Perth-based electricity utility Western Power has handed another parcel of IT services work to US outsourcing giant CSC, this time relating to desktop services.
IBM's new dual-core PowerPC 970MP processor employs several features to let the chip consume less power when possible.
A new high-performance computing centre in Perth, Western Australia, has attracted large projects from two Australian universities seeking improved data modelling and rendering capabilities.
Woodcrest, Conroe and Merom point towards Intel's target of a ten-fold reduction in power consumption by the end of the decade.
Red Hat has released Fedora Core 4, a free version of Linux the company is using to advance virtualisation, programming tools and other software at the frontier of open-source development.
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IBM plans to release a new top-end Unix server in 2004, a 64-processor machine code-named Armada that will feature the company's coming Power5 processor, a senior Big Blue executive has confirmed.
IBM has announced a new low-end server, its first Power processor-based system that can run the Linux operating system without needing IBM's AIX as well.
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Intel plans to describe a new high-end Itanium chip code-named Tanglewood at its Developer Forum conference this month, sources close to the company said. The chip will include as many as 16 processors on a single slice of silicon.
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