Unisys was the primary 32-way platform, but we sold eight-way (configurations) on Compaq and HP. For example, when Windows Server 2003 is installed, non-essential services will be switched off by default, unlike Windows 2000 which switches on the...
Advances in hardware will make the features of Longhorn both possible and necessary, Gates said, predicting that PCs by 2006 will have a processor of between 4GHz and 6GHz, more than 2GB of memory, a terabyte or more of storage, and graphics chips...
The majority of Solaris applications run on servers built on Sun's own Sparc processor but the company is aggressively promoting Solaris on x86 servers based on chips from Intel or AMD. That upgrade will let the automatic diagnostic tools spot...
IBM is selling the machine in configurations ranging from one to 64 racks; each rack has 1,024 processors. The processor it relies on is a member of IBM's Power family, but an unusual new member. IBM's Blue Gene/L just got a step more mundane.
In the Windows world, such flaws are often exploited to install spyware or ad-serving software on vulnerable PCs. An attacker could embed malicious code in a ZIP file and host that on a website. The file and the embedded code would run when a Mac...
The new kernel includes the SPU (synergistic programming unit) file system, which lets software control and communicate with the different processor cores. Linus Torvalds released a new Linux kernel on Monday that supports features in IBM's Cell...
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