The sales pitch for servers in the cloud has always leaned on the word"commodity."You push a button,and voilA,a root password is yours within minutes.The machines in the cloud may not be exactly what you would order if you were filling out ...
Tags: Joyent Cloud, commodity cloud provider, SmartOS, virtualization tool
IDG News Service-Google released a Chrome browser update with a video decoding enhancement that the company claims will help users save battery life. The feature,available for Chrome on Windows,cuts power consumption by executing video ...
Tags: Google, Chrome browser, video decoding, Battery-Saving
Computerworld-Intel researchers are working on a 48-core processor for smartphones and tablets,but it could be five to 10 years before it hits the market. "If we're going to have this technology in five to 10 years,we could finally do ...
Tags: Intel, Chip, Smartphones, Tablets
IDG News Service-The U.S.Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Monday completed the deployment of a 20-petaflop supercomputer called Titan,which the lab hopes will give the U.S.an edge over China and Japan in the race to ...
Tags: U.S.supercomputing, 20-petaflop Titan, U.S.DOE, ORNL
Kalray has completed the design of a three billion transistor processor array and it used a Mentor Graphics functional verification, physical design and verification, and design-for-test flow. The France-based fabless semiconductor ...
Tags: Transistor, transistor processor array, semiconductor, MPPA-256 processor
Holland-based LeaseWeb has opted for storage software from Nexenta on commodity hardware as a platform for its cloud computing platform. The company chose Nexenta over HP, IBM, NetApp and open source storage products for the project, which ...
Tags: LeaseWeb, storage software, Nexenta, cloud computing platform
IDG News Service-Security researcher Zoltan Balazs has developed a remote-controlled piece of malware that functions as a browser extension and is capable of modifying Web pages,downloading and executing files,hijacking accounts,bypassing ...
Tags: malware, browser extension, remote-controlled, Balazs
First came the heavy adoption of Apple's mobile platform by consumers whose heavy use of the devices for business tasks forced the IT operations at their companies to support them. Android was the next mobile platform pushed onto IT and ...
Tags: Apple, mobile platform, IT operations, Android, Gartner, tech trends
Unlike most movie sequels,the HP ProLiant DL380 gets better with each generation.The DL dynasty just hit generation 8,and true to form,the HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 does a fine job of incorporating all the latest server hardware,features,and ...
Intel on Thursday showed off technologies for the future that are designed to improve the computing experience by extending the battery life of PCs, making devices smaller and enabling always-on communications. In a keynote with the theme ...
Tags: Intel, US, computer technology, Processors
IDG News Service-Applied Micro lifted the curtain on its 64-bit ARM-based server platform at the Hot Chips conference this week and ignited a debate about whether ARM is the right architecture for the data center. Pat Gelsinger,a former ...
Tags: 64-bit ARM, server chip, cloud-computing, integration
MIPS Technologies hopes to challenge ARM in the market for high-end tablets and smartphones with an upcoming processor design it presented at the Hot Chips conference in Silicon Valley on Tuesday. MIPS is known for chips used in home ...
Tags: Processors, MIPS, ARM, Tablet
Computerworld-When the Government Employees Health Association(GEHA)overhauled its data center to build a fabric infrastructure,the process was"really straightforward,"unlike that of many IT projects,says Brenden Bryan,senior manager of ...
Tags: Data center, GEHA, Fibre Channel, Ethernet switches
Many industrial, medical, marine, transport and aerospace systems with graphical user interfaces (GUIs) require display modules that are rugged, robust and capable of consistent, reliable operation, writes David Potts is divisional ...
Tags: LED Display
As system complexity increases no longer is simple stimulus and response testing enough,test systems need to simulate the world around a device and testing it under realistic operating conditions and for this FPGA-based instruments come ...
Tags: microprocessor, FPGA, CPU