Jeff Burt

IBM is bringing new grid computing capabilities to its line of mainframe systems. Grid computing, which traditionally entails the linking of many Intel Corp.-based servers to create a virtual supercomputer with lots of processing power, will gain a rock-solid building block that already houses many basic grid technologies, IBM officials said. The Armonk, N.Y., company […]

Unisys Corp. is looking to bring its high-end server features into the midrange. The Blue Bell, Pa., company on Monday is launching the first expansion of its ES7000 line of Windows- and Intel-based servers. The ES7000/500 family of servers is scalable from four to 32 processors, all packed into 4U (seven-inch) racks. The suite comes […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. is expanding the capacity-on-demand functionality of its midrange Unix servers to include memory and cell boards as well as processors. The announcement Thursday was part of a package of moves—including service enhancements and price cuts—by the Palo Alto, Calif., company to keep its top spot in the midrange Unix space. The enhancements and […]

NEW YORK—Clusters of smaller, Intel-based servers will continue to overtake larger proprietary systems over the next few years, eventually becoming the predominant architecture in all aspects of enterprise data centers. That was the message delivered on Wednesday by Michael Dell and Larry Ellison during a press conference here. In announcing their companies growing relationship, Dell, […]

Hewlett-Packard Co.s Imaging and Printing Group on Wednesday introduced new products and services targeted at small and mid-sized businesses. The Palo Alto, Calif., company rolled out two new printers as well as an interactive online resource center designed to help businesses create and maintain their printing systems. Small and mid-sized businesses—which HP defines as having […]

Intel Corp. this week released faster Celeron chips for low-end and consumer desktop PCs. The Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker on Monday rolled out Celeron processors that run at 2.3GHz and 2.4GHz. The fastest current Celeron runs at 2.2GHz. Built on Intels 0.13-micron process, the chips also feature a 400MHz front-side bus. The 2.3GHz Celeron […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Fujitsu Ltd., partners in flash memory development since 1993, are combining their respective flash memory businesses to create a new company. In announcing a memorandum of understanding Monday, executives from both companies said the new business, which will be called FASL LLC and based in Sunnyvale, Calif., will boost their […]

MPC Computers LLC on Monday continued its drive to grow its product line beyond desktops, unveiling a new four-way server and two new notebooks aimed at the enterprise and government spaces. MPC—formerly MicronPC—rolled out its NetFrame 6600 server, which is powered by up to four Intel Corp. 2GHz Xeon MP processors and offers up to […]

IBM on Monday said it is bringing new grid computing capabilities to its line of mainframe systems. The Armonk, N.Y., company announced that grid computing companies DataSynapse Inc. and Platform Computing Inc. are making their grid computing products available on IBMs eServer zSeries line of high-end servers. In addition, IBM also is incorporating the Globus […]

Hewlett-Packard Co.s newest server targeted for small and midsize businesses includes performance and power enhancements and bridges the gap between the Palo Alto, Calif., companys tc2100 offerings and its ProLiant ML300 servers. The tc2120 server comes equipped with a single Intel Corp. processor—either a 2.53GHz Pentium 4 chip or a 1.8GHz Celeron. The Pentium 4 […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. and Topspin Communications Inc. will jointly develop and license InfiniBand technology designed to improve performance of data centers that use Sun systems. Sun next year will begin rolling out InfiniBand-ready server and storage hardware with InfiniBand interfaces to Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet devices, according to John Davis, director of volume systems […]

The Texas Advanced Computing Center, or TACC, is buying a supercomputing cluster from IBM, the latest announcement in a busy month for supercomputer purchases. Housed at the University of Texas at Austin, the center will use the cluster to help model surface and subsurface flow in hopes of improving oil-drilling techniques. IBM officials on Friday […]