multiprocessor in news
Intel, AMD fight it out for market share
News McCarron said: "In the server environment, the world's moving more to multiprocessor systems, looking for beefier servers. Intel continued to reclaim server chip market share from AMD in the fourth quarter of 2006 but the smaller rival's strength... [31 Jan 2007]
Dell does AMD deal
News Dell has agreed to use AMD's Opteron chip in multiprocessor servers by the end of the year, ending a long-standing policy of sticking exclusively with Intel. The PC maker made the move public in its first-quarter results press release on Thursday. [19 May 2006]
Torvalds issues new Linux kernel
News Linus Torvalds released a new Linux kernel on Monday that supports features in IBM's Cell processor, includes Oracle software for clustered databases and improves how the open source operating system runs on multiprocessor systems. [22 Mar 2006]
Google warns of spiralling hardware energy costs
News His term for the approach, "chip multiprocessor technology" (CMP), is close to the "chip multithreading" term Sun employs. The electrical costs of running today's computers could end up far greater than the initial hardware price tag if their power... [12 Dec 2005]
Dell to phase out Itanium-based servers
News The writing was on the wall for Dell and Itanium once Intel started aiming the processor at large multiprocessor systems instead of the broader server market. Dell is phasing out Intel Itanium-based servers, a move by one of the chipmaker's closest... [16 Sep 2005]
Longhorn Server to support Intel's Itanium
News Intel in recent years has positioned Itanium chiefly as a processor for powerful multiprocessor servers, a prestigious market but one much smaller than originally envisioned. Microsoft's Longhorn Server version of Windows will support Intel's... [05 Sep 2005]
Red Hat beefs up both Linux offerings
News Red Hat competitor Novell advocates a faster adoption of the 2.6 kernel, which among other things improves performance on multiprocessor servers. Red Hat, the top-ranked seller of the Linux operating system, has expanded chip support for its... [17 May 2004]
Linux guru urges move to new kernel
News The new kernel includes several features, such as the ability to work better on large multiprocessor servers, that are expected to make Linux more appealing to corporate customers. The programmer in charge of the current version 2.4 of the Linux... [08 Dec 2003]
Big Blue puts big investment in Linux
News You will see over time that SMP (symmetrical multiprocessor) size on Power will be in advance of SMP size on Intel," Fry said. IBM is hiring more programmers to beef up work on Linux for its Power line of processors. [15 Jul 2003]
IBM to release beefed-up Intel servers
News Xeon is a 32-bit design intended for lower-end and midrange servers, whereas Itanium is a 64-bit design that more easily supports large amounts of memory, has better features for multiprocessor systems and has mechanisms to protect against data... [27 Jun 2003]
Dell delving deeper into wireless territory
News We will make multiprocessor capabilities for those that want it, but we just don't believe that is the focus of the growth rate," Rollins said. Speaking on Wednesday at Merrill Lynch's Hardware Heaven conference in the US, Rollins said that Dell... [01 May 2003]
Sun goes back to its high-performance roots
News Khan enumerated Sun products appropriate to the market - everything from workstations to grid software to groups of massive multiprocessor Sun Fire 15K servers joined with the high-speed Sun Fire Link technology. [28 Apr 2003]
Windows Server 2003 takes a secure step forward
News The enterprise edition, which is targeted at medium to large companies with more mainstream multiprocessor servers, will be priced at US$3,999 with 25 licenses. Microsoft has finally launched Windows Server 2003, the first product it has delivered... [24 Apr 2003]
Intel addresses some Itanium concerns
News The emulation software's speed, if it meets Intel's expectations, wouldn't be far behind the top 2GHz speed of today's Xeon MP, a chip that like Itanium is designed for multiprocessor servers. Intel will release software later this year designed to... [24 Apr 2003]
HP sharpens its blade's cutting edge
News Though it's not going to impress going up against the heavyweight multiprocessor Xeon blades, Pentium M fits pretty nicely among the blade crowd. HP is to upgrade its ProLiant BL10e blade server with a 1GHz Pentium M - a processor code-named Banias... [22 Apr 2003]
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