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Linus Torvalds shortlisted for 2012 Millennium Technology Prize

Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds has been shortlisted by the Technology Academy Finland for its 2012 Millennium Technology Prize, worth over ?1 million (£820,000).
Hard-drive shortage hits servers in Q4, Gartner says

The growth in worldwide server shipments was slower than expected during the fourth quarter due to a shortage in the supply of hard drives, and the trend will continue into the first quarter this year, Gartner said in a study released on Thursday.
Geeks rejoice as BBC Micro celebrates 30 year anniversary

Thirty years ago this week the BBC offered for sale its first Micro, a home computer that went on to change the history of computing in the UK and far beyond.
China planning further HPC development with homegrown chips

China is planning more supercomputers with homegrown chips in order to meet government demands, according to a Chinese researcher involved in the country's HPC programme.
Adapteva aims 64-core chip at tablets, smartphones

Smartphones and tablets are demanding more computing power, and chip company Adapteva hopes to bring server-type performance to the devices with a chip it is announcing on Monday.
SPEC tool to improve server efficiency ratings

SPEC, the standards body for performance benchmarks, has developed a toolkit to help more accurately measure the energy efficiency of servers.
HP backs GPU computing for high performance

Graphics processors have always been popular in workstations, but are increasingly handling a larger computational load and bringing supercomputer-like capabilities to complex scientific and math applications, according to a HP executive.
Dell, HP and IBM offer servers with Intel Xeon E7 chips

Top manufacturers including Dell, HP, IBM and Cray have announced new high-end servers sporting Intel's 10-core Xeon E7 series of chips, which were announced on Tuesday.
Itanium chips reach ten year anniversary

The 64-bit Itanium chip, introduced as a challenger to the RISC systems that dominated enterprise shops at the time, hits the 10-year-mark next month.
HTC Surround Windows mobile is a recycled Nexus One

In the iFixit Teardown, the HTC Surround (a device based on Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system) was found to contain hardware similar to the Android-based Nexus One.

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Intel Data Centre CTO: Moore's Law is far from over

Moore's Law will continue to be a viable business proposition for many years to come, because when it is no longer possible to scale in two dimensions, chip manufacturers will simply grow in the third dimension, according to Steve Pawlowski, CTO of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group.
Top Windows 8 features IT admins should be aware of

Upgrades, system migration, support headaches; IT folks are probably dreading the next major Windows roll-out. Yet Windows 8, which is scheduled to move to the beta stage in late February and will likely launch in the autumn, does offer several compelling new features for both IT and end users.
Intel Itanium at a crossroads

Intel reaffirmed its commitment to developing the Itanium processor, but also said it wants to grab market share with Xeon server chips in high-performance computing, where Itanium also plays.
How virtual servers make the cloud more elastic

Q&A: The founder of ScaleMP explains the differences between scaling out and scaling up with virtualisation in the cloud.
Can HP shake up the high-end server business?

The mid- to high-end Unix server market is due for a bit of a shake-up with a new HP server due -- but will it change anything?
Q&A: Power chip inventor speaks out

We recently travelled to Rochester and spoke to Frank Soltis, chief scientist at IBM's iSeries server division. He spoke to us about the Power chip's birth, its design, and the future.
Is Intel victorious?

As far back as the late 1980s, chip pundits have predicted the demise of x86. But today, x86 rules the desktop and server room, while the RISC challenge has faded. Is this the start of the x86's total domination?
Soul of a new standard server

Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim is in charge of its new Galaxy server products. He talks about Galaxy's design, Sun's server strategy, CPU architectures, virtualisation, and the future of SPARC.
Q&A: Stuart Cohen, CEO Open Software Development Labs

"I anticipate that as open source software grows, Microsoft will make its applications available in open source form", says open source boss.
HP's Ann Livermore on life after Carly

Ann Livermore, executive VP of HP's Technology Solutions Group speaks about life at the company after Carly Fiorina.

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