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Apple (2) - Uniprocessor Systems Up To 200MHz
News Apple's latest Power Macintosh line taps the latest PowerPC 604e to match Intel's fastest 200MHz clock speed. Shipping in September, Apple says MacBench scores rate the new line as 50 per cent faster than last year's class.
[August 6, 1996, 14:58]
One Year Ago: Intel Plans 4-CPU Support For Pentium II
News Currently, the new PII devices only support uniprocessor and two-way CPU configurations but the addition of four-way capabilities next year will mean the end in sight for the venerable Pro. This is just the start of the PII ECC family so we only...
[July 15, 1998, 6:30]
Intel Plans 4-CPU Support For Pentium II
News Currently, the new PII devices only support uniprocessor and two-way CPU configurations but the addition of four-way capabilities next year will mean the end in sight for the venerable Pro. This is just the start of the PII ECC family so we only...
[July 15, 1997, 15:45]
Sun Doubles Thread Performance With Niagara 2
News That would be a significant change from the first Niagara, which only works in uniprocessor machines. It appears that uniprocessor servers hold Sun's initial Niagara 2 focus. The current UltraSparc T1 "Niagara"-based servers can run 32 threads...
[August 24, 2006, 8:40]
A Comparative Evaluation Of Parallel Garbage Collector Implementations
White Papers While uniprocessor garbage collection is relatively well understood, experience with collectors for large multiprocessor servers is limited and it is unknown which techniques best scale with large memories and large numbers of processors.
[August 31, 2007, 1:00]
Workload Modeling For Parallel Processing Systems
White Papers There are already quite established methodologies and techniques for workload modeling of uniprocessor systems, but these techniques cannot be applied directly to Parallel Processing Systems (PPS) because of the different nature of the workload of...
[March 20, 2008, 0:02]
IBM Claims Fastest Unix Workstation
News IBM on Thursday proclaimed itself fastest of the fast in low-end Unix uniprocessor workstations. The company announced a pair of additions to its entry-level RS/6000 44 P Model 170 Unix workstation, which the company claims will make the machine...
[December 29, 2000, 9:10]
Dell Joins Workstation Race
News Available right now, Dell's WorkStation 400 matches uniprocessor and dual-CPU 266MHz and 300MHz Pentium II chips with Windows NT 4.0. The systems support up to 512Mb of ECC RAM and 13Gb of hard disk storage.
[July 28, 1997, 12:08]
Evesham Ships PII Workstations, Servers
News Aimed at graphics markets, the Vale DesignStation starts at £2499 + VAT for a uniprocessor 233MHz configuration with 64Mb RAM and 17-inch monitor. Prices for Vale Sabre and Samurai Servers feature start at £2,399 + VAT.
[June 10, 1997, 13:48]
Evesham Makes Workstation Move
News A uniprocessor 200MHz-based system with 128Mb EDO RAM, 8Mb VRAM Diamond Fire GL 3000 graphics, 4Gb ultra-wide SCSI hard drive, 21-inch monitor, eight-speed CD-ROM drive and on-board Ethernet costs £6,499 + VAT.
[December 11, 1996, 10:32]
HP Rolls Out New Pro-based PCs
News Estimated street prices start at £2,828 + VAT for a uniprocessor system with 32Mb RAM and 2.1Gb hard drive. HP, a leader in Pro-based systems from the moment it launched its faster-than-Intel motherboard to coincide with the chip's release, is...
[March 26, 1997, 10:08]
IBM Unveils Netfinity Servers
News The uniprocessor server has an entry price point of $1,344 (£833), Yost said. On Tuesday, IBM unveiled two new Netfinity four-way machines that the company says are designed as Windows 2000 servers. IBM is targeting the Netfinity 7100 toward...
[March 14, 2000, 15:17]
Intel Ends 333MHz PII 'Deschutes' Wait
News Systems will be available in uniprocessor and dual-CPU configurations, and Intel said a version of the 333MHz PII that supports very large RAM configurations will be available in the next two months. Intel today ended the waiting by introducing the...
[January 26, 1998, 10:24]
AMD To Unveil 'Rev F' Opteron Chips
News As reported, the model numbers are increased by an order of magnitude compared with current Opterons, with the 1000 series for uniprocessor computers, the 2000 series for dual-processor computers, and the 8000 series for those with as many as eight.
[August 15, 2006, 9:05]
Mitsubishi Slams Compaq Sub-£1K Server
News According to IDC market research, sales of uniprocessor dedicated servers in Western Europe will almost double between 1996 and the end of the century. Billing its new Apricot FT1200 as a "killer server", Mitsubishi product marketing manager Hans...
[January 14, 1997, 11:09]
IBM To Fill Out Copper Server Line
News The 170 workstation is a uniprocessor; the 270 workstation scales up to four processors; and the SP Node scales up to 512 nodes, with each one scaling up to four processors. IBM is expected to introduce three new mid-range RS/6000 servers...
[March 21, 2000, 7:47]
Intel Shows Half-size Server Motherboard
News And there are cases where two uniprocessor servers in a rack-mount server is a better choice than one dual-processor machine, he added. For example, in sending out video streams, two uniprocessor servers can pump data at 6.5 gigabytes per second...
[September 28, 2006, 10:10]
US Report: Analysts Sceptical Of Sun's Claims For Future Chip
News A Silicon Graphics spokeswoman, meanwhile, says Sun is making "an apples-to-oranges comparison" of uniprocessor to multiprocessor performance. With no new chips or technologies on tap in the immediate future, vendors are starting to bang the drum...
[August 5, 1998, 7:24]
Dell Hones Blade-server Push
News Both companies have launched single processor server blades based on Intel's 700MHz Pentium III uniprocessor chip for blade servers in the past few months. Dell Computer wants a cut of the blade-server market.
[April 3, 2002, 10:07]
HP Server Slims Down With Pentium M
News Low-end uniprocessor blades are still good for many network tasks, such as handing out Internet addresses to PCs as they log onto a network, serving up Web pages or directing Web surfers' computers to the proper addresses as they browse the...
[April 22, 2003, 11:16]
