Jeff Burt

Hewlett-Packard and NEC will combine forces and technologies in an effort to help communications service providers more quickly and easily adopt network-functions virtualization. The two companies announced their collaboration at the Mobile World Congress Shanghai show in China July 14, saying they will bring together HP’s OpenNFV platform with NEC’s virtual network functions and management […]

Since 2007, Intel’s tick-tock processor schedule has gone off like clockwork. It’s what has helped the chip maker drive Moore’s Law while continuing to shrink the size of its processors. That’s about to change. During a conference call with journalists July 15 to talk about the company’s latest quarterly financial numbers, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich […]

The various industry consortiums working on standards and frameworks for the Internet of things continue to roll out software and protocol releases while mapping out pathways for greater interoperability between the groups. The Thread Group, which was founded last year by such tech vendors as ARM, Samsung, Freescale Semiconductor and Google’s Nest Labs, unveiled its […]

China’s Tianhe-2 Heads Static List of 10 Fastest Supercomputers by Jeffrey Burt China Stays on Top The Tianhe-2, housed at the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou, offers a performance of 33.68 petaflops. It’s powered by 12-core Xeon-E5 chips from Intel, whose processors run four of the systems in the top 10. Titan Comes in a […]

Plexxi officials say the future of networks are single-tier, low-latency infrastructures that can scale quickly and that first determine what resources the workloads require, then set about to pull those resources together dynamically. To promote that vision, the company is launching its Plexxi Switch 2 Series, which officials said collapses the network into a single […]

SUSE officials are throwing their support behind ARM-based servers, saying that version 12 of SUSE Enterprise Linux will run on systems powered by chips from the likes of Applied Micro, Cavium and Advanced Micro Devices. The company announced the support and a partner program July 14 at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Germany, saying […]

Chinese state-backed company Tsinghua Unigroup reportedly is preparing to make a $23 billion bid for memory chip maker Micron Technology, a move that would bolster that country’s efforts to expand its homegrown technology capabilities and continue consolidation in the chip market. According to multiple reports, the company is looking to offer a per-share price of […]

Huawei Technologies is bolstering its network virtualization ambitions by buying the software-defined networking business of Irish software developer Amartus. Huawei officials announced the deal July 13, saying it will help the Chinese networking vendor more rapidly build out its software-defined networking (SDN) roadmap and add to its current capabilities. No financial details were released. Under […]

ARM and chip partners Applied Micro and Cavium are expanding efforts to bring the ARM architecture into the high-performance computing world. At the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) July 13, both chip makers announced moves that they hope will enable their 64-bit ARM-based products to gain more traction in a high-performance computing (HPC) market that is […]

China’s Tianhe-2 supercomputer once again sits atop the list of the world’s fastest systems, a position it now has held for more than two years. The latest Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers was released July 13 at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Germany, and Tianhe-2—also known as Milky Way-2—kept its top spot […]

Hewlett-Packard and Intel are partnering to help push high-performance computing capabilities beyond traditional business segments like oil and gas, life sciences and financial services and into enterprises that are increasingly looking for tools to address their growing big data and analytics needs. The companies announced the alliance July 13 at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), […]

Microsoft’s decision to end support for the Windows XP operating system last year helped significantly slow the years-long decline in PC sales worldwide, giving a much-needed financial boost to system and component makers in 2014. Shipments of PCs last year did fall—by 2.1 percent—over 2013, but the drop was not as precipitous as in previous […]