The Register - HardwareBiting the hand that feeds ITRed Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 get another year of TLC- June 18, 2008 Lifecycles updated, possibly more complicated than fluid dynamics Summit Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) versions 4 and 5 are going to stick around in full support mode a full year longer.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/18/red_hat_summit_2008_rhel_r... Parallels slices and dices OS X with Server for Mac- June 18, 2008 VMware in the rear Parallels has stolen a march on VMware with the release of virtualization software for Intel-based servers running Apple's OS X Leopard operating system.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/18/parallels_mac_server_intel... Red Hat meanders into hypervisor market- June 18, 2008 Don't be so aggressive, guys Summit Red Hat is extremely late to the virtualization hypervisor party, but the company is confident that its reputation as a prominent Linux licenser will push the technology to even greater heights. Open source style.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/18/red_hat_summit_2008_virtua... IBM's Roadrunner is top of the supercomputer pops- June 18, 2008 Going faster miles an hour So IBM beat IBM in the new supercomputer TOP500 hit parade published today. No surprise there, with Roadrunner, the new no.1, built by IBM for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, earning plenty of airtime last week for being the first petaflop computer.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/18/ibm_roadrunner_top500/ ClearSpeed's silicon freshness results in 41 Teraflop rack- June 18, 2008 Cited for floating point abuse Cheaper and faster - check. ClearSpeed has hit the two major keys to winning in the silicon game with the release of its latest floating point accelerators.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/18/clearspeed_700/ XtremeData gives Xeon chips another math lesson with FPGAs- June 18, 2008 Front-side bus snuggling included XtremeData is shipping its newest set of FPGAs made for giving Intel's Xeon chips a helping hand with math work.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/18/xtremedata_xd200i/ Sainsbury's customers starve as servers melt down- June 18, 2008 Try something unstable today Sainsbury's on-line ordering system thought it would try something new today, and opted for disappearing completely and taking the day's orders with it.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/18/sainsburys_off_line/ VeriSign builds out DNS security defences- June 18, 2008 Give me DNSSec but not just yet VeriSign is pushing ahead with plans to make the internet's Domain Name System (DNS) more resilient to internet attacks. But although it will make its upgraded server infrastructure IPv6 and DNSSec ready, the net infrastructure giant reckons the touted performance improvements promised by the protocols have been delivered by other means.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/18/verisign_project_titan/ Acceleware creates beastly GPU-based cluster- June 17, 2008 Crushing Gigacells 64 Tesla cards at a time Hot on the heels of Nvidia's latest Tesla hardware unveiling, high performance computing partner Acceleware is cramming stacks of the graphics cards into new kit.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/17/acceleware_c30_16/ Google keeps killing penguins for money- June 17, 2008 Can the Earth survive its secrecy Comment On the grand list of things that Google cares about killing penguins to save a few bucks ranks higher than making the world a greener place.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/17/google_penguins_data/ |