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Google, IBM promote 'cloud' computing at universities Google and IBM have teamed up to offer a curriculum and support for software development on large-scale distributed computing systems with six universities signing up so far. Researchers build 'desktop supercomputer' What if your desktop computer could run 100 times faster than a PC and were simple enough for a high school student to program? September 10, 7:22 a.m. PDT Sourcefire acquires ClamAV open-source anti-malware project Network security specialist Sourcefire announced Friday that it has acquired ClamAV, an open-source gateway anti-malware project whose technologies are used in the products of a number of other vendors.  August 17, 8:58 a.m. PDT IBM, HP share bragging rights on supercomputer list IBM still operates the fastest supercomputer in the industry, but rival Hewlett-Packard has more of them in operation, according to a closely watched global survey released Wednesday. June 27, 4:18 a.m. PDT Sun needs AMD chips to launch new supercomputer As Sun Microsystems prepares to demonstrate a new high-performance computer (HPC) Tuesday at a technology conference in Germany, it hopes that quad-core processors from Advanced Micro Devices that will power the computer arrive on time to deliver one of the machines to its first customer. June 26, 4:39 a.m. PDT Azul turbocharges 'computing appliance' Azul Systems Inc. is doubling the capacity of its "computing appliance," a device that uses multiple multicore processors and is a departure from the typical server-based approach to large scale computing. June 14, 4:14 a.m. PDT IBM targets health care market with grid computing Hospitals have unique and challenging storage needs, as they are required to store every X-ray and medical record they create, and IBM is reaching out to that market with a system being unveiled Wednesday at a health care industry event. May 16, 4:39 a.m. PDT More stupider user tricks: IT horror stories redux When it comes to royally derailing IT, nothing trumps the stupidity of those whom IT is meant to serve. And though the verdict’s still out as to whether humanity is devolving toward Idiocracy, it’s certain that folks are continually finding innovative ways to screw up IT’s operations. May 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sun's grid computing service goes global Sun Microsystems is expanding its Network.com utility computing service from the United States to 23 countries in Europe and Asia, the company said Thursday. May 3, 2:02 p.m. PDT NASA backs quantum computing claim The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration confirmed Thursday that it built a special chip used in a disputed demonstration of quantum computing in February. March 9, 11:45 a.m. PST IBM aims to make computing clusters easier It may be too early to talk plug-and-play but IBM believes it can help businesses of all sizes easily cluster their servers to handle intensive computing workloads. February 28, 6:47 a.m. PST Tech heavyweights tackle datacenter power shortage The IT industry's thirst for energy is growing exponentially, far outpacing the supply of reliable, clean power. Now a group of leading IT firms has banded together to try to head off an impending energy crisis in the datacenter. February 26, 7:00 a.m. PST IBM veteran becomes first woman to win the Turing Award The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the A.M. Turing Award to Frances Allen, a computer scientist at IBM and the first woman to receive the prestigious prize. February 21, 4:15 a.m. PST Talking R&D with HP's CTO As the IT industry changes to keep pace with convergence and the rise of emerging markets, vendors like Hewlett-Packard Co. have to stay one step ahead of the curve to remain competitive. At HP, the job of directing that effort falls to Shane Robison, the company's executive vice president and chief strategy and technology officer, who is responsible for overseeing the company's annual US$3.5 billion research and development (R&D) budget. December 20, 4:51 a.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Networking After most of the vendors declined our invitation to a WAN shootout last year, we settled for a series of standalone reviews of WAN accelerators this year. As usual, Riverbed’s Steelhead shined -- so did products from Silver Peak, Blue Coat, and Cisco Systems, though they still swam in Steelhead’s wake. Perhaps competition will be stiff enough for a comparative test in 2007. Stay tuned. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST Azul increases the horsepower of server appliances Azul Systems Inc., a maker of appliances that enhance the performance of servers running Java software applications, is boosting the performance further with new models introduced Monday. December 4, 2:03 p.m. PST Will a 'conscious' machine ever be built? The question of whether machines will be capable of human intelligence is ultimately a matter for philosophers to take up and not something that scientists can answer, an inventor and a computer scientist agreed during a debate Thursday night at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. December 1, 7:54 a.m. PST Cisco opens R&D center in west of Ireland Cisco Systems Inc. will open a research center in Ireland to develop unified communications products. November 22, 8:21 a.m. PST IBM, Cray win DARPA supercomputer contracts IBM and Cray have beat out Sun Microsystems to win sizable U.S government contracts to design a new generation supercomputer. November 22, 4:12 a.m. PST IBM holds lead on Top 500 Supercomputers List IBM Corp. has maintained its lead, and its bragging rights, over rivals in the number of supercomputer systems it operates throughout the world. November 13, 4:33 p.m. PST HP offers cluster computing on Windows Hewlett-Packard's cluster computing products can now run a Microsoft cluster operating system, which should be helpful to end-users familiar with the ubiquitous Windows operating system. November 3, 4:29 a.m. PST Group to study virtualization benchmarks A technology industry standards body is considering setting benchmarks for how virtualization should work in a computer network. October 31, 4:39 a.m. PST IDF Taiwan: Tyan shows off Quad-Core Xeon system Tyan Computer Corp. showed off one of the first hardware systems containing Quad-Core Xeon 5300 processors at the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei on Monday. October 16, 4:52 a.m. PDT Sun says OpenSparc is gaining traction Sun Microsystems says its new UltraSparc T1 microprocessor, nicknamed Niagara, is creating a big splash. October 2, 4:52 a.m. PDT IBM's first Cell computer goes on sale IBM has started selling the first computer based on its multicore Cell processor, targeting organizations that run compute-intensive tasks like medical imaging or oil exploration. September 13, 8:35 a.m. PDT Grids help eBay do big business A massive computing grid helps eBay make changes to its auction Web site on the fly while maintaining a 99.94 percent up time, said Paul Strong, a distinguished research scientist there. September 12, 8:52 a.m. PDT Open Grid Forum unveils its new mission, board The Open Grid Forum (OGF) standards body has officially opened for business, delivering on its commitment made back in June to detail its aims and organizational setup to coincide with the start of the GridWorld conference taking place this week in Washington, D.C. September 11, 8:36 a.m. PDT Cisco banking on collaboration tools Triple plays are rare in baseball. But Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers plans to do one better Wednesday by promising to pull off a "quadruple play" in the networking business: incorporating data, voice, video, and mobile capabilities across its product lines. September 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM will build new Department of Energy supercomputer The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) chose IBM to build a new supercomputer for its Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, IBM announced Wednesday. September 7, 4:22 a.m. PDT Update: US government lab offers grid computing toolkit A new open-source software toolkit is available Tuesday to improve remote online scientific collaboration via grid computing. August 22, 4:30 p.m. PDT IBM to supply machines for grid project IBM will supply high-performance Unix-based servers and software for a grid-computing project studying areas such as hurricane storm surges and human genome sequences, the company said Friday. August 11, 7:53 a.m. PDT MS eyes sub-$250,000 clusters in Asia Growing demand for inexpensive, high-performance servers is creating new opportunities for Microsoft Corp. in Asia, a company official said. July 12, 4:14 a.m. PDT Opteron gains ground on supercomputer list The Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers was released Wednesday, with IBM's BlueGene continuing to reign and Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD's) Opteron processor powering more systems on the list than last year. June 28, 7:32 a.m. PDT IBM, ClearSpeed team up on supercomputing IBM made a move to leap ahead of rival Hewlett-Packard in the high-performance computing market Tuesday, announcing a partnership with semiconductor maker ClearSpeed Technology. June 27, 1:30 p.m. PDT Grid standard groups unite to form Open Grid Forum Two former dueling grid groups Monday made good on their February promise to merge with the mission of speeding the adoption of grid technology worldwide. June 26, 1:13 p.m. PDT Microsoft steps in to VMware's virtualization arena I recently commented to a Microsoft technology manager, "Hey, we're thinking about doing a shootout-style lab test on something in virtualization." June 22, 3:00 a.m. PDT Stanford taps tech for earth sciences Stanford University Tuesday is opening the doors to a new research center that is tapping technology from Sun Microsystems Inc. to better understand earth sciences. June 20, 8:12 a.m. PDT NetApp targets storage for high-performance computing Network Appliance on Monday introduced a new operating system to power its storage for high-performance Linux computing clusters in large-scale computational systems. June 12, 7:25 a.m. PDT Microsoft set to ship Windows for HPC Microsoft has finished work on a version of Windows for high-performance computing (HPC), it announced Friday. June 9, 4:24 a.m. PDT Sun offers 100 free CPU hours to grid developers Sun Microsystems Inc. on Thursday rolled out several incentives to draw developers into creating applications for the Sun Grid, the company announced at the JavaOne Developer Conference in San Francisco. May 18, 10:12 a.m. PDT Clustering the Microsoft way I can't talk about the embargoed Longhorn meeting I had Tuesday, except to say that I got one Microsoft rep to say that Redmond doesn't think there'll be any more service packs after Longhorn sees daylight. But then he burst out laughing, so I'm not sure how reliable that is. May 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT Virtualization fever at LinuxWorld Expo The most prominent names in open source descend on Boston this week for the annual LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. Highlights of the show will include a new Mobile and Embedded conference track and a Grid Solution Showcase, but the hottest trend seems to be virtualization, with several new offerings set to debut throughout the week. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sun to light up public grid on Monday Sun Microsystems is set to light up on Monday its long-delayed public computing grid allowing users to book CPU (central processing unit) hours with a credit card through a Web-based portal, company officials said. March 15, 11:21 a.m. PST IBM's Cell processor shows its potential IBM Corp. is using a cluster of prototype blade servers built around its multicore Cell microprocessor to breathe life into a three-dimensional model of a beating human heart at the Cebit trade show in Hanover. March 13, 4:50 a.m. PST IBM pitches a supercomputing Fastball IBM on Thursday said it had developed technology to speed up the way large computer networks access and share information. March 9, 8:31 a.m. PST Germans unwrap Europe's fastest supercomputer The German Research Center Jülich unveiled Europe's most powerful supercomputer this week, an IBM Blue Gene system that will be used by European scientists to do environmental and particle physics research. March 8, 4:33 a.m. PST Sun blames US department concerns for grid delay Security concerns expressed by the U.S. Department of State have further delayed the rollout of Sun Microsystems 's computer grid, a Sun executive confirmed late last month. March 6, 1:53 p.m. PST SGI cuts two execs, about 250 jobs Silicon Graphics (SGI) will lay off about 250 employees, or 12 percent of its work force, in a restructuring aimed at cutting costs amid continuing operating losses. March 3, 12:29 p.m. PST Dueling grid groups agree to merge The Global Grid Forum and the Enterprise Grid Alliance have agreed to merge, combining two groups that have sometimes been at odds despite their similar goals to promote grid computing. February 14, 8:33 a.m. PST Cisco posts profit, revenue growth in Q2 Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday reported gains in both earnings and revenue for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2006, citing growing adoption of converged voice, video and data networks. February 7, 5:06 p.m. PST Cisco appoints ex-MCI chief Capellas to board Cisco Systems Inc. has appointed Michael Capellas, former president and chief executive officer of MCI Inc., to its board of directors, the computer networking company said Tuesday. February 1, 4:42 a.m. PST HP weighs in further on data center heat issues Hewlett-Packard Co. announced three products Monday designed to help enterprise users deal with power management difficulties. The products, due to ship Feb. 6, include a water-cooled heat exchanger unit which can be attached to the side of a server rack. January 30, 11:01 a.m. PST CES tech news and gossip -- from Google to Stevie Wonder Attending the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is like spending the week with 130,000 former college roommates. It's great on the first day, reliving old times and laughing about mutual acquaintances. But by the weekend, you start remembering all the times they stiffed you for beer, and the time they promised to get you a job at their company but gave it to the pretty girl down the hall. January 11, 11:15 a.m. PST A first look at Windows Compute Cluster Server It used to be that building a usable compute cluster took plenty of money, skills, and space in the datacenter. Although creating the actual applications that run on the cluster can still be difficult, nowadays building a Linux-based cluster is generally quite simple. Commercial and open source clustering packages abound with features, open protocols, and streamlined installs. No surprise, then, that Microsoft wants a piece of this potentially lucrative market. January 9, 3:00 a.m. PST High-performance computing: Supercharging the enterprise Merlin Securities, a new prime brokerage providing trading, financing, portfolio analysis, and reporting for multibillion-dollar hedge funds, needed a competitive edge. Its larger rivals, such as Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, and UBS, had the advantage of expensive mainframes that could consolidate and analyze millions of trades each day and return reports via batch processing the next morning that measured performance on a monthly basis. So Merlin outclassed its competitors by returning trade performance information in near real time with performance measured on a daily basis and performance attribution on multiple levels, including in comparison to other securities in a market sector, numerous benchmarks, and other traders in the firm. What’s more, it did it using an inexpensive compute cluster made up of four dual-processor Dell PowerEdge 2850 servers. January 9, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 technology in the crosshairs What would ahead of the curve be without some journalistically irresponsible predictions to kick off the New Year? It’s all part of my contract with you, the reader, which, if you read the fine print, also absolves me of any accountability. December 28, 3:00 a.m. PST Lucent to take $300 million charge on lawsuit ruling Lucent Technologies Inc. will take a US$300 million charge on its first quarter of 2006 financial statement after a judge ruled against the company in a bankruptcy case on Wednesday. December 22, 8:13 a.m. PST Juniper sues over message-board posts Juniper Networks Inc. is suing 10 unnamed defendants over comments posted to a networking news message board that Juniper charges are libelous. December 22, 4:27 a.m. PST Microsoft to double size of European research team Microsoft's investments in computer science research in Europe will increase over the next two years, with an expected doubling of its number of researchers. December 6, 3:58 a.m. PST Microsoft snags Cray's chief scientist The chief scientist of supercomputer manufacturer Cray is leaving to take a job at Microsoft. November 28, 4:00 a.m. PST Is it time to scrap your Big Iron? See correction at end of article November 17, 3:00 a.m. PST When mainframes make sense Not everyone sees the mainframe as a relic of the past. In 1996, motor manufacturer Baldor Electric, beguiled by promises of lower costs and the desire to move to the SAP platform for all its CRM and ERP transactions, left the mainframe in favor of a Windows environment. According to Mark Shackelford, Baldor's IS director, the company was very unhappy with the results. November 17, 3:00 a.m. PST Customers get chance to test Windows for clusters Microsoft Tuesday at the Supercomputing 2005 show in Seattle will unveil several milestones in its strategy to becoming a serious competitor in the high-performance computing market. November 15, 4:27 a.m. PST IBM holds on to Top500 supercomputer lead IBM retained its lead of the Top500 list of supercomputers with its BlueGene/L System installed at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories in Livermore, California. The system topped the twice-yearly list of the fastest computers in the world for the third consecutive time and is likely to remain No. 1 for some time since its size doubled earlier this year. November 14, 4:29 a.m. PST Monster computers now online at Lawrence Livermore Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is now home to two of the most powerful computers on the planet: the ASC Purple supercomputer, and the world's most powerful high performance machine, Blue Gene/L. Three years in development, the completed versions of the systems have come online over the past few months and will be dedicated Thursday in a ceremony at the nuclear research facility. October 25, 4:08 a.m. PDT IBM offers starter pack for grid computing IBM plans to unwrap a bundle of software, hardware and services called Grid and Grow at the LinuxWorld show in San Francisco on Monday. The company hopes the bundle will act as a starter pack for mid-size and large companies wanting to move into grid computing, according to an IBM executive. August 8, 4:23 a.m. PDT Lenovo leads effort to build 1,000 TFLOPS supercomputer China's Lenovo Group has begun work on a project to build a computer that is nearly 10 times more powerful than the world's fastest supercomputer, a company spokeswoman confirmed Thursday. July 28, 4:57 a.m. PDT Getting to the bottom of AMD v. Intel Pardon me if my writing's a little raspy. I learned yesterday that I'm the subparent of a beautiful baby antitrust lawsuit. I've been up all night looking at pictures. Oh, look! He's got my puns! One day old and this guy's already mean as a stepped-on snake, just like me and his dozens of parents. But right now he's my boy; I've got him to myself. Who's my little monopoly buster? Are you gonna bring choice back to commodity computing? Yes, you are. What? Gasp, his first words! "Tre-ble da-ma-ges." I need a moment. Look at the ads in the rest of the magazine for a second. July 6, 5:00 a.m. PDT Level 5 works to dissolve server bottlenecks Level 5 networks this month begins shipping EtherFabric, an Ethernet-based high-performance interconnect aimed at enterprise datacenters and HPC (high performance compute) clusters. EtherFabric promises to improve CPU efficiency, reduce latency, and boost throughput between servers in transaction-oriented or compute-intensive environments while maintaining backward compatibility with existing Ethernet infrastructure. June 20, 5:00 a.m. PDT IBM beefs up clustering options Hoping to strengthen its position in the clustering market, IBM on Wednesday rolled out a new version of its eServer Cluster 1350 powered by AMD's dual-core Opteron chip. Company officials contend the offering will give users access to a broader range of higher-end applications. June 15, 9:10 a.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25: Laurence Grant When you work for a fast-growing phone company, your customers expect high availability, stability, and performance from your back-end IT systems. During the past couple of years, Laurence Grant has directed a massive upgrade of Talk America’s IT infrastructure, successfully betting on new technologies to support future growth. The company’s old Informix database system couldn’t scale to handle 3 billion call records each year, so Grant talked his superiors into migrating to a grid-based Oracle 10g system instead. Today that grid handles 60TB of data and offers such performance-intensive features as same-day online posting of call records. Through it all, Grant takes pride in being a hands-on type. “I like to roll up my sleeves and get involved,” he says. “To sit down at the keyboard and actually see the technology working firsthand.” April 11, 5:00 a.m. PDT IBM puts Blue Gene on tap IBM is making its Blue Gene supercomputer, ranked the fastest in the world, available on demand so that high-performance computing customers can get the processing power they need when they need it without having to worry about high upfront costs or management headaches. March 11, 7:49 a.m. PST World's most powerful computer is doubled in size Blue Gene/L, already ranked as the fastest supercomputer on the planet, has been doubled in size, according to researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. March 10, 4:47 a.m. PST SGI to sell pre-configured Altix 350 clusters Silicon Graphics (SGI) on Monday plans to unveil a new product line designed to make it easier for users with medium-sized computing needs to set up clusters of the Mountain View, California, company's Altix 350 servers. January 26, 3:01 p.m. PST IBM targets humanitarian projects with world grid Hoping to harness a few million of the personal computers are not already running the SETI@home screen saver, IBM and United Devices on Tuesday launched a new World Community Grid project designed to act as a clearing house for humanitarian computing projects. November 17, 4:52 a.m. PST Update: HP server group sees profit in Q4 HP's net earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter, which included $136 million in after-tax adjustments, were $1.2 billion, or $0.41 per share. This exceeded analyst expectations of $0.37 per share compiled by Thomson First Call. HP's total revenues were also slightly ahead of Thomson's estimates, which had been $21.1 billion, according to a survey of 18 financial analysts. November 16, 5:05 p.m. PST Microsoft to skip Itanium with supercomputing Windows Microsoft Corp. will support only x86 processors with 64-bit extensions when it releases a special version of Windows Server for high performance computing (HPC) next year, leaving support for Intel Corp.'s Itanium 2 for a later, undefined date. November 9, 4:45 a.m. PST IBM dominates list of top supercomputers With performance almost double that of the Earth Simulator, in Yokohama, Japan, IBM Corp.'s Blue Gene/L on Monday was officially ranked first on the Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. IBM built four of the top ten machines on the biannual list, which was set to be announced Monday evening at the SC2004 conference in Pittsburgh. November 8, 3:41 p.m. PST Product Previews Foundry Pours Out 10GbE Product Line Foundry Networks on Monday will unveil four new 10Gigabit Ethernet products. The BigIron MG8 with 8X10G module is designed for high-availability, low-latency, converged applications and high-density, bandwidth-intensive, enterprise datacenters. EdgeIron 8X10G 10GbE L2 Switch has eight wire-speed 10GbE ports in a 1RU format, designed for cluster and high-performance computing. Foundry is also releasing the EdgeIron 24GS/48GS Stackable, designed for high-density wiring closets and small and medium backbones. The company will also release its 10GbE Xenpak Optics, which allows for 10GbE connectivity for legacy, multimode fiber installations. BigIron MG8 pricing starts at $50,000; EdgeIron 8X10G at $19,995; EdgeIron 24GS at $3,995; and 10G-XNPK-CX4 at $995. BigIron MG8 and EdgeIron 24GS, Foundry Networks November 8, 6:00 a.m. PST IBM aims for top 10 with new Spanish supercomputer IBM Corp. and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science introduced a new supercomputer on Friday that they hope will be the most powerful in Europe, and among the 10 most powerful in the world. November 5, 5:20 a.m. PST IBM, SGI win Linux supercomputer deals in Asia IBM Corp. and Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) have won contracts to supply Linux-based supercomputers to a Korean national university and a Japanese nuclear research institute, the two companies said Thursday. November 4, 10:38 p.m. PST Update: IBM posts broad Q3 revenue growth IBM Corp. posted quarterly results on Monday showing 9 percent revenue growth from last year and slight earnings growth, despite a $320 million charge it took during the quarter to settle some claims in a lawsuit over its pension plan. October 18, 5:45 p.m. PDT ClearSpeed races ahead on processor cores ClearSpeed Technology has doubled the performance of its high-performance computing co-processor for scientific workstations and server clusters by incorporating 96 separate processing cores on a single chip, the company announced Wednesday at the Fall Processor Forum in San Jose, California. October 6, 4:34 p.m. PDT IBM reclaims top supercomputer crown for U.S. For the first time since 2002, Japan's Earth Simulator is not the most powerful supercomputer on the planet. September 29, 4:31 a.m. PDT Sun offers pay-as-you-go computing service See correction below September 21, 8:17 a.m. PDT New Orion workstation puts cluster in a box A new company thinks it has the answer to the complaints of scientists and engineers looking for high-performance computing (HPC) on the desktop. The Orion Cluster Workstation packs the power of a PC cluster into a desktop-size package using low-power chips and an innovative motherboard design. August 30, 4:59 a.m. PDT IBM brings supercomputing to Houston IBM Corp. is adding a third supercomputing center to its services facilities, this one targeted at petroleum-industry customers. August 26, 9:17 a.m. PDT Update: IBM tapped for U.S. Army supercomputer The U.S. Army has tapped IBM Corp. to provide a high-performance computing system using Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), in a project that aims to create one of the fastest supercomputers in the world. August 3, 9:14 a.m. PDT Microsoft jumps into the HPC game After kicking the decision around for a few months, Microsoft on Wednesday announced it would make its entry into the HPC (high-performance computing) arena and promised to deliver a version of Windows Server 2003 for that market sometime during the second half of 2005. June 23, 2:00 p.m. PDT PNNL, SGI aim to turn storage wares into calculators Can storage systems also become number crunchers? That's what a new research project, launched Tuesday by Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), aims to discover. June 22, 1:53 p.m. PDT Apple adds HPC customer but falls from Top500 Apple Computer Inc. took a step forward and a step backward Monday in its quest to prove itself a viable player in the world of high performance computing (HPC). June 22, 5:32 a.m. PDT Google’s supercomputer In exchange for your free gigabyte of searchable e-mail, Google’s newly announced Web mail service, Gmail, will scan your messages and match them to relevant ads. Some people are worried about invasion of privacy. Others, like InfoWorld Test Center Contributing Editor Phil Windley, think that issue is a red herring. “If you truly respect my privacy, keep your nose out of my business with Google — it’s private,” he writes on his blog. May 7, 3:00 p.m. PDT IBM opens European supercomputer on-demand center DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY - To meet growing demand for supercomputing services, IBM Corp. opened a new high-capacity center in Europe on Friday -- its second such center and first outside the U.S. April 30, 11:55 a.m. PDT Attacks at universities raise security concerns Malicious hackers in recent weeks have infiltrated computer systems at universities in the U.S. and worldwide, leading to questions about the security of scientific research data, according to an official at the U.S. National Science Foundation. April 14, 11:00 a.m. PDT RackSaver buys software company, changes name SAN FRANCISCO - RackSaver Inc., which sells servers and software used to build high performance computing clusters, has acquired systems management software vendor MPI Software Technology Inc., it announced Monday. RackSaver has also changed its name to Verari Systems Inc., effective immediately. April 12, 4:44 p.m. PDT Panelists call for lightweight Linux SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- Linux users and distributors were divided on the question of whether Linux distributions should become simpler or more complex during a panel discussion on the future of Linux cluster distributions that took place here at the ClusterWorld Conference & Expo here Tuesday. April 7, 5:43 a.m. PDT > Hardware > Clustering > Networking > Clustering |
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