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Volume 1, Number 40 -- November 16, 2004

The Linux Beacon is taking a vacation on November 23 and will resume publishing on Tuesday, November 30.


 
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Linux, X86 Clusters Take Over Top 500 Supercomputer Ranking
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

All eyes in the high performance computing market were focused on Pittsburgh last week as the semi-annual ranking of the Top 500 supercomputers was announced at the Supercomputing 2004 trade show. Supercomputing is a political as well as a technical endeavor, and the indigenous American server makers were rooting as not one but two systems knocked the reigning champ, NEC's behemoth Earth Simulator, out of the top spot on the list. READ MORE >

 

Intel Pushes Out Dual-Core Itaniums, Or Does It?
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

To hear the top brass at Intel talk about it, everything is fine and dandy in Itanium land, and the fact that the dual-core "Montecito" Itanium processors have been pushed out to a volume ramp up in the first half of 2006 is not only not a problem, it has apparently been the plan all along. This will, of course, come as something of a surprise to the server makers who are dependent on the Itanium roadmap to plan their product rollouts. READ MORE >


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Unisys Adds New Itaniums, Tweaks ES7000 Server Line
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Intel has rolled out its updated "Madison" Itanium 2 processors, and Unisys has turned into one of the big supporters of Itanium because of its desire to sell big Wintel boxes and, now, big Lintel boxes to customers who might otherwise buy RISC/Unix machines. So it comes as no surprise that Unisys is supporting the peppier "Madison" chips from Intel as well as tweaking its server line to allow better integration of Xeon and Itanium processors within a single ES7000 server. READ MORE >

 

Gartner Releases IT and Business Trends Through 2010
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

When the year comes to a close, it is the traditional time for pundits and IT analysts to whip out their crystal balls and prognosticate about the future of corporate computing. The analysts at Gartner, which hosted its annual Symposium/ITxpo two weeks ago, jumped the gun a bit (it was only early November) and released their report on the technology and business trends that will affect IT operations. READ MORE >

 

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  But Wait, There's More

Sun Takes on Linux With Free, Open-Source Solaris . . . Mandrakesoft Delivers Linux 2.6 for 64-Bit Xeons, Opterons . . . HP, BEA Post Good Benchmarks on Four-Way Itanium-Linux Boxes . . . Red Hat Opens Beijing Offices . . . VMware Cuts GSX Server Prices . . . IDC Plots Steady Software Sales Through 2008 . . . Server Shipments in Eastern Europe Booming . . . READ MORE >




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Editor: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Managing Editor: Shannon Pastore
Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Joe Hertvik, Kevin Vandever,
Shannon O'Donnell, Victor Rozek, Hesh Wiener, Alex Woodie
Publisher and Advertising Director: Jenny Thomas
Advertising Sales Representative: Kim Reed
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THIS ISSUE
SPONSORED BY:

Acucorp
Key Information Systems
Open Systems
ShaoLin Microsystems
Novell


BACK ISSUES

TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Linux, X86 Clusters Take Over Top 500 Supercomputer Ranking

Intel Pushes Out Dual-Core Itaniums, Or Does It?

Unisys Adds New Itaniums, Tweaks ES7000 Server Line

Gartner Releases IT and Business Trends Through 2010

But Wait, There's More




The Four Hundred
How the i5s Compare with Other Big Boxes

IT Salaries: Up, Flat, or Down in 2005?

CSC Offers Trade-Ins to iSeries Shops Buying i5s and Fast400

The Windows Observer
Microsoft Settles Antitrust Claim with Novell for $536 Million

Upcoming Windows HPC Version Gets Tooling from Microsoft

Intel Boosts Itanium 2 Chip Performance Modestly

The Unix Guardian
HP Refreshes Entry Integrity Line with New Itaniums

Solaris 10 to Launch on November 15

IBM's eServer p5s Rock the TPC-C Benchmark




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