Jeff Burt

Nvidia officials for five years have been promoting the use of their graphics technology to help speed up systems being used in high-performance computing environments. At the 2013 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Germany June 18, Nvidia outlined efforts that officials say not only validate what the company has done up to this point, but […]

Advanced Micro Devices officials are laying out a server chip road map that includes the company’s first ARM-based processor named “Seattle” that will begin appearing in the second half of 2014. Seattle is part of a larger effort by AMD to build Opteron server processors that meet the demands for greater system performance and energy […]

China’s Tianhe-2 Takes Top Spot on Top500 List From Cray’s Titan by Jeffrey Burt China’s Tianhe-2 Uses Primarily Home-Grown Technology The supercomputer is powered by more than 3.12 million Intel processor cores, but according to Top500 editor Jack Dongarra, “Most of the features of the system were developed in China, and they are only using […]

Intel officials, seven months after introducing the company’s Xeon Phi coprocessors for high-performance computing systems, are highlighting the technology’s success while giving the industry a glimpse of what will come in the next generation, called “Knights Landing.” At the same time, the company is expanding the current Xeon Phi portfolio with two new product lines […]

China’s massive Intel-powered Tianhe-2 supercomputer—coming out two years ahead of schedule—is ending the Cray Titan’s run as the fastest system in the world. At the 2013 International Supercomputing Conference in Germany June 17, Tianhe-2—code-named Milky Way-2—sat atop the bi-annual Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputer, with a performance of 33.86 petaflops per second. The […]

Logitech officials, who two years ago expanded their focus beyond consumer products when they created a unit focused on businesses, are looking to leverage what they see as a significant opportunity in the unified communications market. Over the past few months, Logitech has begun shipping a number of products aimed at filling what Mike Langberg, […]

Siemens officials over the past few months have been fairly vocal in their desire to get out of their 6-year-old joint enterprise networking venture with smartphone maker Nokia. Now the company seems poised to act on that desire. Siemens officials are talking with private equity firms about possibly buying Nokia Siemens Networks, according to a […]

Cisco Systems officials are using the company’s Identity Services Engine as a cornerstone of an effort to enable third parties to develop applications to enhance security and context awareness in data center networks. The networking giant is creating a framework called the Platform Exchange Grid (pxGrid), through which developers can create security applications for the […]

Cray officials are adding Intel’s Hadoop distribution to their growing list of supercomputing solutions for the burgeoning big data market. Cray later this month will launch cluster supercomputers for Hadoop applications that will combine the vendor’s CS300 supercomputers with Intel’s Hadoop distribution, a Linux operating system and Cray’s Advanced Cluster Engine (ACE) management software, according […]

Avaya and Blue Jeans Network are demonstrating new and enhanced offerings designed to make it easier for businesses to deploy and use video conferencing. The companies are putting the new capabilities on display this week at the InfoComm 2013 show in Orlando, Fla. Avaya officials at the show are announcing the company’s Video Collaboration Solution […]

IBM officials are looking to accelerate the adoption of Linux in the data center and are taking a number of new steps to push along the effort. At the Red Hat Summit in Boston, IBM officials said the company will support the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization hypervisor technology in the Power servers that run […]

Polycom officials are enhancing the capabilities in the company’s RealPresence video-conferencing offerings for mobile devices and desktop systems. Also at the InfoComm 2013 show in Orlando, Fla., Polycom announced that its browser-based CloudAxis Suite has been given the VMware Ready status, which means that organizations can deploy video via Polycom in a VMware virtualized environment. […]