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Dell mobile workstation bears compute-intensive loads

The Dell M6500 leverages the high-powered Nehalem, NVIDIA processors within a luggable chassis. Just don’t expect to take to the skies without business-class seating.

The
Dell M6500 is a muscular, 17-inch-display mobile workstation molded
into a 9-pound luggable notebook that can go on location to saw
through compute intense workloads. The M6500 is outfitted with the
most of just about everything–from CPU to graphics, memory and disk.
For high-v…


Sun Talks Up Solaris for Intel ‘Nehalem EX’ Chip

Sun Microsystems officials are touting the work Sun and Intel have done over the past two years to ensure that Solaris works seamlessly with Intel’s chip microarchitecture code-named Nehalem. Intel officials have said they expect servers powered by the eight-core Nehalem EX processor to begin appearing on the market in early 2010. Sun says Solaris has been able to take advantage of the various power, cooling, virtualization and management features in the upcoming Xeon processors.
– Sun Microsystems officials are touting the performance of the Solaris
operating system when run on servers powered by Intel’s upcoming quot;Nehalem
EX quot; processors.
In a recent white
paper, Sun officials said the tight collaboration with Intel over the past
two years has resulted in a Sola…


SGI CEO Clarifies Itanium Stance

Days after SGI officials said the next-generation Altix system dubbed “Ultraviolet” would be powered by Intels upcoming Xeon “Nehalem EX” chips, SGI CEO Mark Barrenechea said in a blog that the company will continue developing systems powered by Itanium, and that Ultraviolet will support both Xeon and Itanium processors. However, the first Ultraviolet systems will be powered by Intel’s eight-core Nehalem EX chips.
– SGI might be building a new high-end Altix system powered by Intels upcoming “Nehalem EX” chips, but that doesnt mean the company is abandoning Itanium, according to SGI CEO Mark Barrenechea.
In a blog post July 24, Barrenechea said that SGI will continue supporting and developing systems that run …


SGI CEO Clarifies Itanium Stance

Days after SGI officials said the next-generation Altix system dubbed “Ultraviolet” would be powered by Intels upcoming Xeon “Nehalem EX” chips, SGI CEO Mark Barrenechea said in a blog that the company will continue developing systems powered by Itanium, and that Ultraviolet will support both Xeon and Itanium processors. However, the first Ultraviolet systems will be powered by Intel’s eight-core Nehalem EX chips.
– SGI might be building a new high-end Altix system powered by Intels upcoming “Nehalem EX” chips, but that doesnt mean the company is abandoning Itanium, according to SGI CEO Mark Barrenechea.
In a blog post July 24, Barrenechea said that SGI will continue supporting and developing systems that run …