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 Biting the hand that feeds IT Copyright: Copyright 2008, Situation Publishing Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:49:13 +0200 Studio to AMD: Drop deadFor computer animation studios, upgrading long-in-the-tooth server farms is a part of a natural cycle to keep things looking sharp. But they're a bit like butterflies flitting amongst hardware specs when it comes down to finding what they want to power "the next big thing."… Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:39:03 +0200 Whacks Greene when VMware needed her mostComment By firing VMware chief Diane Greene, EMC's top dog Joe Tucci has sent a message to investors that his personal likes and dislikes come before their broader interests. That's not exactly what you want to see from an executive who has already done so very little for investors over the past five years.… Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:36:53 +0200 MS veteran replaces co-founderVMWare co-founder Diane Greene left the company today as it announced it would undershoot its full year revenue targets.… Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:43:00 +0200 Mad ScyldzClustered storage system vendor, Panasas, is teaming up the Linux cluster house, Penguin Computing, to — well, obviously combine some of the former's goodies with the latter's.… Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:44:30 +0200 'Your complaint stands'IBM may have corked the wails of antitrust outrage coming from the diminutive mainframe vendor Platform Solutions (PSI) by purchasing the upstart, but the European regulator genie has already slipped out the bottle.… Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:25:02 +0200 The ninth mode of art runs on HP clustersExclusive For more than six months, a list ranking the top supercomputers in China has been floating around, but no one has managed to solve its riddle.… Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:13:22 +0200 Renewed vowsParallels is giving some delayed attention to Hewlett-Packard's Integrity servers today.… Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:46:06 +0200 If you can't beat them, buy themPlatform Solutions Inc. (PSI), the upstart mainframe house that's been leading international anti-trust charges against IBM, has today been bought by, er, IBM.… Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:33:25 +0200 Full height boxes ready tooHP and IBM have some super fancy technology for virtualizing the I/O of their blade systems, and they sell it for thousands of dollars. Dell now has something similar - an SD card that it sells for $499 a pop.… Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:47:40 +0200 When will you get a turn?Never one to miss out on a marketing opportunity, IBM has already started tweaking the new iDataPlex system to reach more customers before the box has even started shipping.… Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:51:53 +0200 Like a mainframe but closer to angelsStructure 08 Amazon CTO Werner Vogels believes that cloud computing will be commonplace within two years.… Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:47:18 +0200 Flattering releaseLove Red Hat Enterprise Linux and want the latest edition, but can't stand the company and refuse to give it a single red cent? You're in luck.… Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:31:45 +0200 Open source BigTable and improve fluffiness, pleaseStructure 08 Yes, Google has opened its cloud to every developer down on earth. But for some, it's not quite as open as it should be.… Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:33:52 +0200 Great BBQ and strip clubs for execs tooNorth Carolina will do just about anything to keep technology companies happy, including offering IBM up to $750,000 to bring just 10 jobs to the state.… Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:49:03 +0200 80 Plus gives them a gold stickerDell is fussing over itself again for being such a brilliant shade of eco-friendly green. No surprise. We dare say Michael Dell himself weeps a single tear of amber when you drop a paper coffee cup into the trash.… Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:42:36 +0200 No license to print moneyStructure 08 Cloud computing has its very own catch-22. If we can tap into the cloud, grabbing our compute resources on the fly, we can free ourselves from the old school software licensing models. But old school software licensing models may prevent us from tapping into the cloud.… Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:38:18 +0200 New CloudStatus site monitors the ...cloud ...status...Open source systems management specialist Hyperic is sticking its inquisitive probe into Amazon.com's cloud.… Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:06:15 +0200 Proud to be denseIn a weird sort of way, you can think of this as Rackable Systems 2.0.… Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:10:13 +0200 256 thread per socket rocketExclusive Sun Microsystems looks poised to lead the "mainstream" multi-core race for at least a couple more years. By late 2009, the server maker should deliver a third major revision of its Niagara processor which will have 16 cores and an astonishing 16 threads per core, The Register has learned.… Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:56:48 +0200 GPL love-inHewlett-Packard plans to make its Tru64 Unix Advanced File System available to the open source community.… Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:07:32 +0200 Out-acquiring GoogleComment We're in the midst of some very strange times. An online book seller owns the leading utility computing service. An advertising company manufactures its own servers and switches. And spots in rural America best known for being, well, rural are turning into technology heavyweights because they have access to cheap power and generous taxpayers.… Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:22:42 +0200 Netizens scramble to replenish frozen pizza stockpilesThe UK’s net population narrowly escaped starvation today as Sainsbury’s finally got its e-commerce site up and running again.… Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:18:50 +0200 Deploy Windows and then obliterate itSummit One of the main community-driven projects that prompted Red Hat to open source its Satellite code today was the Linux boot server, Cobbler.… Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:09:07 +0200 $270 extra buys X amounts of brainA couple of years ago, Dell launched a new line of so-called Energy Smart servers. They were billed as modified versions of the company's standard PowerEdge systems, which cost a bit more up front but helped customers save more money over the long haul by reducing power consumption. But, we wondered, how smart were the Energy Smart systems here in 2008. Or more precisely, is Dell living up to its green computing claims?… Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:40:41 +0200 Take your protein pills and put your helmet onSummit Red Hat is opening the code of its Network Satellite Server, the locally hosted service behind the Red Hat Network (RHN) management platform.… Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:56:09 +0200 Hopes to outdo BullSun Microsystems has suffered from a hate-hate relationship with the supercomputing world over the past few years. The shift to Linux clusters caught the company totally off guard, and resulted in Sun vanishing from the Top500 supercomputers list. That's hardly the "right" position for a company that prides itself on selling servers and building big systems to occupy.… Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:43:49 +0200 Lifecycles updated, possibly more complicated than fluid dynamicsSummit Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) versions 4 and 5 are going to stick around in full support mode a full year longer.… Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:25:09 +0200 VMware in the rearParallels has stolen a march on VMware with the release of virtualization software for Intel-based servers running Apple's OS X Leopard operating system.… Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:04:19 +0200 Don't be so aggressive, guysSummit Red Hat is extremely late to the virtualization hypervisor party, but the company is confident that its reputation as a prominent Linux licenser will push the technology to even greater heights. Open source style.… Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:55:37 +0200 Going faster miles an hourSo IBM beat IBM in the new supercomputer TOP500 hit parade published today. No surprise there, with Roadrunner, the new no.1, built by IBM for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, earning plenty of airtime last week for being the first petaflop computer.… Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:22:33 +0200 Cited for floating point abuseCheaper and faster - check. ClearSpeed has hit the two major keys to winning in the silicon game with the release of its latest floating point accelerators.… Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:42:30 +0200 Front-side bus snuggling includedXtremeData is shipping its newest set of FPGAs made for giving Intel's Xeon chips a helping hand with math work.… Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:53:44 +0200 Try something unstable todaySainsbury's on-line ordering system thought it would try something new today, and opted for disappearing completely and taking the day's orders with it.… Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:00:56 +0200 Give me DNSSec but not just yetVeriSign is pushing ahead with plans to make the internet's Domain Name System (DNS) more resilient to internet attacks. But although it will make its upgraded server infrastructure IPv6 and DNSSec ready, the net infrastructure giant reckons the touted performance improvements promised by the protocols have been delivered by other means.… Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:23:36 +0200 Crushing Gigacells 64 Tesla cards at a timeHot on the heels of Nvidia's latest Tesla hardware unveiling, high performance computing partner Acceleware is cramming stacks of the graphics cards into new kit.… Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:04:06 +0200 Can the Earth survive its secrecy?Comment On the grand list of things that Google cares about killing penguins to save a few bucks ranks higher than making the world a greener place.… Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:56 +0200 EC2 adopts another appRed Hat is now brewing its JBoss Java application server on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), marking the company's second round of making code available as an online pay-as-you-go service.… Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:42:06 +0200 GPGPU smackdown weekThe latest round of graphics card dueling between AMD and Nvidia isn't just over high-end gamers. The vendors will also exchange blows for the hearts and wallets of your friendly neighborhood medical imagers, seismic modelers, and computational fluid dynamicists.… Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:11:17 +0200 Insane horsepower for the HPC geek on the goNvidia pitches its Tesla hardware as a magical solution for the world’s toughest computing problems. Just move your code that runs well across many processors over to the Tesla boards, and Shazam!. You enjoy sometimes 400 per cent improvements in overall performance.… Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:36:17 +0200 NonStop takes on modern touchWhen HP talks about "blade everything", it means freaking everything. The hardware maker has pumped out a blade server running its NonStop operating system and software of all things.… Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:03:30 +0200 Packages, packages, packagesThe next year will be a critical time for OpenSolaris, according to Ian Murdock, the founder of Debian brought in by Sun Microsystems last year to lead its OS operation.… Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:01:53 +0200 England can't even win in virtual realityUK freesheet newspaper Metro has temporarily suspended its Euro 2008 fantasy football competition.… Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:43:49 +0200 A bloody big car. Also, human obsolescence imminentAmerican nuke boffins who have just fired up the world's first petaflop hypercomputer* are extremely excited, and contend that the machine may enable them to accurately simulate important segments of the human brain. Conceivably, the mighty "Roadrunner" - as the computer is known - may exhibit capabilities verging on human cognition.… Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:02:03 +0200 Shrink wrapped data centers all the rageIBM wants to save the world one modularized data center at a time.… Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:46:43 +0200 Now banking on enthusiasmWe called Red Hat on Monday to address speculation that its RHX (Red Hat Exchange) program was about to go tits-up. Red Hat responded to the concerns today with a blog post.… Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:15:51 +0200 5.0GHz and $17m run to gloryWhen IBM started rolling out 5.0GHz versions of Power6, you knew it was only a matter of time before the vendor tried to usurp HP as the transaction performance king. And now it has done it.… Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:17:07 +0200 HP now the lone OS holdoutSun Microsystems has firmed up Fujitsu as a Solaris reseller on x86 boxes, which leaves us wondering when HP will break and join the rest of the crowd.… Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:58:14 +0200 Compared to Windows Server 2003 that isMicrosoft spat out a white paper earlier this week in which it claimed that its Windows Server 2008 product cuts power consumption by about 10 per cent.… Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:36:45 +0200 Customer expectations high, Intel toldIntel's next-gen processor architecture, 'Nehalem', is running behind schedule - or will be seen as such when the first of the chips ship - a US market analyst has claimed.… Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:02:02 +0200 Probably didn't get the name from ThinairVMware is done digesting the application virtualization startup, Thinstall, and will be rebranding the product under a suspiciously analogous name: ThinApp.… |
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