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  • Football U goes to 3Leaf for HPC

    Hut one, hut two, MPI

    Florida State University, like most state schools in the US with a storied (American) football program, also has a respectable comp sci department that is not afraid to spend a little cash on a new technology when it comes along. And that's how the Seminoles have ended up being one of the first customers of upstart server maker 3Leaf Systems.?

  • OCZ's low price Onyx SSD

    Slips under $100 price point

    OCZ has a sub-$100 SSD offered as a netbook, laptop and desktop hard drive replacement.?

  • AMD to pitch Fusion chip at netbooks, ultrathins

    'Bobcat'-based CPUs out in 2011

    Claims that AMD has a some kind of Damascene conversion and is to finally target the netbook sector directly are, frankly, nonsense.?

  • Super Micro to launch AMD render cloud

    A great game console in the sky

    The conceptual render cloud that Advanced Micro Devices was showing off a little more than a year ago at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show is going commercial this year.?

  • US comp-boffins claim fix for multicore 'concurrency bugs'

    Pleasurable programming for plentiful processors

    American computer boffins say they have developed new software which makes programming of multi-processor machines much easier.?

  • Swedes serve up flicks with KVM

    Cisco blades, minus VMware and EMC

    Everybody is talking up the idea of integrated stacks these days, but some customers just won't listen. They think they can just pick and choose any technology they want, like in the old days.?

  • Intel's redemos six-core Gulftown

    Gamers watch and wait

    Intel has given developers another peek at its upcoming Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor.?

  • Citrix tunes XenApp for Windows Server R2

    App-V virtual embrace

    Citrix has unveiled XenApp 6 after re-architecting the product from the ground up to take full advantage of Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 R2.?

  • Voltaire brings InfiniBand switch to the masses

    Accelerators speed up cluster work

    InfiniBand and Ethernet switch maker Voltaire this morning rolled out its Grid Director 4200, a midrange 40 Gb/sec InfiniBand switch that shoots the gap between its entry and high-end switches, and that is the product that Voltaire expects companies to buy as they adopt InfiniBand for database clustering and other HPC jobs.?

  • Microsoft boffin scoops Turing Award

    Hardware guru wins computing's 'Nobel prize'

    A Microsoft researcher has received the Turing Award in recognition for his pioneering work in personal computing hardware and networking technology development.?

  • WD targets Win XP users to ease 4KB drive upgrades

    Sector inspector

    Western Digital is to help Windows XP users more easily make the transition to so-called '4K' hard drive technology, the new standard for basic drive formatting.?

  • Sepaton in anti-Data Domain pitch

    Dual-node MS2 cluster

    Criticising the pain of single-silo deduplication products, Sepaton has introduced a dual-node clustered product that can be upgraded to its larger ES2 system.?

  • Floating IT lab mimics multi-tiered networks

    Is it real? Or is it Skytap?

    Skytap - the Jeff Bezos-backed startup that lets you mimic internal IT infrastructure in the so-called cloud - has introduced a new set of automation tools designed to facilitate the creation of complex network topologies on its floating interwebs service.?

  • Pillar juices flash drive box

    Reliability boost roadmap

    Pillar Data Axiom storage arrays can go a whole lot faster, use less energy and be more reliable, thanks to a range of new features from flash drive enclosures to pre-emptive copies.?

  • Cisco 'forever changes internet' with... a router

    322 Tbps of bandwidth (not quite) here

    How will Cisco "forever change the internet"? With a new router.?

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