Jeff Burt

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. got a boost Thursday when the Los Alamos National Laboratory announced it will use more than 3,300 Opteron chips in two of its Linux clusters. The laboratory will use 2,800 of the AMD chips in what is being called the Lightening cluster, which will be used to support the National Nuclear […]

ATLANTA—Hewlett-Packard Co. is buying Extreme Logic Inc., a move officials said will extend the .Net capabilities of its services group. During her Wednesday morning keynote speech at HP World 2003 here, Ann Livermore, executive vice president of HP Services, said 200 employees of the Atlanta-based company will be merged into HPs services group. Extreme Logic […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is creating a board consisting of customers and partners to advise the company as it pushes forward with its low-end systems based on the x86 architecture. Sun this week announced the creation of its x86 ISV Advisory Board, similar to the Linux ISV Advisory Board, which the Santa Clara, Calif., company established […]

ATLANTA—Several vendors are using the HP World show here this week as a way of promoting the developing SAS—or Serial Attached SCSI—interface. Maxtor Corp. is showing off its 3.5-inch disk drive, and Seagate Technology Inc. is demonstrating a 2.5-inch hard drive. Meanwhile, Adaptec Inc. is debuting a prototype of a SAS chip that can run […]

Transmeta Corp. is giving its forthcoming energy-efficient processor, which until now has been known as Astro, the brand name Efficeon. The chip, also known as the TM8000 processor, will begin shipping in the third quarter, and Transmeta officials will unveil many of the speeds and feeds at Octobers Microprocessor Forum, according to Mike DeNeffe, marketing […]

ATLANTA—ClearCube Technology Inc. is planning to extend the capability of its blade PCs to enable businesses to put multiple users on a single blade. The move will enable the Austin, Texas, company to make its blade PC concept available to smaller companies, Ken Knotts, senior technologist, said in an interview Tuesday at the HP World […]

ATLANTA—Hewlett-Packard Co.s Adaptive Enterprise initiative is not “magic pixie dust [or] magic binoculars,” but a strategy that already has proven its value in the companys acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp., according to HP Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina. Talking to several thousand customers and partners here at HP World, Fiorina said the steps that HP […]

As Hewlett-Packard Co. takes its Adaptive Enterprise strategy for utility computing on the road over the next few weeks, it may find it a little more difficult to explain than expected. A combination of several similar-sounding utility computing initiatives and a general lack of interest in and confusion over the concepts will make HPs efforts […]

As Sun Microsystems Inc. upgrades its four-processor server, Gateway Inc. looks to provide enterprises with an alternative four-way system backed up with services from IBM. Sun last week bulked up its four-way Sun Fire V480 server by upgrading its processor to the 1.05GHz UltraSPARC III chip. Officials with the Santa Clara, Calif., company said the […]

Infinicon Systems last week unveiled an InfiniBand switching system that mirrors what users are seeing in the server space: a lot of performance in a small form factor. InfiniCons InfinIO 3000 Switching Series contains up to 32 10G-bps InfiniBand ports in a 1U (1.75-inch) rack that offers up to 640GB of throughput, said company officials. […]

Enterprises looking to ease the management of their data centers will get help over the next couple of months from Opsware Inc., BladeLogic Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. Opsware and BladeLogic next month will each release offerings that will give businesses greater control over their data center resources. Separately, Sun later this fiscal quarter will […]

NEW YORK—Hewlett-Packard Co. officials earlier this year told enterprises to demand more. Now theyre telling consumers to enjoy more. HP on Monday rolled out 158 new consumer products, from printers to digital cameras to computers, in what Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina called the largest product launch in company history. “We are introducing today almost […]