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Oracle did say it intends to release the new SPARC Supercluster at some point in the fourth quarter of 2011 and, for now, things appear to be going smoothly, with no delays in sight.
The supercomputing market is one that, like all other segments of the industry, has been advancing and growing more and more divers... |
23 September 2011
03:55 GMT |
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Oracle has recently let the whole world know that it has no interest in continuing with the development of Sun servers based on the x86 architecture as the company regards these as “commodity” items with low profit margins."I do not care if our commodity x86 business goes to zero. We do not make any mone... |
21 September 2011
09:32 GMT |
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Released a short while ago, the latest version of the TOP5000 supercomputer list has a new leader, a Japanese system that is powered by 68,544 Sparc-based processors from Fujitsu and that is capable of delivering a staggering 8 petaflops of computational power.The so called K Computer is installed at the Riken Advanc... |
20 June 2011
15:31 GMT |
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Users may have heard of how Oracle stopped making software for a certain Intel server platform, and while parties are divided on how to view this turn of events, some analysts think it will be good for the company in the long run.The server industry can be said to have gone through some changes, or at least will exp... |
25 March 2011
04:42 GMT |
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Software giant Oracle and Fujitsu, Japan's largest IT vendor, recently announced that the two companies have extended their collaboration in order to build the next generation of UNIX servers, a move that most likely wants to challenge IBM's and HP's position in this field.
The announcement was shor... |
11 February 2011
05:17 GMT |
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Fujitsu has announced its intention to create the so-called “K computer', a HPC system intended to have a performance about five times that of the Jaguar, the currently most powerful supercomputer in the world.Since solving the mysteries of our planet and the universe always involves very high computing c... |
29 September 2010
10:07 GMT |
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Oracle has announced that it has made a major move on the server market, namely the release of a server processor that has a full 16 cores which has already been used in the creation of a whole new range of servers at least twice as powerful as their predecessors.Apparently, Advanced Micro Devices isn't the onl... |
23 September 2010
08:18 GMT |
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The SPARC Enterprise M3000 server is a single-socket, mission-critical, entry-level server running a quad-core SPARC64 VII processor. The line it is part of also includes the M4000, M5000, M8000 and M9000. The new server will better help customers consolidate multiple entry-level servers into a compact 2U chassis, sa... |
12 January 2010
10:52 GMT |
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After NEC and Hitachi renounced the Project Keisoku contract back in May, a contract which implied that they would put together a hybrid scalar and vector supercomputer (a combination of Sparc processors and a variant of the SX engine from NEC), the Rikagaku Kankyusho research laboratory eventually decided to come up... |
28 November 2009
03:49 GMT |
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It seems that the optimal performance, reliability and virtualization offered by Fujitsu's SPARC servers are not the highest services that the leading provider of IT-based business solutions wants to offer. In order to improve access and data-transfer rates, as well as the reliability and serviceability, Fujitsu... |
9 November 2009
07:46 GMT |
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Oracle is facing three more months of scrutiny from European regulators over its intent to buy software and hardware manufacturer Sun Micrsystems. But, while the approval for the deal lingers, Sun hardware sales tank as customers are unsure what Oracle has planned for the division, with many fearing it will be sold o... |
11 September 2009
05:37 GMT |
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Santa Clara, California-based Sun Microsystems has announced today the expansion of its Open Network System architecture with the availability of the new 1.6GHz processors for its chip multi-threaded (CMT) Sun SPARC Enterprise systems, running the Solaris Operating System (OS). In addition, the company has also annou... |
21 July 2009
11:06 GMT |
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Software bugs and computer viruses were hackers' favorite means of taking over your computer. However, things could get a lot worse with the advent of a new threat, that aims directly at computers' hardware components. A group of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign managed to hack ... |
16 April 2008
03:17 GMT |
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Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu have jointly announced the availability of a new family of SPARC servers that are alleged to be able to process 128 simultaneous threads. More than that, the two companies announced important improvements in energy-consumption and space efficiency.The newly-introduced offering is comprise... |
11 April 2008
04:06 GMT |
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Server manufacturer Sun Microsystems signed an educational, three-year partnership with the Chinese Ministry of Education. The new agreement aims at improving the quality of education in chip design using Sun's technology included in the Sparc processors. The agreement stipulates that at least 100 professors wil... |
27 February 2008
03:02 GMT |
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The ongoing International Solid State Circuits Conference unveiled some extremely juicy details about Intel's products and roadmap, and I'm sure that the party is far from being over. However, Intel may be an important guest, but let's not underestimate the other participants. Sun, for example is less ... |
5 February 2008
05:48 GMT |
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The business partnership between IBM and Sun Microsystems could be a lifesaver for the Solaris developing company that has just currently recovered from a long string of bad years. The partnership is all about running the Solaris operating system that is developed by Sun on top of x86 compatible hardware and not on t... |
20 August 2007
04:29 GMT |
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Apart form being the major Java language developer and maintainer, Sun Microsystems has a stake in computer hardware as well. Their computer architecture is not x86 compatible as it is designed to use the SPARC and UltraSPARC chips. The latest supercomputers from Sun, named generically Niagara and Rock are very impre... |
28 July 2007
04:31 GMT |
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In the server business market, Sparc processors have been around since the dawn of ages, but there have always been other competitors that took away from the processors' pride, there was IBM's Power PCs, Intel's Xeon and AMD's Opteron processors that put out a good fight, just enough for people to... |
17 April 2007
12:02 GMT |
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