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| 01 Jul 2008 |
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University of Houston selects Itanium over x86 for memory-intensive apps
The University of Houston, an Itanium Solutions award winner, chose Itanium-based systems for its research on the effects of global warming. |
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| 30 Jun 2008 |
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Data center tour: Equinix shows off its upside down data center
EXCLUSIVE!
With almost 300,000 square feet in its Chicago-area data center, Equinix has a huge power and cooling infrastructure built to handle its customers' colocation needs. |
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Serial computing is dead; the future is parallelism
At the Usenix conference, computer scientist David Patterson declared that serial computing is dead. But parallel computing experts fret that programmers lack the training for para... |
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| 20 Jun 2008 |
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Sun has deepened PostgreSQL/Solaris integration, says university
Despite initial wariness after Sun's acquisition of MySQL, the University of Waterloo now commends the new Sun Solaris 10 OS update for improved integration with PostgreSQL. |
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| 17 Jun 2008 |
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Linux on the mainframe: Analyze thy workloads
In an interview, Cirba's CTO and co-founder discusses which workloads are suitable for mainframe zLinux, why analyzing workloads is important and how the z10 mainframe is different... |
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IBM sells RackForce on Enterprise Modular Data Center
The new green data center at hosting company RackForce will use hydropower for primary power and natural gas to help run backup generators. |
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| 16 Jun 2008 |
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HP puts fault-tolerant NonStop on a blade
HP's latest fault-tolerant Integrity NonStop servers may rival the IBM mainframe. They come on a c-Class BladeSystem blade for mainframe-level availability in a more cost-effective... |
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| 12 Jun 2008 |
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Google et al. pitch cloud computing to wary IT pros
Google, Amazon and Salesforce.com touted cloud computing and challenged CIOs' concerns about security, cloud lock-in and a lack of standards at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference. |
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| 11 Jun 2008 |
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CA tackles compliance, automation and security with new product launches
CA has rounded out its business service management portfolio with tools for software compliance, IT security compliance and IT process automation. |
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IBM to sell building-block, containerized data centers
Now that IBM has a data center in a shipping container -- much like those from Sun Microsystems and Rackable Systems -- it also offers a building-block data center and a high-densi... |
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As chips go multicore, researchers strive to parallelize more apps
Stanford University has established a research lab to devise easier ways to parallelize applications, enabling users to truly exploit the benefits of multicore processors. |
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| 10 Jun 2008 |
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BMC tool optimizes zIIP and zAAP use by IBM mainframe
With the help of capacity performance software from BMC, Harris County says it can better determine which work to offload to mainframe specialty processors. |
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| 09 Jun 2008 |
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AMD releases quad-core Opterons for two-, four- and eight-socket systems
AMD's new Opteron quad-core processors for four- and eight-way systems are designed for high-performance computing applications on scaled-up x86 servers and are being sold in IBM, ... |
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| 05 Jun 2008 |
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ITIL v3 contributor reflects on IT's changing focus
In a discussion of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), author of ITIL v3 David Cannnon explains how ITIL and IT service management have transformed the role of IT. |
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