One of the most important components to be unveiled this week is the UltraSparc IIIi processor, the spearhead in Sun's defence against low-priced machines sporting Intel Xeon processors. This should give them a much-needed boost in performance and...
In addition, by the end of April, HP will ship an upgraded dual-processor blade, the BL20p, that includes 3.06GHz Xeon processors instead of the 2.8GHz currently used, Stevens said. Adjusting to curtailed corporate computing spending for such...
With the density levels you're starting to get today with blades and servers like the 575, fairly specialised power and cooling is once again coming to the forefront" of data centre operations, Haff said.
Right now, Pixar is planning to purchase systems based on Woodcrest and Cloverton, a quad-core processor scheduled to emerge next year, he said. Intel formally unveiled its Xeon 5100 series processors on Monday, releasing to customers one of its...
AMD this week announced its new "Rev F" line of dual-core Opteron processors, which in 2007 will be supplanted by quad-core models that plug into the same "Socket F". Tulsa chips fit into servers using Intel's "Truland" platform, a server design...
Given the increasing use of high density hardware such as multi-core processors and blade servers, excessive power and cooling demands could lead to a rise in server failures, according to Aperture Research Institute (ARI), a division of software...