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It's Smooth Sailing for the Biggest Yachting Event in the World Thanks to Microsoft Web Solution Platform
White Paper Every summer more than 5,500 yachtsmen from 50 countries and some hundreds of thousands of fans make "Kieler Woche" in the north of Germany the highlight of the regatta season. Microsoft Windows DNA (Microsoft's Web... [07 Oct 2008]
Photos: New Dell laptops shed the pounds
Photo The Latitude range is available in five colours: Mica-Brushed Metal, Regatta Blue, Regal Red, Quartz Pink and Matte Black. This is the new Latitude family of ultra-portable laptops from Dell. The company has collaborated... [13 Aug 2008]
Regatta Sets Optimal Courses for 1,000 Boats With Pioneering Use of Visual Technology
White Paper Skandia Cowes Week Regatta - one of the largest competitions of its type in the world - set its sailing courses using pins and string on a wall-mounted chart of the waters, as it had for most of its 180 years. [20 Jun 2007]
IBM pushes Power besides Itanium
News IBM's top-end p690 Regatta Unix server, which uses IBM's Power4 processor, bumped aside a Hewlett-Packard machine using Itanium for the top spot on the Transaction Processing Performance Council's widely watched TPC-C test. [01 Jul 2003]
IBM supercomputer brews up a storm
News The first phase, which began operating last month, is a cluster of 44 IBM p690 "Regatta" servers along with 42 terabytes of IBM FastT500 storage servers. With Atlantic hurricane season just getting under way, the... [06 Jun 2003]
IBM and co tackle smallpox with grid computing
News IBM is providing back-end infrastructure to the effort, including more than one of its top-end p690 'Regatta' servers, DB2 software and its enterprise storage server Shark system. IBM and a host of technology partners... [05 Feb 2003]
IBM server overtakes HP in speed test
News By doubling the memory in its 32-processor p690 "Regatta" server from 256GB to 512GB, IBM increased its speed measurement from 403,000 to 428,000 transactions per minute, a smidgen faster than the 423,000 from HP's... [03 Jan 2003]
IBM: It's Blocking Missiles
News IBM plans to announce Monday that it has won a deal to supply the Defense Department with 66 high-end p690 "Regatta" Unix servers to be used as part of the country's ground-based missile defence program. [19 Aug 2002]
Sun has a rosy quarter...
News Sales of the Sun Fire 12K - a rival to IBM's Regatta - made a strong start, he said, with more than 100 units ordered over the past quarter. Sun Microsystems has posted its first annual loss since it started public... [19 Jul 2002]
IBM wins HP server battle
News Big Blue's p690 Regatta server posted a score of 403,000 transactions per minute on a speed test called TPC-C, compares to a 389,000 score by HP's Superdome machine. IBM has edged past HP to claim the crown in a series... [24 May 2002]
IBM's Palmisano addresses the masses
News He spoke in detail about Regatta, IBM's supercomputing chip technology. IBM's new CEO Sam Palmisano made his public debut yesterday at the company's shareholder meeting. Palmisano gave the audience an overview of future... [01 May 2002]
Sun gets hip with the Starcat
News Sun has stolen a march on IBM in this space, but Big Blue is due to launch its competing 32-processor Regatta server next week. Sun Microsystems is expected to launch its most ambitious server product so far later today. [25 Sep 2001]
IBM rocks boat with Regatta
News IBM has revealed several new features that will go into its forthcoming Regatta server, the first in a new line of Unix servers, as it tries to claw back market share from HP and Sun. The Regatta server... [23 Aug 2001]
Linux speeds IBM servers
News They also have partitioning, which IBM is not due to bring in until it unveils its Regatta range of servers in October. The company claims that the new servers, the p620 and p660, will be 30 to 40 per cent faster than... [23 Apr 2001]
IT sailors ride the waves for charity
News The IT industry sailing regatta, held in the Solent Waters off Southampton, was sponsored by BT Syncordia and organised by Lymington-based Events UK. The IT industry braved stormy weather to raise £4,600 for IT Relief... [01 Jun 2000]
