Hewlett Packard has begun selling new workstations using Intel's Itanium 2 processor and a new higher-end version of Red Hat Linux, company executives said yesterday. HP also sells a version of the workstation with HP-UX, its version of Unix, but a...
IDC analyst Roger Kay said the performance gains on the new systems and related price cuts are important moves for Apple, particularly as IT spending continues at lower-than-expected levels. The new low-end Power Mac starts at $1,499, a $200...
Mulchand also believes that HP will have some breathing room, because the full performance gains promised by Power5 require an updated version of the AIX operating system, version 5.3, while most software today works with version 5.2.
Processor performance gains have been outpaced by increasing power demands and corresponding amounts of waste heat, a problem for those wishing to pack servers more densely in data centres without risking overheating problems such as data loss or...
Orders for the Dell Precision 470 and 670 workstations can be placed starting Monday, while the server OS will be available on Dell systems starting in June, the computer manufacturer said. But Allchin said there are performance gains that many...
HyperTransport accounted for a substantial percentage of the performance gains AMD achieved with the Athlon chip. Performance gains over conventional chips arise directly out of Tile64's design. While a professor at Stanford in the early 1980s, he...