Jeff Burt

Since Rackable Systems bought Silicon Graphics in May, officials with the new SGI have been working to close what they said is a market gap in the high-performance computing space between workstations and clusters. SGI in August began closing that gap with the CloudRack X2 cluster aimed at the department and workgroup levels. On Sept. […]

Dell is wrapping up a difficult week in the courtroom. Dell was ordered Sept. 15 to pay a $4 million fine in New York for misleading consumers about financing terms, warranties and rebates on their PCs. Around the same time, the computer maker found itself embroiled in a civil trial in New Orleans involving that […]

Intel and AT&T are teaming up to give SMBs the same level of remote PC tech support as their larger brethren. The two companies announced Sept. 17 that AT&T’s Tech Support 360 help desk offering will support Intel’s vPro remote management technology for desktops and laptops. AT&T launched the Tech Support 360 initiative in the […]

Marc Andreessen, a co-founder of Netscape Communications, a pioneer in Web browsing, is the latest member of the board of directors at Hewlett-Packard. HP announced Sept. 17 that Andreessen will be the 11th board member. He already serves on the boards of eBay and Facebook. Mark Hurd, HP’s chairman and CEO, praised Andreessen. “Marc Andreessen […]

Cisco Systems and IBM continue to pull in partners and roll out products and services tied to their smart grid efforts. A day after IBM introduced a platform designed to make it easier for utilities to become more efficient and software makers to build their offerings, Cisco Sept. 17 is announcing its Smart Grid Ecosystem […]

Rambus officials are continuing their push to develop new memory technologies that address the demands coming from multicore computing and virtualized environments. Rambus and memory product maker Kingston Technology announced Sept. 17 that they had developed a prototype DDR3 memory module that increases performance and lowers power in accessing main memory. The companies will demo […]

IBM is bringing its technology to Dubuque, Iowa, to help the city become smarter in how it distributes and consumes its resources. The partnership between the IT vendor and the city of 60,000 people is part of IBM’s Smarter Planet initiative, which aims to use technology resources to help communities reduce the impact on the […]

Advanced Micro Devices has rolled out a quad-core desktop chip for system builders priced at $99. AMD announced the pricing for the 2.6GHz Athlon II X4 processors Sept. 16. Combining the processor with the 785G chip set, which includes ATI Radeon HD 4200 graphics capabilities, brings the cost to about $170. AMD officials touted the […]

Hewlett-Packard is ramping up the competition with Cisco Systems, IBM and others in the burgeoning converged data center space by integrated its ProCurve networking technology with its BladeSystems blade server platform. HP engineers have been working to more closely tie the company’s substantial data center hardware offerings with its increasingly competitive networking products. The integration […]

IBM and Cisco Systems have been among the more aggressive IT vendors looking to bring their technologies into the rapidly growing smart grid space. Now IBM wants to be the pathway that others can use to get into the market. Company officials Sept. 16 rolled out a software platform that IBM said not only will […]

Eight Ways Nvidia, AMD and Other GPUs Boost HPC Coprocessing is Here New operating systems such as Apple’s “Snow Leopard” Mac OS X with OpenCL and Microsoft’s Windows 7 with DirectCompute interfaces are being designed to utilize GPUs for tasks that go beyond graphics. Coprocessing leverages the sequential architecture of CPUs and the massively parallel […]

Somewhat lost among the news of Intel’s internal reorganization and the departure of longtime executive Pat Gelsinger for EMC Sept. 14 was the fact that Bruce Sewell, Intel’s general counsel, also left the company. On Sept. 15, Apple announced that Sewell will join that vendor in the same capacity. Sewell, who will be Apple’s general […]