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IBM Uses Grid Computing Solutions To Become Faster, More Flexible
White Papers The solution is Grid computing solutions enabling IBM Systems and Technology Group to share resources more efficiently within and across groups. The benefits include better test coverage resulting in higher quality chips with fewer "re-spins...
[September 13, 2004, 0:00]
Leibniz Computing Center Achieves 10x Faster Supercomputer Data Services With NetApp Solution
White Papers The Leibniz Computing Center provides IT services for Munich universities and for the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Ensure highest data consistency and availability to support more than 120 technical and scientific High Performance...
[July 20, 2007, 0:00]
Intel's Itanium: A Leap Too Far?
Leader The move to 64-bit computing is inevitable: when it's no longer unusual for desktops to ship with up to 1GB of RAM, the 4GB limit imposed by 32-bit computing will seem uncomfortably close. AMD meanwhile snatched the crown with its Opteron launch a...
[September 8, 2004, 13:05]
What Do The Latest Security Threats Mean For Your Business?
News But computing power isn't free, so the time analogy still holds. As with all cryptographic algorithms, you can expect that someone will eventually break it, but researchers believed it would take a tremendous amount of time and/or computing power...
[March 1, 2005, 12:05]
HP Thin Client Computing: A Financial Services Industry Solution Brief
White Papers This HP white paper explains why thin client computing is ideally suited for today's financial services institutions, which face key challenges in the areas of customer retention, operational excellence, productivity, and compliance.
[February 12, 2007, 23:00]
HP Thin Client Computing: A Financial Services Industry Solution Brief
White Papers This HP white paper explains why thin client computing is ideally suited for today's financial services institutions, which face key challenges in the areas of customer retention, operational excellence, productivity, and compliance.
[February 12, 2007, 23:00]
SGI's Midrange Unix Server Gets An Update
News The new system comes with the faster MIPS R16000 processors, compared to the R14000 processors in the Origin 300, Addison Snell, SGI's product manager for high performance computing, said in an interview.
[April 16, 2003, 10:47]
AMD Speeds Chips For Faster Chatter
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) aims to increase the performance of PCs and other computing devices with an internal connection that increases the both the speed and amount of data that get ferried between chips.
[February 15, 2001, 8:33]
Green Supercomputer Unveiled In Edinburgh
News Maxwell only takes up two computer racks at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC). Regarding Maxwell's place in "green" computing, Parsons said: "You've got to look at novel technologies. Maxwell has been developed by the FPGA High...
[March 21, 2007, 9:22]
Hard Disk Makers Collaborate For More Speed
News Hard drives are a key bottleneck in computers, doubly so for servers that often struggle to keep up with computing loads such as keeping track of all a bank's ATM transactions. Serial connections are cropping up all over the computing industry as a...
[November 28, 2001, 9:10]
SGI Counts In Montecito
News SGI, which specialises in machines for high-performance technical-computing jobs such as aerodynamics simulations, plans to release its next-generation Altix model at the same time that Intel releases its new "Montecito" version of Itanium, said...
[December 23, 2004, 9:05]
Harnessing The Power Of Corporate P2P
News They want you to join the P2P movement, and they want you to believe that it's inevitable, because if this really is the dawn of a computing sea change, they want to profit as your P2P partner from early on.
[June 13, 2001, 10:35]
IDF: Intel 'hyper-threading' Doubles Chip Power
News A chip with hyper-threading won't equal the computing power of two Pentium 4's, but the performance boost is substantial, Poulin said. Gigahertz are necessary for the evolution and improvement of computing.
[August 29, 2001, 8:25]
Palm To Tap Colour For Next Release
News Palm Computing is bringing colour to its world. It is also expected in February, sometime after Palm Computing becomes Palm in an initial public offering. Palm Computing is also expected to reduce prices on its existing Palm hardware before...
[February 1, 2000, 8:54]
Sun To Unveil Stackable Data-centre Boxes
News On Tuesday, the company plans to unveil "Project Blackbox", which tucks several racks of computing gear, along with the necessary power and cooling equipment, into a standard shipping container 8ft wide, 8ft tall and 20ft long.
[October 17, 2006, 10:30]
Pros And Cons Of Going 64-bit
News Just as the transition from 16-bit to 32-bit PCs in the 1980s greatly increased computing power, the leap from 32-bit to 64-bit will double the amount of data that a processor can handle on each clock cycle.
[August 21, 2006, 15:10]
Intel Chips Lift New Dell Servers
News One of the new systems, for instance, comes with Intel chips that feature hyper-threading, a new technology that uses the chip's internal computing elements more efficiently. These "hot-plug" fans and power supplies are aimed at demanding customers...
[February 20, 2002, 11:31]
Prejudiced Against The Thin
News Experts have long touted the benefits of thin-client computing, but experts have also touted the benefits of spirulina and yurts. If you think about it, the idea here is to provide a cost-effective computing solution.
[August 10, 2005, 17:05]
Intel Launches Penryn Chips
News This fundamental part of the transistor provides the foundation for computing as the part that determines whether a transistor is off or on, a "0" or a "1". SPECint_rate is a general measure of transactional performance that's important to business...
[November 12, 2007, 7:36]
Merced: Intel's 64 Bit Revolution
News A major new technology featured in the Merced processor is called EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing), something which you're bound to hear a lot more about as we approach the chip's debut.
[March 16, 1999, 16:23]
