Orion Workstations Act as Single-Box Clusters
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A startup company is rolling out a family of workstations aimed at the technical computing space that offer clusterlike capabilities inside a single box.
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When the Hypersonic Missile Technology team at COLSA Corporation and the U.S. Army need to model hypersonic flight on a computer system, they&#146;ll no longer have to wait two months to get results. They now can use one of the world&#146;s largest and most powerful computers: a supercluster of 1,566 64-bit, dual-processor Apple Xserve G5 servers. [Sep 14]
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By Woods, Lynn; Kahn, Kathy  Remember the days when computers were giant mainframes housed in garage-sized rooms at big companies? There may be a lesson in that model certainly a market, as Symbio Technologies has discovered.
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Ziff Davis - At half the price of its high-end system, the new ftServer W Series 2300 system offers users an alternative to clusters.
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BOFFINS AND boffinettes at Imperial College London are developing a new optical disk that can store a terabyte of data. The Multiplexed Optical Data Storage (Mods)technology is expected to be released towards
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Microsoft will come out with a special version of Windows next year for clusters, but it won&#39;t run on Intel&#39;s most powerful server chip, at least for now.
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Tinkerer Iain Sharp couldn't bear to part with his first computer -- a Mac SE/30 -- so he turned it into a powerful media server using a mini PC motherboard and a software emulator. By Leander Kahney.
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As âa direct result of proof-of-concept testingâ indicating that the Washington-based Auto Warehousing Co. (AWC) âcan cut costs, increase system reliability and security, and provide expanded IT support services,â AWC âwill begin systematically pulling the plug on all Windows-based PCs in its cavernous auto processing shop and power up Macs to execute virtually all of its revenue-generating operations. The move comes on the heels of a quiet wholesale replacement of Windows-based servers for data storage and Web operations, which are now running on Apple Inc.âs Xserve RAID machines,â reports Julia King (Computerworld).
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If you need a supercomputer on your desktop, Orion Multisystems has a machine for you. Aiming at scientists and engineers who need to do serious data crunching, the Santa Clara start-up will
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This whitepaper will provide information on using Veritas&trade; Cluster Server to increase application availability in a cost-effective way. It will provide an overview of the history of clustering solutions in the open systems market and detail how Veritas clustering differs from other solutions in the control of larger, more cost-effective clusters.
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Im in ur base processing ur Java Azul Systems is rolling out a new generation of Java-crunching appliances armed with the ability to spread its workload across a total of 768 processing cores in a single box.â¦
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Blog: The graphics chipmaker has a new lineup of chips that can be plugged into servers or workstations to boost the performance of scientific computing applications.
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Gaurav Khanna, an assistant professor of  astrophysics, is using a cluster of eight Sony PlayStation 3 consoles running Linux to run computations that used to require hundreds of supercomputer nodes.
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Strolling past a row of user cubes during his lunch break, this IT guy notices something odd: One PC's monitor has a full-screen DOS prompt with lots of commands already entered -- and it looks like trouble.
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When Fully buffered DIMMs attack A recent benchmark comparing quad-core chips asserts that Intel Xeon-based servers have an edge in performance but are complete power hogs when compared to the dainty energy appetite of AMD Opteron-based servers.â¦
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Can computers get along fine without writers? Word is they just might. [Missing Link]
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Orion Multisystems, a new company founded by former Transmeta (Quote, Chart) executives, debuted a family of workstations Monday that think and act like a cluster of servers.