network processors in news
Cern IT gets new home as servers suck grid dry
News A large part of the existing computer centre in Geneva is devoted to processing and storing the 15 petabytes of data that will be produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator each year, as well as being the main hub... [06 Oct 2008]
Large Hadron Collider puts a grid on it
News The Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid can draw on the computing power of more than 100,000 processors. Scientists who spent years building the grid and its dedicated 10Gbps connections to 11 key sites - the... [03 Oct 2008]
Google: Server efficiency needs different approach
News That lets processors and other electronics save power by spending most of the time in low-power sleep modes, snapping awake for peak-power, high-performance modes when necessary. Processors have come in... [25 Jun 2008]
Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT
News The processors within the NEC supercomputer work in parallel, allowing it to simultaneously link and process climate data from 4km parcels of the UK, giving it the ability to forecast weather at a county level. [09 May 2008]
Intel eyeing up the mobile space
News Intel is lining its Silverthorne chips up against the mobile industry's ARM-based processors in anticipation of the next silicon battleground. But this is actually two big things: not only does Intel want to create an... [20 Sep 2007]
Google grabs PeakStream
News Google has acquired PeakStream, a start-up that sells tools for writing software that can take advantage of multicore processors as well as graphics and gaming chips. Newer computers contain advanced... [06 Jun 2007]
Microsoft strips features from 'Viridian'
News The initial release of Viridian also won't support on-the-fly, or 'hot', adding of memory, storage, processors or network cards. Microsoft said on Thursday it is pulling features out of the initial... [11 May 2007]
US servers guzzle more power than Mississippi
News Among the touted fixes are energy-efficient processors, power consumption caps, water cooling and consolidation of work from numerous inefficient low-end servers to fewer more powerful machines. The study included... [15 Feb 2007]
Aardman gets animated about its IT
News At present the company works mainly on co-productions and so has just 200 rendering processors in Bristol. To make a full feature-film in-house would require 1,500 to 2,000 rendering processors. On... [04 Jan 2007]
Hackers 'will crack Windows security tech soon'
News However, while that Windows version was never broadly adopted, PatchGuard is set to become used more widely, when Vista hits store shelves in January and people are expected to buy PCs with 64-bit processors and 64-bit... [13 Oct 2006]
Credit card companies forge security alliance
News That includes merchants, payment processors, point-of-sale vendors, financial institutions and more than a billion card holders worldwide. A statement released by the newly formed council said the revisions were the... [08 Sep 2006]
Sun Grid set to go live, says Schwartz
News It will let people in the US use servers with either AMD Opteron or Sun UltraSparc processors. The "on-demand supercomputer" will be housed at Network.com, Schwartz said on Monday on his blog. Sun... [22 Mar 2006]
RIM goes back to Intel for BlackBerry
News Intel already sells its XScale chips in the handheld market but they tend to be versions of older processors that provide lower levels of performance. EDGE is a mobile network standard that lets users... [02 Nov 2005]
Intel profits creep up on back of laptop demand
News He said in a statement: "The combination of our 65nm manufacturing network, broad range of new dual-core processors and unique ability to provide platform solutions positions us well for continued growth. [19 Oct 2005]
Voca obeys call for cheaper Euro payments
News Processors need to be practical, flexible and robust. We needed a flexible, generic and modular payments infrastructure - one that comprised reusable common elements of hardware, network and software. [12 Oct 2005]
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