The IBM Netfinity and the Compaq Proliant 5500 will both be able to accommodate up to four Xeon chips. Intel's Xeon processors will underpin server launches from Compaq, Gateway and IBM. IBM's server, with two processors and 384MB of memory will...
Compaq has linked up 72 dual-processor Proliant servers into what it calls the "Kudzu cluster". Both contain around 6,000 processors and reach top speeds approaching 4 teraflops (trillion calculations per second).
The allegation comes from an IT director at a leading London-based financial institution following problems with Compaq ProLiant 5500 servers. After contacting Compaq and finding out the problem was with Intel Xeon processors, he was sent a...
Meanwhile Compaq will be pre-loading the OS on its best-selling ProLiant range of servers. Compaq, Dell, HP and IBM all confirmed they will be supporting Linux on a bigger scale. As part of its commitment to the OS, Dell is already offering pre...
Earlier this month, Nokia also announced an agreement with Compaq to co-sell products, such as the Compaq ProLiant servers installed with Nokia's WAP server software, to enterprise customers. As part of the agreement Siebel ebusiness applications...
Keeping momentum in the Intel server market is crucial for HP, which acquired Compaq Computer in 2002, in part for the ProLiant line. HP is to upgrade its ProLiant BL10e blade server with a 1GHz Pentium M - a processor code-named Banias that should...