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  • What's on the cards at EMC's casino royale next week?

    EMC World is not enough - time to live and let Flash die

    What news will be revealed to the 13,000 people attending EMC World in Las Vegas next Monday?…

  • HP pumps cash into EVA range capacity boost

    May refresh time unaffected by 3PAR buy

    It's May and an time for HP to refresh its evergreen EVA storage line. HP said it would keep investing in the EVA when it bought 3PAR and has kept its promise, with two new models being announced, with larger drive support and better management SW.…

  • Ethernet sales slump punches Brocade in the wallet

    Business not so good

    Ethernet sales slumped a bit and caused Brocade's second 2012 quarter results to stumble.…

  • Inside Nvidia's GK110 monster GPU

    Fermi, Tesla, and Maxwell would all want one

    At the tail end of the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose this week, graphics chip juggernaut and compute wannabe Nvidia divulged the salient characteristics of the high-end "Kepler2" GK110 GPU chips that are going to be the foundation of the two largest supercomputers in the world and that are no doubt going to make their way into plenty of workstations and clusters in the next several years.…

  • Scotland considers dishing out more iPads to schoolkids

    Maybe, if it's 'promoting new teaching behaviours' elsewhere

    The Scottish government has announced plans to "explore" the option of rolling out more mobile devices to education institutions in the country.…

  • Hybrid computing just like FLESH-EATING bacteria

    A scholarly comparison

    HPC blog  Hybrid computing (using CPUs plus GPUs to accelerate processing speed/throughput) and necrotizing faciitis (a flesh-eating bacterial* infection) have more in common than is typically thought. Both exhibit high growth rates, and both are incredibly difficult to stop once they get started.…

  • Dell forges GPU-enriched virty rack workstation

    Quadro graphics and Tesla compute tag team

    Like everyone else on the planet, you want a rocketsled to do your work. The faster, the better. But if Dell has its way, it may not be on top of or underneath your desk, but sitting in a rack in a data center. And it may not be a rocketsled as much as a rocketbus, with multiple people using it at the same time.…

  • Seagate, WD need to get a firm grip on solid disks

    Pro-tip: They should buy OCZ and STEC

    Blocks and Files  STEC is touting its great CellCare flash endurance, and it is great, reinforcing a view that it and OCZ make natural flash market buy-in points for Seagate and Western Digital.…

  • You can feed 800 VMs off 1 of our boxes, startup brags

    Tintri wraps NetApp up in white paper

    Apparently, just adding a tincture of Tintri to your virtualised server-storage array pathway gets those VMs running like super-charged rockets. The firm says a European customer is running 800 virtual machines off one Tintri box, leaving a NetApp array chastened in the background.…

  • Mutant number-crunchers win cluster popularity contest

    CUDA you dig it? Yes, you can

    HPC blog  Hybrid computing has come a very long way in a relatively short period of time. My first exposure to hybrids came at SC08 in the lovely city of Austin, Texas. Earlier that year, the Roadrunner system at Los Alamos National Lab had achieved two milestones: 1) It was the first system to break through the petabyte barrier; and 2) It was the first high-profile hybrid system.…

  • SGI skips future Xeon E7s, lobs E5-4600s into UV2 supers

    Adds Xeon E5s, Tesla K10 GPU coprocessors to rackable boxes

    Supercomputer and cluster maker Silicon Graphics has fallen hard for Intel's new "Sandy Bridge-EP" Xeon E5-4600 processors for four-socket servers.…

  • Finally a real use for NFC: Heart monitor in a credit card

    Pay-by-bonk becomes bleeding-edge tech

    Vid  We've seen heart monitors built into mobile phones and puck-sized Bluetooth kit, but now iMPak Health has got one down to the size of a credit card and used wireless technology to transfer the data.…

  • Nvidia drops veil on game-changing might of VGX

    VDI'ing Your BYODs

    HPC blog  What’s a “holy crap” moment? For me, it’s when I see or hear (or do) something that has far-reaching and previously unforeseen consequences. I’ve had at least two of these moments (so far) at the GTC 2012 conference. The first was when Jen-Hsun Huang, in his keynote presentation, tossed up a slide about Kepler and this new thing they’re calling VGX.…

  • Steve Jobs' death clears way for rumoured 4in 'iPhone 5' screen

    Apple places order for large display, claim sources

    The next Apple iPhone will have an enlarged 4-inch screen, according to well-placed anonymous sources.…

  • HP frogmarches new Xeon, Opteron chips into ProLiants

    Wants world+dog to know that it's also using E5-2400 two-socketeers

    In the wake of Intel's launch of the entry Xeon E5-2400 processors for two-socket servers earlier this week, X86 server juggernaut Hewlett-Packard wants to keep its name in the mind of customers who might be shopping for systems from rivals Dell, IBM or Fujitsu.…

  • Crooks sell skint fanbois potatoes instead of iPhones

    'I wanted an Apple, not a vegetable'

    Greater Manchester police are appealing for help after a number of people who thought they were laying hands on a shiny new iPhone ended up with a sack of spuds instead.…

  • Boffins smash 3Gbps speed barrier with 542GHz T-Rays

    Sky's the limit in terahertz territory

    Japanese geniuses have maintained a 3Gbit/s radio link at 542GHz, opening up more of the electromagnetic spectrum to the voracious appetite of wireless data.…

  • Asia leads global BYOD race

    IT managers jump on the bandwagon

    Asian IT professionals are racing ahead of their global rivals when it comes to implementing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies in their organisations, according to new research from BT.…

  • Nvidia shows off superjuiced Kepler GPU

    From workhouse to racehorse

    HPC blog  There were quite a few surprises in today’s GTC12 keynote by NVIDIA CEO and co-founder Jen-Hsun Huang.…

  • Speaking in Tech: The worst government IT deal of ALL TIME

    The one about the oversized Cisco routers

    Podcast  It's the eighth episode of our enterprise tech podcast – and it's a special one. The podcast is split up into two parts: in the first part, your hosts interview a journalist investigating the State of West Virginia's absurd purchase of drastically oversized Cisco routers – it's an incredible story you have to hear to believe.…

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