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Virtual Linux is the prescription for hospital patients (iTWire)

iTWire reports on a new Linux installation by a Glendale, California hospital. " Adventist Medical Center (GAMC) has installed thin clients running Linux virtual desktops in 65 patient rooms in its new West Tower. "Just as easily as the hospital provides patients with TVs in rooms, now we provide personal computing," said Roger Pruyne, senior programmer/analyst and project manager for...

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IBM builds water cooled supercomputer

The Aquasar system, which boasts two IBM BladeCenter servers in one rack and peak performance of 10 Teraflops, will use chip-level water-cooling as well as reusing any excess heat to warm the university…

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IBM bundles x86 servers with VMware, offers special financing

IBM is bundling its x86 servers with VMware's newest virtualization platform, and offering financing packages to lower upfront costs. The move combines IBM's System x product line, including blade, rack and tower servers, with VMware's vSphere software, which was introduced in April. The new financing options let customers put zero down up front, and finance purchases as small as $5,000. The financing...

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Voltaire 40 Gb InfiniBand Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter

Technote, published: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 Clients want to increase the use of their existing servers to reduce overall cost as well as the IT footprint within the organization.

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2-Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter

Technote, published: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 The 2-Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter is a dual port InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter (HCA) based on proven Mellanox ConnectX IB technology.

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IBM supercomputer to heat university buildings

Excess waste heat from a supercomputer being constructed by IBM will be used to warm nearby university buildings in Switzerland. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) and IBM announced the plans to build a water-cooled supercomputer dubbed Aquasar, which they are saying is the first of its kind. It will consist of two IBM BladeCenter servers in one rack and will have a peak performance...

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Water-cooled Aquasar supercomputer does math, heats dorm rooms

Not that we haven't seen this trick pulled before , but there's still something magical about the forthcoming Aquasar. Said supercomputer , which will feature two IBM BladeCenter servers in each rack, should be completed by 2010 and reach a top speed of ten teraflops. Such a number pales in comparison to the likes of IBM's Roadrunner , but it's the energy factor here that makes it a star. If all goes...

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SciNet, IBM launch one of fastest supercomputers

A newly-completed supercomputer facility at the University of Toronto's SciNet Consortium is expected to place in the top 20 of the Top500 List of fastest supercomputers in the world. With a peak processing power of more than 300 trillion calculations per second, the supercomputer will be used for research in the areas of aerospace, astrophysics, bioinformatics, chemical physics, climate change prediction,...

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IBM's Roadrunner holds supercomputer crown

The Top500 list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world has been topped for a record tenth time by an IBM system. The Roadrunner system at Los Alamos National Laboratory in California clocked in at a brisk 1.105 petaflops (one thousand trillion calculations per second). The results, announced during the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany show the IBM system is nearly...

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IBM Roadrunner Dusts Cray Jaguar in World's Fastest Supercomputer Race

The Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers was released June 23 at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany. Sitting atop the list--again--was IBM's Roadrunner system, which runs at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory. The IBM BladeCenter system took the top spot a year ago, and has held on since. Also for the second year in a row, Cray's XT5...

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Canada's newest supercomputer makes debut

TORONTO, June 18 (UPI) -- Canada's fastest supercomputer was powered up and put online Wednesday north of Toronto to conduct research in planetary physics, aerospace and medicine. The University of Toronto's IBM System x iDataPlex can perform more than 300 trillion calculations a second on 30,240 processors and is among the 15 fastest computers in the world, and the fastest outside the United States,...

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VMware Infrastructure Client incorrectly reports the health status of IBM x Series Servers with an LSI 1078 as Alert (1006786)

· VMware Infrastructure (VI) Client incorrectly reports the health status of IBM System x3850 M2/x3950 M2 Servers with an...

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QLogic 10Gb CNA for IBM System x

Technote, published: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 The QLogic 10Gb CNA for IBM System x is a PCI Express 2.0 x8 10Gb Converged Network Adapter.

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Brocade 10Gb CNA for IBM System x

Technote, published: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 The Brocade 10Gb CNA for IBM System x is a PCI Express 2.0 x8 10Gb Converged Network Adapter with two SFP+ cages.

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Mid-Deranged: Real Manufacturer of the Batmobile Revealed

Armonk NY – Early photos of the prototype version of the famed Batmobile have revealed the real manufacturer as none other than IBM. Who else could pull off making a car with heavy armor plating, a high performance engine, rocket boosters and a weapons system controlled by an IBM Bladecenter ...