Jeff Burt

The National Weather Service has begun building a supercomputer using IBM servers and storage that by 2009 will expand to reach peak speeds of more than 100 teraflops. The first phase of the system—a cluster of 44 eServer p690 eight- to 32-way servers and 42TB of TotalStorage FastT500 disk storage—is up and running at an […]

Intel Corp. on Thursday fine-tuned its second-quarter outlook, predicting that revenue would come in between $6.6 billion and $6.8 billion. At its first-quarter earnings announcement in April, officials with the Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker estimated revenues for the current quarter would come in at between $6.4 billion and $7 billion. The current quarter ends […]

As the industry continues its migration from parallel to serial interconnect technology, the need to test the new I/O buses will continue to grow. Thats where Agilent Technologies Inc. comes in. At the 2003 PCI-SIG Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., this week, Agilent demonstrated its newest PCI Express testing tools, the Agilent E2960 test […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is pumping up the power and cutting the costs in two of its low-end and midrange servers, another move in its aggressive strategy in that space. The Santa Clara, Calif., company equipped its eight-way Sun Fire v880 server with a 1.05GHz UltraSPARC III processor—which Sun officials say offers up to 17 percent […]

Gartner Dataquest Inc. has revised U.S. server market data dating back to 2001, a move that has resulted in Hewlett-Packard Co.s numbers for the last quarter in 2002 moving from an increase to a decline. According to the new numbers released late Monday, HP, of Palo Alto, Calif., saw its overall U.S. server market business […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. and Intel Corp. are pushing industry-standard computing into the telecommunications space. At the in Atlanta on Tuesday, Intel unveiled its carrier-grade TIGPR2U server, powered by dual 2.4GHz Xeon processors with a 533MHz front-side bus. The system is being sold by HP, of Palo Alto, Calif., under the brand name cc3310. It includes two […]

IBM last week rolled out the eServer p615, the last of the Unix-based pSeries systems to be equipped with the companys Power4+ chip. With the 1.45GHz Power4+ processor, the one- or two-way p615 offers many of the same capabilities as high-end and midrange systems, said officials. The entry-level system is the last to get refreshed […]

Intel Corp.s release of its Springdale chip set last month was accompanied by a flurry of new desktops from computer makers hoping the new performance improvements may provide a spark in an otherwise-flat industry. Dell Computer Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. announced new desktops featuring the 865G chip set, which comes with support for Hyper-Threading—an Intel […]

Fujitsu Technology Solutions Inc. is bringing mainframelike capabilities into the low end with the next generations of its two entry-level PrimePower servers. Introduced last week, the Solaris-compatible PrimePower 250 and 450 systems include self-healing and self-monitoring technology and can be connected via the Internet, e-mail or in-house connections to remote monitoring services, according to officials […]

RLX Technologies Inc. is taking a new tack in the blade server industry it helped pioneer, this time on the strength of its software. Less than three weeks into his tenure as The Woodlands, Texas, companys third chairman and CEO, Douglas Erwin has crafted a strategy that will extend the companys Control Tower XT software […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Monday rolled out a new desktop PC aimed at small and mid-sized businesses and the public sector. The HP Business Desktop d325, available immediately, has a starting price of $499. For $669, users can get a PC that is powered by a 1.8GHz Athlon XP 2200+ chip from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. […]

Intel Corp. is speeding up new Centrino processors while cutting the prices on existing chips. The Santa Clara, Calif., company on Monday unveiled a 1.7GHz Pentium M, a low-voltage 1.2GHz chip and an ultra-low voltage 1GHz processor. At the same time, Intel cut the prices on existing Centrino and Pentium M offerings by as much […]