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Data center planning needs new paradigm
News Businesses need to factor in scalability, flexibility and focus more on keeping operational costs low to equip themselves for cloud environments, says IBM exec.
Tags: Data centers, Cloud computing, Cost control, IBM Corp., High-performance Computing Setup, software, Information Technology, Nanyang Technological University, Larry Ellison, Cloud computing
Personal supercomputing, anyone?
Insight perspective Personal supercomputing may sound like a contradiction in terms, but it definitely exists, says Andrew Jones.
Tags: Supercomputing, Business applications, GPU, Consulting, Jones, Hardware, supercomputer, modeling, high-performance, desktop
ARM targets Intel with 2GHz multicore chips
News ARM is preparing new enterprise partnerships as its Cortex-A9 processor goes fast and multicore, pitting it against Intel's x86 and IBM's PowerPC chips.
Tags: Processors, ARM, Intel Corp., Chip, Dual-core, JIT, performance, processor, high-performance, Processors
Penguin unveils Linux-based HPC in the cloud
News Penguin Computing has begun allowing researchers, scientists and engineers to lease its high-performance computing capabilities through the cloud.
Tags: Cloud computing, Computing, Intel Xeon, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., high-performance computing, University of Cambridge, high-performance, financial, Linux
US labs virtualize 1 million Linux kernels
News Sandia National Labs have simultaneously run more than a million Linux kernels on a single cluster, an accomplishment that could prove useful for antibotnet research.
Tags: Linux, Virtualization, Virtual Machine, Kernel, computer, Linux Kernel, high-performance, network, researcher, Internet
Microsoft: Windows 7 can offer better battery life
News At a joint event with Intel, Microsoft says newer systems can expect 10 percent to 20 percent battery improvement over Vista when playing DVDs.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Battery, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, DVD, performance, Microsoft Windows XP, high-performance, Microsoft Windows
NetApp refreshes data center OS for the cloud
News Storage firm combines its Data Ontap 7 enterprise platform and Data Ontap GX clustered computing platform into single codebase tailored to cloud deployments.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Supercomputing, Cloud computing, Storage, Cloud computing, high-performance computing, 64-bit, high-performance, data management, disk
Researchers prove kernel is secure
News Australian research organization says it has absolute mathematical proof of the security of an operating system core.
Tags: Components, Kernel, computer, aircraft, University of Cambridge, high-performance, researcher, buffer-overflow vulnerability, team, Components
Right product name means a lot, say vendors
News Vendors find names that effectively portray product features are key marketing tool and help consumers to better recall their products.
Tags: Product marketing, Cell Phone, Singapore, phone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., high-performance, marketing, brand, LG Electronics Inc., Product marketing
APAC HPC users eye solid-state drives
News update Some supercomputing users in the region are trialing flash memory for added boost, says a vendor, but an analyst notes SSDs won't be common "anytime soon".
Tags: Supercomputing, Memory, NEC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Computing, e-mail, I/O, hard drive, high-performance, flash memory
Fujitsu's IaaS keeps data in the UK
News A new U.K.-based infrastructure-as-a-service platform promises to alleviate worries about online services sending data overseas.
Tags: Cloud computing, Security, Storage, On-demand, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., Fujitsu Ltd., high-performance, data protection, data center
New Linux kernel adds filesystem support
News Linux 2.6.30 has been released with support for new file systems, alongside performance improvements and new hardware drivers.
Tags: Operating systems, Linus Torvalds, File System, Storage, Kernel, operating system, Linux Kernel, performance, Hardware, high-performance
Sun deal puts OpenSolaris on Toshiba laptops
News Toshiba laptops with OpenSolaris 2008.11 will be available in the United States from 2009, but availability elsewhere has not yet been announced.
Tags: Open source, Web browsers, Notebooks and tablets, Web Browser, File System, operating system, Sun Microsystems Inc., Environment, Laptop Computer, high-performance
Are supercomputers just better liars?
Insight Supercomputers may be far more powerful than ordinary machines, but that does not make their predictions infallible, says expert.
Tags: Supercomputing, R&D, Models, computer, Consulting, Jones, supercomputer, high-performance computing, modeling, food
M'sian funds operator upgrades mainframe
News Malaysian Electronic Payment System says it stuck with IBM mainframes for performance, and to minimize additional investment required from banks.
Tags: Mainframes, Network security, Mainframe, Disaster Recovery, IBM Corp., Security, Malaysia, Malaysian Electronic Payment System IBG, Hardware, payment
