Scott Ferguson

Dell’s chief financial officer is leaving the company and being replaced by the former head of a plastics company that had been part of General Electric, company officials announced May 19. Don Carty will leave his CFO position on June 13 and be replaced by Brian Gladden, former president and CEO of SABIC Innovative Plastics […]

Hewlett-Packard is working to fix the problems that affected customers who attempted to install Microsoft’s Windows XP Service Pack 3 on desktops based on Advanced Micro Devices processors. The reboot problems with certain HP desktops and SP3 began appearing after Microsoft posted the service pack on its Web site earlier in May. The issues have […]

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.-In the Warner Bros. cartoons, the Road Runner dashed across a vast desert landscape continually outmaneuvering its archrival, Wile E. Coyote, thanks to incredible speed and quick thinking. IBM’s Roadrunner supercomputer will also find a home in a desert landscape-Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico-and will also rely on speed and quick thinking, […]

IBM is preparing to release a new BladeCenter system that uses an updated version of its Cell processor and looks to boost the company’s portfolio of high-performance computing products. The BladeCenter QS22 is the latest blade system that IBM has built around the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture it codeveloped with Toshiba and Sony for use […]

Sun Microsystems is now the latest vendor to use Advanced Micro Devices’ quad-core Opteron chips in its rack-mount server and blade portfolios. Sun is offering eight systems that take advantage of the quad-core Opteron processors formerly code-named Barcelona. The one blade and seven rack-mount systems that are being released May 13 are part of Sun’s […]

In its ongoing effort to return to financial stability, Advanced Micro Devices announced May 12 that it is reorganizing its executive leadership to streamline its business operations. AMD announced that Randy Allen, who oversaw the chip maker’s workstation and server division, is now the senior vice president in charge of the Computing Solutions Group, with […]

Advanced Micro Devices is rounding out its quad-core Opteron portfolio with new low-watt processors for its 8300 and 2300 series. The five new Opterons, which the company plans to announce May 12, all work within a 55-watt thermal envelope. When AMD first detailed its quad-core Opteron portfolio in September 2007, it promised processors that worked […]

IT giant HP plans to buy EDS (Electronic Data Systems) for between $12 billion and $13 billion, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal May 12. The acquisition will likely help add to HP’s services portfolio, which could mean a new set of options for customers. While HP has continued to improve its offerings […]

A rebooting problem related to the release of the Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 is continuing to cause problems with certain Hewlett-Packard desktops that use AMD processors, although a new patch is expected in a few days. The problem with SP3 first began appearing a few days after Microsoft released SP3 for its XP […]

The first of a new generation of IBM supercomputers that use water for cooling is on its way to Colorado for use within the National Center for Atmospheric Research. The supercomputer-Bluefire-will replace three older systems at the NCAR’s facility in Boulder in August when the machine goes online for the first time. At its peak, […]