29th July 2010 Archive

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• Supercomputer geek builds Cray-1 around home PC

  More powerful than the original?

  Daryl Brach, known as pfaffen online, has built a scale model of the Cray-1 supercomputer to house a PC. The Cray-1, (pictured above) the world's first supercomputer, was launched in 1976. It was rated at a peak performance of 250MFLOPS and had "200,000 integrated circuits, 3,400 printed circuit boards, 60 miles of wire, and …

  Enterprise 29 Jul 11:02

• Pay-off or lay-off: HP calls on 700 staff to heed redundo plea

  EOW woe

  Hewlett-Packard has reduced the number of UK employees it plans to show the door in its latest round of redundancies from 934 to 720. Employees at the company received an email, seen by The Register, from management last week in which HP confirmed that it was asking for all its UK infrastructure technology outsourcing (ITO) …

  Enterprise 29 Jul 13:03

• IBM buys file compressor

  Storwize swallowed

  IBM is buying Storwize for its real-time, inline data compression technology and products. Storwize produces appliances, the STN-2100 and STN-6000, which sit in front of NAS (network-attached storage) arrays and compress data being written to the array, using Lempel-Ziv algorithms in its Random Access Compression Engine (RACE …

  Enterprise 29 Jul 14:43

• Oracle and HP make a deal for Solaris on ProLiants

  Dell does deal for PowerEdges, too

  The inscrutable plan of Oracle for Solaris 10 on x64 servers became more... scrutable this morning. The company announced that Dell and Hewlett-Packard would be certifying and reselling Oracle's Solaris and Enterprise Linux operating systems, as well as its Oracle VM implementation of the Xen hypervisor on their respective …

  Enterprise 29 Jul 14:53