Monday unveiling At next week’s Intel Developer Forum , Chipzilla will unveil its long-awaited Sandy Bridge microarchitecture — and the more we learn about it, the more it appears to share with AMD’s oh-so-late Fusion effort.…

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Intel Sandy Bridge preps for AMD Fusion fracas

Magic quantum opti-chip can be made in normal fab, too Optical stuff is great, as everyone knows: optical links mean huge bandwidth right now, and computers running on photons rather than electrons might be truly amazing things – tremendously powerful, very economical of energy, and potentially able to exploit quantum effects to achieve all manner of mindbending feats.…

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New ‘iPhoD’ can ‘adjust the speed of light by turning a knob’

Xeon blade and rack boxes for telcos and hosters It is not a coincidence that Oracle is paying close attention to the Netra server lineup since taking over Sun Microsystems back in January. Telecommunications companies and service providers of various sorts still have lots Sparc/Solaris iron installed, and it is here where Oracle must build a defensive perimeter and hold the line with its Netra products.…

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Oracle rings up new Netra servers

Double standards Analysis   “You want computers to discover each other and just share stuff,” I recall Steve Jobs saying back in 2002, as he personally demonstrated wireless music streaming at an Apple developer event.…

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Apple’s AirPlay: Bring the walled garden home

Ready for prime time? Webcast   Our pals at the HPC Advisory Council have been busy in the past few months and it seemed time to tap them for an update, in our September HPC Community webcast .…

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HPC Advisory Council unveils Cloud HPC initiative

Fuggedaboutit? Review   A few hours into Mafia II and it finally happens. It’s the summer of 1951 and you’ve just been released from an eight-year stretch in Sing Sing. You’re cruising around the wide, pristine streets of Empire Bay – the game’s fictional amalgam of New York, Chicago and San Fransico – when all of a sudden you hear the unmistakable pow of saxophones and horns in the intro for Ain’t That a Kick in the Head .…

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Mafia II

Doomsday Weekend 2: Trevor Pott and the Domain of Fire Sysadmin Blog   On Doomsday Weekend we completely replaced our Windows domain. It was a miserable experience. It’s hard to describe how much work is involved in replacing a mature domain; certainly more than I had anticipated. It’s even harder to explain the hell to non-sysadmins.…

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A series of disorderly events

Supplier diversity could suffer More than three-quarters of businesses in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are looking to consolidate their existing IT infrastructure in the next 12 months, according to Brocade-commissioned research.…

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European CIOs get consolidation

Software upgrade available… if you know where to look Panasonic has quietly rolled out a software update for its 2009 series of internet-connectable HD TVs. The patch usefully adds BBC iPlayer and – perhaps less so – a Twitter client.…

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Panasonic adds iPlayer, Twitter to tellies

Blocks homebrew hack? Sony UK has posted PlayStation 3 firmware version 3.42 . The update incorporates a “patch… added to address security vulnerability in the system software”.…

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Sony updates PS3 system software