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IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News Roadrunner runs on 6,948 dual-core AMD Opteron chips on IBM Model LS21 blade servers, and 12,960 Cell engines on IBM Model QS22 blade servers. Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop - 1,000 trillion floating... [11 Jun 2008]
AMD chips into business market
News The Business Class desktop CPUs unveiled include the quad-core Phenom X4 9600B, the triple-core Phenom X3 9600B, the dual-core Athlon X2 4450B and the single-core Athlon 1640B. AMD has released a series of chips which it claims has the stability... [29 Apr 2008]
Intel launches modular-server building tools…
News Server systems provide a unique opportunity for the channel to get closer to the core IT infrastructure of their customers, making them a more trusted partner. He added: "Typically we expect [such] products to be priced at a comparable rate to the... [15 Jan 2008]
Hedge fund manager in £3.5m IT deal with Savvis
News Augustus Asset Managers is outsourcing its core infrastructure in a £3.5m four-year deal with Savvis. The Savvis offering includes mirrored dual data centres and an off-site business continuity site, which Augustus employees can work from or access... [06 Dec 2007]
Virtualisation 'could save companies millions'
News The report estimates a company currently operating 250 dual-core servers can save £2m over the next three years by adopting virtualisation technology. Virtualisation could save companies millions of pounds and be the dominant data centre technology... [25 Sep 2007]
AMD's quad-core chip to launch next month
News Intel simply put two dual-core chips together in a single package, and while that won't win any awards from chip design purists, it did allow Intel to ship quad-core chips in November of last year. The delay, along with Intel price cuts, forced AMD... [21 Aug 2007]
PC World escapes punishment over chip ads
News PC World has escaped punishment from the UK's advertising watchdog after one of its adverts appeared to suggest Intel's dual-core processors performed twice as quickly as single-core processors. A national press advert for the retailer featured... [06 Jul 2007]
Microsoft strips features from 'Viridian'
News And it will only support computers with a maximum of 16 processing cores-for example, eight dual-core chips or four quad-core chips. Microsoft said on Thursday it is pulling features out of the initial version of its 'Viridian' hypervisor to avoid... [11 May 2007]
Intel at work on Linux mini-tablet
News While McCaslin's CPU components - codenamed Stealey - will be dual-core processors clocked at 600MHz to 800MHz and capable of running Windows XP and Vista, Intel plans for the devices to run an embedded Linux OS but with a mix of open source and... [16 Apr 2007]
Give IT managers incentive to go green, says HP
News The dx2250, which retails for around £229, comes with a 64-bit AMD Athlon X2 dual-core processor and features HP's Cool'n'Quiet technology, which the vendor claims reduces processor heat and makes for a quieter work environment. [02 Apr 2007]
AMD takes knife to desktop chip prices
News The cuts, as much as 35 per cent on high-end dual-core Athlon 64 X2 processors, come just weeks after rival chipmaker Intel made a similar pricing move. The steepest drops came on the highest-performing chips but every dual-core desktop model was... [12 Feb 2007]
Intel, AMD fight it out for market share
News McCarron said: "Intel's gains in the server market are basically due to them having 'Woodcrest'" - referring to Intel's dual-core Xeon 5100 chip for dual-processor servers. Intel's 'Clovertown' processor, which squeezes two Woodcrest chips into a... [31 Jan 2007]
Intel's Xeon back in the Sun
News John Fowler, Sun's executive vice president for servers, said: "Woodcrest and Clovertown are substantially improved technology," referring to the dual-core and quad-core Xeon processors geared for dual-processor servers. [23 Jan 2007]
Sun set to bring back Intel's Xeon for servers
News Sun pushed Intel out of its x86 server line in favour of AMD's Opteron in early 2005, saying Intel's chips were slower and more power-hungry, but Intel's new dual-core Xeon 5100 "Woodcrest" and quad-core Xeon 5300 "Clovertown" processors have... [22 Jan 2007]
Cambridge boffins unveil Dell supercomputer
News The supercomputer uses Dell's ninth-generation servers and storage units with Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors to provide scientists with super-fast simulations. The boffins at the University of Cambridge have joined forces with Dell to unveil one... [22 Nov 2006]
