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HP Continues to Dominate...
HP Ranks "Best in Class" in IDC's New HPC Benchmark
In two out of four categories, HP crushes rivals in comprehensive test
Features:
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THE INCREASE IN CHIP SPEED IS ACCELERATING, NOT SLOWING
- In the world of computer chips, Moore's Law is becoming less of an
axiom and more of a drag race.
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PREDICTIONS, PREVENTION KEY TO CYBERSECURITY
- Though communication between the government and private sector in the
area of cybersecurity has been good, the U.S. National Infrastructure
Protection Center has areas in which it can improve, according to NIPC
director Ronald Dick.
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THE CHANGING FACE OF LINUXWORLD
- IDG's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo is a very different show in 2002
than it has been in the past, perhaps best exemplified by IBM Corp.'s
slogan, "Linux is real business."
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U.S. MILITARY PREPARES FOR CYBERATTACKS
- The vulnerability of U.S. information networks is high in the mind of
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld as he plots to change the
U.S. armed forces so they can better defend against unconventional
threats.
Science News:
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INSIDE INTEL'S MONSTER CHIP
- McKinley, Intel's upcoming server processor, will cover an area of 464
square millimeters, according to Intel specifications. That's larger
than expected and larger than most chips ever made.
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CHIPMAKERS TO DETAIL LOW-POWER TECHNOLOGY
- Intel, IBM, and other semiconductor companies provided details on how
future chips will run faster on less energy at the International Solid
State Circuits Conference in San Francisco this week.
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UC SANTA CRUZ INSTALLS SECOND HIGH PERFORMANCE CLUSTER
- Installation and testing has been completed on a large HPC cluster at
the Center for the Origin, Dynamics, and Evolution of Planets located
within the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the
University of California, Santa Cruz.
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INTEL AND CAS DELIVER ADVANCED COMPILER FRAMEWORK
- The delivery of an advanced compiler framework marked a milestone in
the ongoing collaboration between Intel Corporation and the Chinese
Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
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NANOWIRE-BASED ELECTRONICS & OPTICS ARE NOW ONE STEP CLOSER
- A team of researchers at the University of California-Berkeley and
another in Sweden have succeeded independently in making lattices that
they say will for the first time enable nanowires to be constructed
with otherwise incompatible materials.
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DOE NERSC INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP
- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific
Computing Center is now accepting applications for the Luis W. Alvarez
Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Computational Science.
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OMG CHARTERS MDA INFRASTRUCTURE TASK FORCE
- The new task force will standardize both object-oriented and message-
oriented request broker technology, as well as Pervasive Services for
the multiple middleware platforms supported by the MDA.
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RESEARCHERS DEVELOP FIRST LIGHT-TUNABLE PLASTIC MAGNET
- Low-cost, flexible electronics and better computer data storage might
result from the world's first light-tunable plastic magnet, just
developed at Ohio State University.
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PREDATORS DRIVE EVOLUTION OF VIRTUAL PREY APPEARANCE
- Two University of Nebraska-Lincoln biologists, in a three year
experiment using live blue jays and evolving virtual moths, have made
the first direct observations to support a longstanding idea involving
the effect of predator behavior on the evolution of prey.
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Commercial News:
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LINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM FACES SKEPTICS, LAWSUIT
- Even before CEO Michael Robertson releases the preview edition of
Lindows, Microsoft has started legal action for alleged trademark
infringement.
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SUN TO REVEAL ADMINISTRATION, LINUX PLANS
- Sun Microsystems is set to unveil a plan code-named N1 that will
involve "virtualizing" hardware and software to shield administrators
from the pains of managing numerous individual boxes filled with
computing gear such as processors and hard disks.
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ELLISON: ORACLE'S WHOLE BUSINESS TO RUN ON LINUX
- Oracle Corp. is about to replace three Unix servers that run the bulk
of its business applications with a cluster of Intel Corp. servers
running Linux, according to Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison.
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EU CLEARS HP, COMPAQ MEGA-MERGER
- The European Commission said it had approved without conditions
Hewlett-Packard Co.'s proposed $23.7 billion takeover of Compaq
Computer Corp., clearing a major hurdle for the controversial deal.
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HEWLETT-PACKARD SETS MARCH 19 MERGER VOTE
- Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Carly Fiorina said the company had
enough support to win the battle, drawing a harsh rebuttal from chief
opponent Walter Hewlett, a son of co-founder Bill Hewlett, who has
mustered founding families against the $23 billion deal.
Quote of the Week:
"It will be several years before the big machine dies, but
inevitably the big machine will die."
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Larry Ellison
Chairman and CEO
Oracle Corp.
News Briefs:
Hardware
Software
Networking
Storage
General
Short Takes:
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Product Watch:
- Sun To Roll Out New Low-End Linux Servers.
AMD Prepares For Hammer Release.
Incite Selects DataDirect Silicon Storage App.
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Financial Update:
- NEC Reports Q3 Financial Results.
SGI Announces Financing Solutions.
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People and Positions:
- Compaq Appoints Tarjan Fellow Of R&D.
Microsoft Appoints New Security Chief.
Cisco Systems Names New Board Member.
We Put Top Professionals In Touch
With Top Organizations
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