Australia's Bureau of Meteorology and the Australian National University this morning revealed they had inked a four-year, $30 million deal with Sun Microsystems to build a new high-performance computing (HPC) system to support weather forecasting.
Cisco has launched 'Unified Computing', a next-generation datacentre effort that encompasses virtualisation, a group of major technology partners and the networking company's first foray into making server hardware.
The Samba project on Tuesday released a major update to the file and print components of the server software, adding clustered file system support, compatibility improvements and other changes.
Open-source specialist Red Hat has launched a "real-time" addition to its Linux operating system, which it claims will make some features run 100 times faster than rival technologies.
Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard will work together to give "mass market" appeal to high-peformance pcs and grab a bigger share of the burgeoning supercomputer market.
While Windows is ubiquitous on the desktop and well represented in the server racks, until recently it has been nearly absent from the world's largest supercomputers.
In the world of processors, attention seems firmly focused on the fast-paced desktop and mobile markets. But that doesn't mean that there's nothing going on in server-land.
The average datacentre lasts between 15 and 20 years, so when the current generation of datacentres near the end of their working life, will their replacements be at all familiar?
Abhi Talwalkar, general manager of Intel's Enterprise Platform Group, provides an insight into the dual-core Montecito, the company's latest Itanium chip.
PDAs can be expensive, but because they're so flexible, you can recoup your investment by using them for network administration tasks. See how you can use a PDA such as the Compaq iPAQ as a portable network analysis tool.
The HP Jornada 545 is a slimmer, better-looking Palm-size PC, which matches the added capabilities of other Pocket PC-based devices.
Did you ever want to beam a business card or note from your PDA to an associate's PDA,"merely to discover that infrared wireless data exchange between PDAs works only between devices running the same OS?
PDF files are often huge files that include colour, graphics, links, and navigation features; their size made them impractical for use with early PDAs. PC Magazine takes a look at two new PDF viewer software products for the Palm OS and Windows CE platforms that are easy to use and deliver surprisingly good performance.
With the HP Jornada 720 Handheld PC, you get notebook functionality plus improved portability.
The NEC MobilePro 780 (US$800 street) Windows CE Professional half-VGA screen model is a great compromise between smaller palm-size PCs and the MobilePro 800 H/PC.
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