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SGI skips future Xeon E7s, lobs E5-4600s into UV2 supers
Adds Xeon E5s, Tesla K10 GPU coprocessors to rackable boxes
Supercomputer and cluster maker Silicon Graphics has fallen hard for Intel’s new “Sandy Bridge-EP” Xeon E5-4600 processors for four-socket servers.…
Mutant number-crunchers win cluster popularity contest
CUDA you dig it? Yes, you can
HPC blog Hybrid computing has come a very long way in a relatively short period of time. My first exposure to hybrids came at SC08 in the lovely city of Austin, Texas. Earlier that year, the Roadrunner system at Los Alamos National Lab had achieved two milestones: 1) It [...]
Nvidia drops veil on game-changing might of VGX
VDI’ing Your BYODs
HPC blog What’s a “holy crap” moment? For me, it’s when I see or hear (or do) something that has far-reaching and previously unforeseen consequences. I’ve had at least two of these moments (so far) at the GTC 2012 conference. The first was when Jen-Hsun Huang, in his keynote presentation, tossed up a [...]
Steve Jobs’ death clears way for rumoured 4in ‘iPhone 5′ screen
Apple places order for large display, claim sources
The next Apple iPhone will have an enlarged 4-inch screen, according to well-placed anonymous sources.…
Crooks sell skint fanbois potatoes instead of iPhones
‘I wanted an Apple, not a vegetable’
Greater Manchester police are appealing for help after a number of people who thought they were laying hands on a shiny new iPhone ended up with a sack of spuds instead.…
HP frogmarches new Xeon, Opteron chips into ProLiants
Wants world+dog to know that it’s also using E5-2400 two-socketeers
In the wake of Intel’s launch of the entry Xeon E5-2400 processors for two-socket servers earlier this week, X86 server juggernaut Hewlett-Packard wants to keep its name in the mind of customers who might be shopping for systems from rivals Dell, IBM or Fujitsu.…
Boffins smash 3Gbps speed barrier with 542GHz T-Rays
Sky’s the limit in terahertz territory
Japanese geniuses have maintained a 3Gbit/s radio link at 542GHz, opening up more of the electromagnetic spectrum to the voracious appetite of wireless data.…
Asia leads global BYOD race
IT managers jump on the bandwagon
Asian IT professionals are racing ahead of their global rivals when it comes to implementing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies in their organisations, according to new research from BT.…
Nvidia shows off superjuiced Kepler GPU
From workhouse to racehorse
HPC blog There were quite a few surprises in today’s GTC12 keynote by NVIDIA CEO and co-founder Jen-Hsun Huang.…
Speaking in Tech: The worst government IT deal of ALL TIME
The one about the oversized Cisco routers
Podcast It’s the eighth episode of our enterprise tech podcast – and it’s a special one. The podcast is split up into two parts: in the first part, your hosts interview a journalist investigating the State of West Virginia’s absurd purchase of drastically oversized Cisco routers – it’s an [...]
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