Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, IBM's Blue Gene.
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.
An industry group has formally christened a faster second-generation version of the PCI technology that's used to plug everything from video cards to InfiniBand adapters into computers.
Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux and the maintainer of its development kernel, appealed on Saturday for people to test the latest release candidate of the Linux kernel.
NASA has picked computer maker Silicon Graphics and chipmaker Intel to develop a major supercomputer based on Linux to simulate space exploration and conduct other research, SGI announced Tuesday.
Companies that offer virtualisation software are changing their business models and tweaking their software.
Current tests haven't kept pace with server technology, but an industry consortium is coming to the rescue.
The world of massive computing power used to belong solely to the big players -- but thanks to Linux clustering, smaller firms are now getting in on the act.
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This is a good choice for compute-intensive applications, but the System x3455's restricted storage and availability options limit its use when it comes to general hosting duties.
A new technology for connecting PCs to peripherals and other computers will bear fruit in 2004, but it won't conquer the industry overnight.
IBM researchers are working on a new storage system prototype that packs hard-drive modules into a dense, Rubik's Cube-like structure.
Infiniband, the new storage/server interconnect, has been snubbed by Intel and Microsoft -- but that's no reason to count it out.
Intel plans to lower the cost and increase the performance of optical networking technology, the company said Wednesday, part of the chipmaker's effort to make money off communications as well as computing technology.
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