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HP Announces Massive Job Cuts
Hewlett-Packard Co. will lay off nearly 10 percent of its staff in a restructuring plan designed to increase its ability to compete in the computer market and boost profitability. The Palo Alto, Calif., computer giant on Tuesday announced the plan, which includes cutting 14,500 positions from is global work force of 150,000, and reorganizing its…
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In the Server Room, Cooling Is a Hot Topic
Vendors are looking to both hardware and software to help customers handle growing problems with heat in data centers. The focus comes at a time when the promise of greater compute power is being thwarted by the increased heat generated by faster processors and denser form factors. System makers say new features in their servers…
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High-Level System Models Reduce Errors
At the apogee of software challenges are the rigorous demands of robotic deep-space missions. NASA’s July 4 success in hitting a bullet with a bullet—specifically, hitting a comet nucleus with a probe about the size of a coffee table at a relative speed of 23,000 mph—updates the archive of these high-profile tests. Ironically, such missions…
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Interex Disbands, Cancels HP World
Interex, the user group for Hewlett-Packard’s systems customers, has disbanded and canceled next month’s HP World show in San Francisco. Interex officials on its Web site Monday cited financial reasons for shutting down, calling the decision “unavoidable.” The 31-year-old organization had about 100,000 members. “It is with great sadness that, after 31 years, we have…
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Build a Compact Pentium M PC
Something Old, Something New Last year, Dave Salvator took a look at the inner workings of the latest Intel mobile processor, code-named Dothan. Dothan is the second-generation Pentium M processor, built on Intel’s 90nm manufacturing process and sporting 2MB of L2 cache. Later, Jason Cross investigated Dothan’s performance in his review of the Pentium M…
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Dual-Core Server Hits the Midmarket
Dell Inc. and Silicon Graphics Inc. are bringing high-end technology to systems aimed at the low-end and midrange segments of the market. Dell this week is introducing its first server powered by Intel Corp.’s dual-core technology. Customers buying the PowerEdge SC430 will have the option of running it on Intel’s dual-core Pentium D chip. The…
