After a number of rumours last week surrounding Microsoft's and Sony's chosen hardware for their next-generation game consoles, a new report from Eurogamer's Digital Foundry states that both machines will contain AMD Jaguar processors. ...
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According to the related information, the preliminary accounting results of GDP in 2012 are as follows: Preliminary Accounting Results of GDP in 2012 The Q/Q Growth Rate on GDP Annotations: Quarterly GDP Accounting ...
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Hardware manufacturers met in Silicon Valley last week to continue drafting new open standards for data centres and servers with components that can be put together like Lego. The Facebook-sponsored Open Compute Project summit in Santa ...
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Facebook has proposed a new model for designing servers that it says will give businesses more choice in selecting components and a smarter way to upgrade systems when needs change, though it remains to be seen how widely its method will be ...
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Intel is taking the first steps to implement thin fiber optics that will use lasers and light as a faster way to move data inside computers, replacing the older and slower electrical wiring technology found in most computers today. ...
Facebook's Open Compute Project is being expanded to incorporate ARM processors, providing new options for companies shopping for low-cost hardware to build out cloud computing environments. Chip vendors from both the ARM and x86 sides of ...
Dell is trying to bring the ARM and x86 processors closer by supporting a new systems management technology, a step toward making both the CPU technologies interoperable, the company said on Wednesday. Dell will back the Open Compute ...
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ARM has had a boost from Facebook by being added to Facebook's Open Compute Project.This means that Facebook and other server customers will buy servers from companies which use both x86 processors and ARM processors. The Open Compute ...
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Fusion-io has taken the flash storage cards it's been making for its biggest customers and turned them into products that almost any company can buy. The new product, called Fusion ioScale, is based on the same design that Fusion-io makes ...
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Data network managers are realising they need to find smarter ways to improve performance,but the addition of more hardware such as servers,switches and processor cores is unsustainable,writes Troy Bailey,director of marketing,LSI The ...
Less than a month after a 12-hour-plus outage on Christmas Eve, Amazon Web Service's Elastic Block Storage (EBS) service in its US-East availability zone experienced elevated error rates for about 45 minutes yesterday. On January 9 at ...
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For high performance computing(HPC)cluster Bull Information Systems has signed what it calls a strategic alliance deal,valued at around 800,000 pound,with the University of Liverpool. Under the terms of the deal,which incorporates a ...
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Google is looking to lure 90 per cent of all Microsoft Office users to its Google Docs offering. In an interview with AllThingsD, Google vice president and head of enterprise, Amit Singh (pictured), said that Google will step up its ...
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IDG News Service-Colt's new data-center architecture is designed to allow operators more flexibility in managing power and cooling,without having to do extensive remodelling,the company said Monday. The architecture,called Ftec,should be ...
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IDG News Service - Dell has built a prototype server based on a 64-bit ARM processor from Applied Micro Circuits, which showed the system at a conference in Silicon Valley on Thursday. Dell has already said it was testing servers based on ...
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