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By Erin Collopy This week, HP’s high-performance computing (HPC) team lands in Portland for the annual Supercomputing 09 conference (SCO9), where they’ll be meeting with loads of customers, partners, press and industry analysts to discuss the hot new technologies and trends in HPC. To coincide...
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For some of financial and data-acquisition applications, it's more important to finish one calculation super-fast than a bunch of calculations slightly slower. There's a group of HPC apps with a similar requirement: two identical instructions need to have precisely the same latency, every time...
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Data centers around the world are wrestling with a common set of challenges. Over half are not optimized for agility. Most are not agile enough to easily respond to changing client demands or unexpected execution problems. In many data centers, a good portion of the IT budget is still trapped in maintenance...
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I just read the article “ Mainframe cheerleaders caution big iron defectors against x86 ”, where an analyst is quoted as saying: " PCs are not mainframes ...". Let’s stop there - because thinking that PCs are synonymous with x86 servers shows an immature understanding of the...
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HP is showcasing our latest virtualization solutions at VMworld 2009 in San Francisco (Aug 31-Sept 3). Not enough money to attend this dedicated virtualization event? Conference passes are available until August 30th at $1495 for a full conference pass. To register using the HP discount code, go to http...
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By Steve Gillaspy, Group Manager, HP BladeSystem Product Team Today, HP announced that Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) upgraded their entire IT infrastructure to HP ProLiant servers. To date, CTCA has deployed more than 500 HP ProLiant rack and blade servers as part of a major infrastructure...
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Need to estimate power consumption and proper selection of components? Check out the HP Power Advisor . Other features are also provided including a condensed bill of materials, a cost of owner ship calculator, and a power report. Reduce power consumption with ProLiant right-size power supplies. In HP’s...
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HPTF showcased an overwhelming amount of demos, sessons, cool techies stuff everywhere you looked. Twitter crept into the scene this year with ten monitors showcasing all of the tweet buzz. ProLiant was certainly shouted about from every corner. One shout that caught my attention was the ProLiant Collection...
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06-19-2009
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Filed under: x86, BladeSystem, ProLiant, Istanbul, HP ProLiant G6 servers, energy efficiency, HPTF, HP Tech Forum, SL6000, DL1000, Matrix
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The HP POD (Performance Optimized Datacenter) is stealing the show at the HP Tech Forum 2009. The POD is set up and you can tour the POD, talk to the experts and also see the power house running the POD. Kevin Egan & Steve Cumings from HP are informative, graciously answering all questions and helping...
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Kristie Popp
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06-17-2009
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Filed under: cooling, servers, datacenter, HP POD, pod, ProLiant, evergy efficiency, performance, iLO, server, power savings, energy efficiency, HPTF, Tech Forum, Tech Form event and expo, HP Tech Forum
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By Chris Purcell Interesting first impressions arriving at Las Vegas international airport – chipper, excited people arriving, to a lot of blearing, tired people leaving. This is my fist opportunity to visit HP Tech Forum which is being held at the Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas – which has attracted...
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Traveling to the show? Share with us your experiences. Can't travel? Stay tuned to this web site for the latest info. At Tech Forum (June 16 - 18 in Las Vegas) HP will showcase its premier enterprise computing solutions. The event will feature daily keynote speakers, presentations and booth demos...
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Kristie Popp
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06-14-2009
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Filed under: HPC, servers, datacenter, HP POD, pod, ProLiant, G6, racks, shared storage, scale-out servers, 2009, HPTF, Tech Forum, Tech Form event and expo
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By John Gromala, director, product marketing, Industry Standard Servers, HP Today, HP introduced our first addition to the HP ProLiant line since the 2001 introduction of blade servers with the new extreme scale ProLiant SL-family. This addition marks a very important inflection point in the industry...
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In blackjack, if you have a great hand versus the house, you can double your bet or “double down” to show the confidence that you have in winning it all. HP’s commitment to our new Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processor is a clear signal that our technology partnership is strong, and...
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s_mathur
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06-03-2009
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Filed under: power, cloud computing, datacenter, x86, BladeSystem, ProLiant, AMD, performance, G6, scale-out servers, measurement
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By Paul Gottsegen, Vice-president, Integrated Marketing, Enterprise Servers & Storage, HP Today, AMD is introducing their new Six-Core AMD Opteron "Istanbul" processors. For our customers, the performance gains of AMD's new chip combined with the innovations around energy efficiency...
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By Lorre Bumgardner, Product Manager - HP Platforms/Partner management Monday, April 27th marked a significant milestone in our 20+ year relationship with Microsoft. We are very excited about the news -- we launched the Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center (ICE-SC) at Microsoft Management...