From HPCWire, 8/18/10

HEMCUVE Group again beats the world record in computational electromagnetism

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain, Aug. 18 -- On August 15th the HEMCUVE team, formed by scientists from the universities of Extremadura and Vigo, with the collaboration of the technical personnel of the Galicia Supercomputing Center (CESGA), have used the FinisTerrae supercomputer to solve one of the biggest electromagnetic problems in history, containing more than one billio ...

ServerWatch, Drew Robb, 8/6/10

HP recently took the led in server sales from IBM, although there is very little in it. That leap ahead may well be the result of a very busy time for the company since our previous server snapshot more than a year ago. This includes a refresh of the entire Integrity and ProLiant lines, as well as HP making a major play on convergence.

HP is particularly strong in certain segments of the Unix market. HP-UX based systems host more SAP, for ex ...

ServerWatch, Drew Robb, 6/24

When it comes to blades, there is a plethora of x86 options. In contrast, on the non-x86 side there are far fewer choices. Dell and Fujitsu don't offer any at all, for example. A range of possibilities remains, however.

HP's Non-x86 Blades
HP (NYSE:HPQ) has three servers to offer on its Integrity platform using the Intel Itanium 9100 series processor. The Integrity BL860c has up to 48 GB of memory. Pricing starts at $3,847. This ...

Finalists chosen in all other Innovation Award categories

PORTLAND, Ore., June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The Itanium® Solutions Alliance today announced Spain's La Fundacion Computacion y Tecnologias Avanzadas de Extremadura (COMPUTAEX) as the winner in the Humanitarian Impact category of its 2010 Itanium Innovation Awards. COMPUTAEX, a non-profit founded to support a wide variety of social, environmental and scientific improvement projects for the Extremadura region of southwestern Spai ...

Despite Advances of Xeon, HPC Accelerators, Itanium Still in Demand

By Anton Shilov, XBits Labs

The gap between performance, feature-set and capabilities of Xeon and Intel Itanium central processing units (CPUs) is closing. Nonetheless, IA64 microprocessors will still be needed by certain customers, according to the manufacturer.

“Itanium enables Intel and HP to compete in the high-end, mission-critical UNIX market.  Many in the industry believe ...

By Mark Fontecchio, Site Editor, SearchOracle.com

Jewelry manufacturer Stuller is running its Oracle databases and ERP software on a 10-year-old HP Superdome server, but the time has come to put the workhorse to sleep. Rather than moving to the more popular x86 hardware, the company decided to stick with Oracle on Unix.

In the end, Stuller decided to stick with Oracle on Unix, upgrading to a new HP Superdome server based on Intel’s Itanium chip. But along the way, t ...

Commercial Linux distributor Novell is hoping that the delivery of the first service pack update for its SUSE Linux 11 operating system for servers and desktops will give the software a bump. And not just because SP1 has support for lots of new hardware.

According to Kerry Kim, senior product marketing manager at Novell in charge of its Linux lineup, no matter how good a new version of an operating system is, there are IT shops that simply will not install the code until it gets its first do ...