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NextStream 2U Blade Server Is Now Compatible with Nvidia Tesla C-Class GPUs

NextComputing, a manufacturer of small form-factor and dense computing servers and workstations, has just announced that its NextStream blade server can now be configured with Nvidia Tesla C-class GPU computing processors, including the recently launched Tesla C2075.The NextStream is a 2U rackmountable unit optimized...

21 October 2011
10:24 GMT

IBM Forced to Pay $3 Million to Ex-Staffer (Papermaster-Apple Case)

On Friday, last week, a federal judge ordered IBM to provide a $3 million bond by the end of the day to keep the case going, the company and Mark Papermaster, ex blade server expert at IBM. Mark Papermaster was recently hired by Apple as SVP of Devices Hardware Engineering. For his decision to move to Apple IBM sued...

17 November 2008
05:45 GMT

Papermaster Fights for His Role at Apple, Sues Back

26-year old IBM veteran Mark Papermaster filed a countersuit last week, days after U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth Karas ordered the blade server guru to "immediately cease his employment with Apple." As noted in previous court filings, Papermaster argued that Apple and IBM were not really rivals, a Computerworld r...

17 November 2008
04:15 GMT

Mark Papermaster Becomes SVP at Apple

Apple has made official that ex-IBM chip design expert, Mark Papermaster has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering. Softpedia recently reported that IBM was suing Papermaster for defecting and running off to Apple, as the "blade server guru" possessed highly-confidential IBM trad...

4 November 2008
10:26 GMT

IBM Sues Ex Employee for Fleeing to Apple

Apple has contracted an ex-IBM chip design expert which should begin working full time for Apple if only IBM let him. Yes, apparently the multinational computer technology and consulting corporation based in Armonk, New York, is suing its former executive for switching teams with the intention of divulging trade secr...

31 October 2008
09:24 GMT

NEC to Launch Xeon Server for U.S. This Month

NEC intends to gradually become more visible on the U.S. market, and has consequently introduced a high-end enterprise Xeon server this month, following a period of six to eight months during which the company has been constantly releasing products for the U.S. The new low-power Intel-based rack-mount server and a fo...

3 September 2008
05:16 GMT

HP Gets Two CPUs on a Siamese-Twin Server Blade

Hewlett-Packard has designed and rolled-out a siamese-twin CPU server blade intended to provide the necessary computing power to those huge data centers which lack the space to spread out.HP's new ProLiant BL2x220c G5 has been set up as the first blade that features two independent servers thrown together inside...

28 May 2008
09:35 GMT

IBM Updates Its Blade Server Lineup with PlayStation 3 Chips

IBM has just introduced a new blade server offering for high-performance computing, powered by Cell processors. The new offering is especially targeted at financial services, digital media creation, and medical imaging, as the updated Cell processor comes with better support for floating point operations.According to...

14 May 2008
05:12 GMT

HP to Expand its Unix-Based Blade Server Offer: the HP Integrity BL870c is Here!

Server builder HP has just released its first mid-level Unix-based blade server, the HP Integrity BL870c, powered by a custom-made version of the Itanium processor to power the four-socket server. Estimated at a retail price of $8,000, the blade server will allow the companies to migrate from the old Unix-based techn...

13 February 2008
09:28 GMT

HP to Unveil Enterprise-Class Disk Arrays

Hewlett Pachard has just announced the availability of a new family of entry-level disk arrays with enterprise-class features. The HP StorageWorks 2000 Modular Smart Array (MSA2000) line of products is comprised of low-cost Fibre Channel and iSCSI disk arrays designed to work especially in virtualized server environm...

6 February 2008
09:02 GMT

Dell, Sun to Quarrel over Blade Servers

PC and server vendor Dell last week announced the availability of a new blade chassis and server. It seems that each time a new server kicks in, the allegedly perfect equilibrium between the major server players (HP, IBM, Dell and Sun) snaps and all hell breaks lose.This is somewhat normal, as the server business is ...

29 January 2008
05:08 GMT

Lenovo to Acquire Server Technology License From IBM

IBM has announced that the company has reached a licensing agreement with PC vendor Lenovo regarding the company's server technology. According to the companies' statements, Lenovo is planning to build single-CPU and dual CPU servers based on IBM's System X server technology. The agreement stipulates t...

24 January 2008
11:14 GMT

IBM: The Q4 Revenue Has Exceeded all Expectations

Good news from IBM as the preliminary results for the fourth quarter of 2007 just kicked in. According to the company's officials, fourth-quarter revenue stood at $28.9 billion, an increase of 10 percent over the same period in 2006, and have surpassed any expectations. The result is partly due to an aggressive ...

14 January 2008
10:56 GMT

Intel to Unveil Two Low-Cost Clear Bay Server Platforms

Intel has announced its new white-box blade server called the Clear Bay. The new server architecture is based on standardized components, instead of specialized parts, a habit that has become a common practice in the server business. The Clear Bay server is based on the Modular Server specification set announced last...

12 January 2008
04:07 GMT

HP Launches ''Shorty'' Server System

Hewlett-Packard announced the launch of a new blade server system that according to claims from the manufacturing company, will allow small and medium sized companies to easily setup and configure a data center inside a box. As the medium companies are becoming more and more interested in high performance server syst...

14 September 2007
10:57 GMT

Supermicro Goes For Intel Based Servers

Super Micro Computer announced the official launch of a new line of server systems based on Intel quad core processors. The new family of products includes the new 8015C-T, 8025C-3R and 8045C-3R server models from the SuperServer line and they feature an increased memory footprint, better energy efficiency, availabil...

7 September 2007
09:31 GMT

IBM Boosts Blade Servers' Performance

The blade server design is one of the most popular and successful designs around the server market as it allows a greater degree of flexibility than other models and comes with several practical advantages like decreased price, ease of expandability and so on while maintaining a high performance.In order to maintain ...

31 August 2007
09:13 GMT

Intel and The Low-Cost Blade Servers

Intel is known in the computer hardware business as a company that doesn't let any opportunity slip away. So, as the blade servers are gaining more popularity on the small business market, Intel is paying close attention to the trend and even plans to develop and launch a new line of server products. Until now, ...

30 July 2007
08:38 GMT

HP Has the Best Supercomputers

It seems that whenever an IT giant such as HP cannot outperform one of its colleagues in terms of pure performance, it thinks of a way of compensating through quantity. Since you all know the fact that IBM rules when it comes to supercomputing, you will probably be surprised to find out that it is HP which actually p...

28 June 2007
05:31 GMT


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