Scott Ferguson

Dell is looking to move into one of the PC markets fastest growing areas—ultramobile laptops—with a new offering that takes advantage of Intels new low-watt Core 2 Duo processors. The Round Rock, Texas, PC vendor is now adding the Latitude D430 to its ultramobile lineup as the company looks to keep up with some recent […]

IBM is joining Hewlett- Packard to offer Microsofts Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 for its high-performance computer products. The partnership was presaged by IBMs February announcement that it would start supporting Microsofts Compute Cluster, and IBM said the software suite would now start shipping with its System Cluster 1350. IBM, whose products dominated the top […]

Dell and Emerson Network Power are teaming up to cool down data centers. The two companies announced a joint agreement June 28 that will combine Dells energy efficient PowerEdge servers with Emersons Liebert XD and Liebert DS cooling systems. The results of the partnership, according to the executives with both companies, are data centers with […]

Dell is revamping its high-end workstation line with a notebook that will include Intels new Centrino Pro platform and enhanced graphics technology from Nvidia. The Dell Precision M4300, which debuted on the Round Rock, Texas, companys Web site June 27, is immediately available and is the eventual replacement for the M65 workstation notebook. In addition […]

Once again, IBM can lay claim to having the worlds fastest supercomputer. The list of the top 500 supercomputers in the world was released June 27 at the International Supercomputer Conference in Dresden, Germany, with IBM taking top honors for the fourth straight time. Big Blue, of Armonk, N.Y., built six of the top 10 […]

Intel, a company better known for its microprocessors, will begin offering a new connector cable for the high-performance computing market as the company looks to expand its offerings within the x86 cluster and supercomputer space. At the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany, June 27, executives with the Santa Clara, Calif., company will detail Intel […]

Silicon Graphics, best known for developing supercomputers and other high-performance computing technology, is trying its hand at blade servers as a way to expand its offerings within the enterprise space. At the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany, which starts June 26, SGI will unveil the Altix ICE (Integrated Compute Environment) 8200, a new blade […]

In another sign that the market for blade servers is becoming increasingly competitive, Fujitsu Computer Systems launched a new server and chassis June 26, touting the systems I/O and power performance to entice customers. Fujitsus two-socket BX620 S4 will compete in a market notoriously dominated by Hewlett-Packard and IBM, who together dominate about 75 percent […]

A pair of IT icons are looking to bring Windows into the high-performance computer space. Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard jointly announced June 26 that both companies would pour millions into packaging Microsofts Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 suite with HPs Unified Cluster Portfolio. The announcement between HP and Microsoft comes at the start of the 2007 […]

XenSource has signed a new agreement with NEC that looks to expand the market for XenEnterprise. The June 25 agreement gives XenSource, the Palo Alto, Calif., virtualization company created by the original developers of the Xen open-source hypervisor project, access to an OEM with a significant global reach in the x86 market. For NEC, the […]