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Configurable Isolation: Building High Availability Systems With Commodity Multi-Core Processors
White Papers This paper proposes a novel, cost-effective, architecture for high availability systems built from future multi-core processors. High availability is an increasingly important requirement for enterprise systems, often valued more than performance.
[May 1, 2007, 1:00]
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]
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]
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]
Exploiting IBM zIIP Processors to Reduce z/OS Monitoring Costs
White Papers To actually realize such savings, sites must identify and migrate workloads currently running on mainframe's traditional General Purpose (GP) Processors to one of the cheaper Specialty Processor types.
[August 30, 2009, 1:22]
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]
Achieving Computational I/O Efficiency in a High Performance Cluster Using Multicore Processors
White Papers The recent popularity of multicore processors provides a flexible way to increase the computational capability of clusters. Although the system performance may improve with multicore processors in a cluster, I/O requests initiated by multiple cores...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
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]
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]
Supporting Systems That Have More Than 64 Processors: Guidelines for Developers
White Papers The 64-bit versions of Windows 7 support more than 64 logical processors on a single machine. This paper provides information about the changes that some applications and drivers that run on Windows require to support this expanded number of...
[September 16, 2009, 1:22]
Apple to ditch PowerPC for Intel processors
News Apple has used IBM's PowerPC processors since 1994, but will begin a phased transition to Intel's chips, sources familiar with the situation said. Apple successfully navigated a switch in the 1990s from Motorola's 680x0 line of processors to the...
[June 6, 2005, 9:10]
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]
Selecting Server Processors to Reduce Total Cost
White Papers The newest high-end Intel® Xeon® processors based on Next-Generation Intel® Microarchitecture (Nehalem) can significantly enhance server performance, reducing TCO by 42 percent. This paper examines how Intel IT is standardizing on Intel® XeonÂ...
[June 23, 2009, 1:19]
Intel readies Penryn processors
News Intel is readying 11 new 45-nanometre Penryn processors for launch in the first quarter, according to industry reports. Intel started talking in detail about Penryn in November last year, and it demonstrated the processors in January.
[August 23, 2007, 14:22]
General purpose processors flash their assets
News The same microprocessor that lets you burn through a game of Gran Turismo may soon be running your PC's printer, as electronics manufacturers increasingly rely on general-purpose processors. Standard" processors and system-on-a-chip designs that...
[June 13, 2001, 9:26]
CommuniGate Pro Software and Intel Multi-Core Processors Provide a Cost-Effective, Scalable Platform That Helps You Quickly Bring on New Services, Reach New Customers
White Papers Service providers can address all of these challenges by upgrading their network with servers based on Intel multi-core processors and the converged Internet Communications application suite known as CommuniGate Pro.
[January 1, 2009, 0:00]
Single-Chip Control/Data-Plane Processors: Trends, Features, Deployment
White Papers Although most consumer networking equipment today uses simple system-on-a-chip processors, the shift to next-generation broadband technologies is driving a transition to true SCDP devices in the consumer and SOHO markets.
[March 24, 2009, 0:20]
Fast Classification of XML With Network Processors
White Papers An important technology for complex packet routing are so-called Network Processors, which have a set of small "Micro-engines" classifying incoming packets. As XML documents become steadily more prevalent for data storage and communication, there...
[January 3, 2009, 0:00]
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]
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]
