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AMD buys SeaMicro and enters server hardware business

AMD announced yesterday it is buying low-power server vendor SeaMicro, a move that puts AMD in the systems business and disrupts Intel by acquiring one of its close partners.
AMD replaces spinning drives with WhipTail flash storage

AMD?s System Optimisation Engineering Department has today announced plans to replace 480 of the 15K spinning drives in its datacentres with WhipTail solid-state storage arrays, in a bid to eliminate slow response times associated with traditional storage arrays.
Japan K supercomputer cracks 10 petaflop performance barrier

Japan's K Computer has retained its pole position on the Top500 list of fastest supercomputers and become the first machine on the list to achieve performance of more than 10 petaflops.
Cray building £62.3 million supercomputer for US

Cray was awarded a £62.3 million ($97 million) contract to build a supercomputer that could potentially deliver up to 20 petaflops of peak performance, or 20 quadrillion floating operations per second, to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Cray XK6 supercomputer to use Nvidia GPU processors

The Cray Xk6 system will be the first to use Nvidia GPUs as co-processors.
Dell introduces 96 core server

Dell on Monday introduced a server that can accommodate up to 96 CPU cores, a big boost in the computational power provided by its hardware.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 launches with improved scalability

Red Hat releases version 6 of its enterpise Linux distribution, featuring improvements in performance and network management
Pillar updates Axiom storage array

Pillar Data Systems today announced a new version of its Axiom 600 modular storage array that offers more processing power, storage capacity and available ports.
Sun claims record-breaking storage array

Sun claims to have introduced the fastest storage array on the planet
Supercomputers battle for number crunching crown

A Cray supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has regained the title of the world's most powerful supercomputer, overtaking the installation that was ranked at the top in June, while China entered the Top 10 with a hybrid Intel-AMD system.

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Supercomputing in the cloud ready for take off

Some companies are slashing costs and improving production by using on-demand high-performance computing services.
Calculate this ? up close to the UK?s newest supercomputer

The UK's most powerful supercomputer is called HECToR, and it stands at number 17 in the world rankings. But what's it for?
Bypass and disrupt

Sun's disk storage strategy is unexpected, original and has enthusiastic adherents, but not from Sun's storage competitors who face having their product value destroyed - if Sun has got it right.
Datacentres face strangulation

Datacentres face strangulation by rising power and cooling costs, and energy supply and space limitations. The green outsourcing route may be a way out of this trap.
Data warehousing utopia

Dataupia has a new data warehousing appliance which scales by matching processing and storage power on a blade basis
Agámi: Storing up for the future

Paul Speciale, agámi's product management VP, places the agámi network-attached storage box against those of BlueArc, Isilon, Acopia, NetApp, EMC and Sun in this two-part interview.
Sun thumps Thumper drum

Sun's analyst day shows a bullish company bullish on storage, particularly the X4500 and Honeycomb boxes
IT on a chip

Embedded functions in micro-processors are helping do things from improving security to virtualising servers
From chrysalis to butterfly

Sun's own fixed reference data, content-addressed storage device.
Q&A: Dell's European server head speaks out for AMD

We spoke to Dell's European server chief Andy Rhodes to find out more about the company's thinking about AMD and the future of the data centre

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