windows Compute Cluster Server (WCCS) and Rocks Cluster Distribution (formerly called NPACI Rocks), an open source Linux...
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
Dual-Processor Workstation Productivity in MCAD/AEC Environments
White Papers This white paper describes multi-core, multi-processor computing and the performance advantages of dual-processor, Xeon-based workstations. Dual-processor equipped xw6400 and xw8400 workstations provide better performance in typical MCAD/AEC...
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
Dual-Sink: Using Mobile and Static Sinks for Lifetime Improvement in Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers To address this problem, the paper proposes Dual-Sink, an energy-efficient and distributed protocol for data collection in wireless sensor networks. Mobile sink has been adopted by many schemes for lifetime improvement in wireless sensor networks.
[November 26, 2009, 23:00]
Networld+Interop: Dual offers sub-£1K MMX notebook
News Dual's Minerva is a 133MHz MMX-based unit with 16Mb EDO RAM, 1.4Mb hard drive, sound, 12.1-inch dual-scan screen, nickel metal hydride battery and Windows 95. Dual Technology: 01223-576622 It costs £999 + VAT.
[October 29, 1997, 14:34]
Dual-core servers review
Reviews Multi-core processor technology is having a big impact in the datacentre, with dual-core servers, in particular, now commonplace. Interestingly, Intel hasn’t been calling all the shots, with AMD's Opteron family of dual-core processors stealing a...
[February 26, 2007, 15:21]
Dual-core AMD Turion: slow out of the gate review
Reviews The early results on AMD's dual-core Turion 64 X2 mobile processor are not encouraging, either in terms of performance or power management. Although the nx6325 topped the Core Solo-based Toshiba Tecra A6 by 15 percent on SysMark, we expected a...
[June 26, 2006, 10:35]
Dual cores mean double trouble
Leader The news of impending dual-core chips is an exciting one, raising as it does the prospect of doing more jobs faster, better and eventually even cheaper than before. Intel this week raised the lid on its dual-core P4 which is now slated to ship in...
[February 8, 2005, 11:10]
Dual Boot: Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
White Papers This paper describes the installation and configuration of a High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster for a dual boot of Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (WCCS) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1.
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
Apple Power Mac G5 (dual 2.7GHz): a first look
Talkback Dual 2.3 Beside a card reader what expansion concerns do you have? I guess 800Gig of HD's and three open PCI slots isn't enough for you but it certainly is for an average user like me. Rick
[May 19, 2005, 16:53]
Dual core shoot-out: Intel versus AMD review
Reviews Dual core processors work best when software can run in parallel on them. The same cannot be said for Intel's dual core chips, the Pentium D 820 using 154W in Idle mode; unfortunately the Asus motherboard could not activate the Pentium D 820's...
[November 2, 2005, 23:00]
Dual-core chips will not share cache
News The dual-core chips that Advanced Micro Devices and Intel plan to bring to market next year won't be sharing their memories. Similarly, each core of the dual-core Opteron will have separate caches, said Marius Evers, a researcher at AMD.
[August 26, 2004, 8:20]
Dual NICs for niftier networking
News To improve the performance of a key application used at his company, Mike installed dual NICs in each of the servers hosting the application and configured NLB so that the servers share the workload. You can also install dual NICs to separate...
[July 23, 2002, 8:32]
Dual-core Xeon wait shortened
News Intel plans to release its first dual-core server processors this year instead of next, and it will employ an unusual manoeuvre to catch up to AMD in the key competitive area. Intel's "Paxville" dual-core version of Xeon, designed for machines with...
[August 16, 2005, 9:00]
Dual-Stage Servo Systems and Vibration Compensation in Computer Hard Disk Drives
White Papers The first is the use of high bandwidth dual-stage actuator servo systems to improve the precision and track-following capability of the read/write head positioning control system. This paper discusses two mechatronic innovations in magnetic hard...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Dual-core Opterons to debut early
News AMD is expected to launch new dual-core Opteron chips later this month, ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has learned. AMD will announce at an event on April 21 in New York that the first dual-core Opteron processors are available, months ahead of...
[April 8, 2005, 8:55]
Dual-core Itanium finally ready
News 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. Montecito will mean Intel has a dual-core answer to Sun and IBM, which have both sold dual-core...
[July 10, 2006, 10:30]
Dual cores mean double trouble
Talkback Fast foward to 2010, where we have dual multi-cored hyper-threaded P5 CPUs in a single desktop, and where the licensing plan for the latest MS operating system takes 10 pages of fine print to explain how much it should cost to install on this...
[February 8, 2005, 12:25]
Dual handsets solve CDMA puzzle
News Two Korean firms have unveiled dual-band phones that can be used on incompatible high-speed cellular data networks. Samsung Electronics has unveiled its as-yet unnamed dual-band phone compatible with both CDMA2000 1xEV-DO and rival standard WCDMA...
[October 22, 2003, 11:25]
