Cray wins Blue Waters supercomputer contract
Supercomputer peddler Cray has won a huge contract with the University of Illinois' National Center [sic] for Supercomputing Applications. It'll be providing the beast of a machine for the National...
View ArticleSlough outfit creates "world's fastest" hosting server
A Slough company claims that it is building the "world's fastest" servers to be used by the hosting market. 1&1 said that its Server XXL has 32 processor cores and the company is certain that it's...
View ArticleMIT's Tilera 100 core chip out this year
Tilera has said that it will release a 100 core chip later this year after promising us one since 2009. The TILE-Gx range was supposed to come out in 16, 36, 64, and 100 core models. While the 16, 36,...
View ArticleAMD gives the nod to LRDIMM memory
Inphi has managed to get its load-reduced dual-inline memory modules (LRDIMMs) running on the AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors, formerly code-named Interlagos. AMD has validated the new type of...
View ArticleWork started on Blue Waters supercomputer
Building work has begun on what could be one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. Blue Waters is supposed to give a sustained performance of one petaflop, and is so clever that its very...
View ArticleCray cuts the cost of its midrange supercomputers
Supercomputer outfit Cray has announced that it is trying to make its mid-range efforts cheaper. The outfit has announced that it is releasing mid-range supercomputers starting at $200,000. This will...
View ArticleHybrid drives are best of both worlds
We’ve got a few gems for you today, starting off with Tom’s Hardware and the Seagate’s Momentus XT 750 GB hybrid drive, now in its second generation. It seems hybrid drives manage to combine the best...
View ArticleAMD creates commercial resonant clock mesh
Fabless chipmaker AMD said that it has managed to create the first commercial implementation of resonant clock mesh technology by using systems licensed from startup company Cyclos Semiconductor....
View ArticleAMD snatches SeaMicro from Intel
AMD has scored a bit of an upset to Chipzilla's cunning plans for low-powered servers by snatching up a start-up called SeaMicro. SeaMicro had been a close chum of Intel and the fact that AMD has just...
View ArticleAMD launches fresh set of Opterons
AMD has announced a new family of Opterons as part of its cunning plan to elbow its way into company cloud and web plans. The Opteron 3200 family is designed for web hosting customers and those who...
View ArticleGlobalFoundries celebrates shipping a quarter of a million wafers
GlobalFoundries has announced that its Fab 1 in Dresden, Germany has shipped a quarter million wafers based on 32nm high-K metal gate (HKMG) technology over the last year. The chipmaker pointed out...
View ArticleAMD to start next gen CPU soon
AMD is set to release its Vishera microprocessors with up to eight Piledriver-class x86 cores in the third quarter. According to Donanimhaber's web site, production of AMD's next-generation...
View ArticleIntel takes majority of supercomputer top 500
The Top 500 supercomputer list gave ample opportunity for bitter rivals Intel and AMD to talk up all the good they're doing in that sector.AMD issued a statement headlined: "AMD supercomputing...
View ArticleAMD applies for a loan
AMD is planning to go to the debt markets to raise more than $300 million. It wants to pay the debt off in 2022. Some of the cash will be used to repay all, or at least some of the debt it has to pay...
View ArticleAMD embraces Redmond with Windows Server 2012
AMD announced that it has been courting Microsoft behind the scenes while Windows Server 2012 was under development to make sure its Opteron chips re "ideally suited to deliver unparalleled server...
View ArticleAMD boasts of big data SeaMicro SM15000
AMD has announced the SeaMicro SM15000 server - and it claims it's the first to optimise the micro server for big data. The SM15000 uses Freedom Fabric Storage, which connects directly to huge disk...
View ArticleOak Ridge's supercomputer, Jaguar, turns Titanic
The US Department of Energy (DOE)'s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has launched its latest flagship supercomputer, dubbed Titan, which is capable of running over 20 petaflops per second using a...
View ArticleAMD announces new Opterons
AMD has released two new families of Opteron server chips. Dubbed the Opteron 3300 and 4300 families they have been on the roadmap under the name of Delhi and Seoul. The 3300 is built for single-socket...
View ArticleAMD mocks Intel's Atom microserver efforts
AMD has made a statement slamming Intel's latest efforts to push into the microserver market. For those who came in late, Intel released Atom S1200-series chips and the processors which it claims are...
View ArticleAMD's Steamroller might be a year early
AMD has released a presentation in which it hinted that Steamroller might come out nearly a year early. The presentation, meant to be seen by investors, puts the launch of the new Steamroller...
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