Jeff Burt

Fujitsu officials, a week after unveiling their commercial PrimeHPC FX10 supercomputer, are saying that the company has now received its first order for the massive system. Fujitsu announced Nov. 14 that the Supercomputing Division of Information Technology Center for the University of Tokyo (SCD/ITC) has ordered the PrimeHPC FX10, a system comprising primarily all Fujitsu […]

SEATTLE-Advanced Micro Devices is launching its long-awaited “Bulldozer” core-based Opteron server chips that officials say will offer the performance and scalability demanded in virtualized data centers and the energy efficiency needed for cloud environments. AMD began shipping the 16-core Opteron 6200 “Interlagos” chips in September, but waited until Nov. 14 to officially announce the availability […]

K Computer The supercomputer is powered by 705,024 of Fujitsus SPARC64 processors spread over 864 server racks. When the system entered the list at No. 1 in June, it marked the first time since 2004, when Fujitsus Earth Simulator was knocked off the perch, that a Japanese computer headed the list. Tianhe-A1 Developed by the […]

Intel reportedly is developing a new family of processors designed specifically for tablets, a move that would be a departure from previous plans to have the upcoming Atom “Medfield” platform support both smartphones and tablets. According to a Nov. 11 report from news Website DigiTimes, the new tablet-focused lineup of chips will come out in […]

Alcatel-Lucent is rolling out its OpenTouch communications platform as it looks to strengthen its position in the booming video conferencing and unified communications spaces. Alcatel-Lucent officials first announced OpenTouch in April and launched the communications platform Nov. 10, initially coming out with three packages. The goal of the OpenTouch suite of technologies is to enable […]

Cisco Systems has spent much of the past year undergoing a gut-wrenching reorganization that has included shedding business units and more than 8,000 jobs in an effort to streamline the company after several quarters of difficult financial results. In announcing the networking giant’s fiscal year 2012 first-quarter financial numbers Nov. 9, Cisco CEO John Chambers […]

Vidyo is bringing its video-collaboration technology to the cloud. Vidyo officials on Nov. 8 unveiled the Virtualized VidyoRouter, an all-software version of its Vidyo Router appliance that can be run on virtual machines from the likes of VMware and be deployed in hybrid, private or public clouds, such as Amazon Web Services. The offering greatly […]

Fujitsu, leveraging the supercomputing expertise it’s developed through building systems like the powerful K Computer, is now looking to sell such massive computing systems commercially. Fujitsu officials on Nov. 7 unveiled the PrimeHPC FX10 supercomputer, which they said is capable of scaling up to 23.3 petaflops (or quadrillion floating point operations per second) and comprises […]

Brocade wants to give enterprises looking for alternatives to Cisco Systems affordable and scalable options for their campus networking environments. Brocade officials on Nov. 8 rolled out new Ethernet switches that they say will enable companies to quickly adapt to changing business and application demands while driving down overall networking costs. In a statement announcing […]

Ultrabooks will account for more than 40 percent of all notebooks by 2015, and will reinvigorate a listless PC market that has been hurt in part by the rise in popularity of tablets, in particular Apple’s popular iPad, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli. In a report Nov. 7, IHS iSuppli analysts said that […]

Polycom and Sabre Travel Network, which offers technology solutions to the travel industry, are developing a global reservations solution that will enable customers to schedule video conferences in the same fashion that many businesses now schedule their travel. Through Sabre Virtual Meetings, businesses and users will be able to schedule video conferencing meetings and reserve […]

The processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices that include integrated graphics technologies are rapidly becoming a larger part of each vendor’s product mix and are driving up overall chip selling prices, according to market research firm IDC. In a report Nov. 3, IDC analysts said that the average selling price of processors in the […]