In a white paper issued on Wednesday, the UK Trade secretary will launch a six-month review period of how to promote IT "clusters" in areas like Cambridgeshire's Silicon Fen. A Department of Trade and Industry spokesman said the report will...
Automatic or manual failover is supported to cater for unplanned or planned downtime for any particular server. Simple clustering provides a partial solution, offering continued service through failover if the primary server node fails.
Typically, high-performance computing clusters want chips with high clock speeds, measured by gigahertz, but don't necessarily need massive caches, Waxman said. Intel will today release a pair of cheaper Itanium 2 processors optimised for rack...
There will be room for Microsoft in the high-performance computing market, even with a product scheduled to arrive more than a year from now, but the clock is ticking, Summit Strategies analyst Dwight Davis said.
The first version will reproduce many basic features of Linux clusters, Theimer said. And it will include programming tools for writing software that runs on clusters. A third version will include developer improvements to ease programming on...
During a speech on Tuesday, Benioff said the company will complete its conversion to its new systems, which include "immediate failover" capability, next month. In addition to replacing nearly all its hardware and software and building two new data...
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