The agreement involves Fujitsu servers built on Intel Xeon or Itanium processors. Fujitsu on Thursday said it has signed an agreement with Red Hat under which the companies plan to jointly develop and market Red Hat's Linux for Fujitsu's Intel...
In addition, it expects to release systems with 128 HP PA-RISC 8800 processors or 128 Intel Itanium processors in coming months. In the TPC-C tests, IBM has been working furiously to regain the top spot since a 128-processor Fujitsu system took...
Representatives for Lenovo, Intel and Fujitsu declined to comment. Silicon.com sister site CNET News.com has learnt that Lenovo and Fujitsu are in the process of putting together systems based on the Core 2 Duo chip that Apple is using in the...
The systems come with more than a lot of chips and memory, though; they can be sliced into independent pieces through technology generally called partitioning. Sun and HP beat IBM to the market with partitioning in Unix servers, but IBM's mainframe...
One of the major new features of the Power5 servers is 'micro-partitioning', the ability to run as many as 10 operating systems on each processor. The new partitioning addresses a major weakness of the Power4 generation: the requirement that each...
The EV7 and a faster derivative called EV79 coming in 2004 will be the last in the Alpha line as HP tries to switch customers over to Intel's Itanium processor. The new four-processor systems use Intel's new Xeon MP processors, code-named Gallatin...