Jeff Burt

If Facebook officials have their way, their Open Compute Project will go beyond servers and power supplies, touching on every aspect of a data center’s infrastructure. The initiative, which kicked off in April when Facebook open-sourced the server and data center specifications the social networking giant employed in building its data center in Prineville, Ore., […]

Hewlett-Packard is embarking on a project that will enable enterprises to run their mission-critical workloads on either Unix or x86-based server architectures within a single platform. HP’s far-reaching “Project Odyssey” will involve continuing to innovate on the current high-end HP-UX, OpenVMS and NonStop solutions and Integrity servers running on Intel’s Itanium processing platform, while also […]

Intel is only keeping its controversial high-end Itanium chip alive because Hewlett-Packard is paying it to do so, according to Oracle officials. In a court filing Nov. 18, Oracle executives say that HP is “secretly” paying Intel to continue development of the Itanium platform so that HP can keep using the chip in its high-end […]

SEATTLE-Hewlett-Packard, Dell and other systems makers are quickly adopting new processors and other technologies as they look to meet demands in a high-performance computing market that is expanding beyond universities and research institutions into mainstream enterprises. At the SC 11 supercomputing show here, those OEMs and others-including Cray, Appro, Penguin Computing, SGI and Acer-quickly announced […]

Cisco Systems is looking to grow the capabilities of its collaboration offerings-including WebEx and Jabber-to address the mobile trends of what company executives agree is the “post-PC” era. At the Cisco Collaboration Summit 2011 event in Miami Nov. 16, company officials announced enhancements to WebEx and Jabber to enable users to leverage the new technologies-from […]

SEATTLE, – Intel is continuing the aggressive expansion of the hardware, software and services offerings the chip maker offers to systems makers to sell to businesses. In the first half of 2012, Intel’s Enterprise Platform and Services Division (EPSD) will roll out 12 new platform offerings-such as motherboards for servers and workstations-that not only will […]

Uncertain global economic conditions, the flooding in Thailand and rising product inventory are leading two market research firms to lower their expectations for the worldwide semiconductor market for the fourth quarter. Analysts from Gartner and IHS iSuppli said in separate reports Nov. 17 that the semiconductor market-which includes everything from microprocessors and memory chips to […]

SEATTLE-Intel executives are showing off the first working samples of its Knights Corner silicon, a key technology in the chip maker’s drive toward exascale computing. Rajeeb Hazra, general manager of Intel’s Technical Computing Group, held up a Knights Corner chip during a press conference Nov. 15 here at the SC 11 supercomputing show, telling analysts […]

SEATTLE-The computing industry’s march toward exascale capabilities will be hindered unless technology vendors can solve the growing problem of power consumption, according to the head of Nvidia, a company that has benefited from the drive for greater energy efficiency. During a keynote address Nov. 15 at the SC 11 supercomputing show here, Jen-Hsun Huang, president […]

SEATTLE – Fujitsu’s K Computer, which in June put Japan back at the top of the list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, kept the No. 1 ranking in the latest list, becoming the first system to pass the 10-petaflop barrier. The supercomputer, which is being installed at the Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science […]

SEATTLE, Wash.-Cray will take over from IBM the project to build a supercomputer at the University of Illinois, the second significant federally funded project to feature the system maker’s technology. Cray officials on Nov. 14 announced that the company will build the supercomputer at the university’s National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) that will be […]

SEATTLE, Wash.-The Barcelona Supercomputing Center will use a combination of CPUs and graphics technology from Nvidia in a hybrid supercomputer that researchers expect will enable exascale computing while using 15 to 30 percent less power than traditional architectures. The supercomputer, dubbed the EU Mont-Blanc Project, will use Nvidia’s quad-core Tegra 3, which is based on […]