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  • HP to unveil nanotech breakthrough

    Hewlett-Packard researchers will unveil a major breakthrough in the field of nanotechnology, a milestone in the company's goal to build chips based on "molecular grids".

  • IT titans to put datacentres on energy diet?

    The Green Grid, a nonprofit organisation designed to improve energy efficiency for datacentres and corporate computing, announced on Monday its first board of directors.

  • Intel to offer open source developers for OLPC

    Intel has partnered with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project and will initially provide its army of Linux and open source developers to help improve the OLPC software.

  • Supercomputing deal boosts Aussie understanding of galaxy origin

    The Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) and SGI Australia have signed a supercomputing deal designed to increase the nation's understanding of issues such as climate change and the origin of galaxies.

  • SuSE tailors Linux for Itanium

    German Linux seller SuSE has unveiled a version of the open-source operating system tailored for Intel's Itanium chip.

  • Intel buys cluster-computing software

    Intel has agreed to buy a high-performance computing software group from German company Pallas, the chipmaker's latest effort to use software to let customers squeeze more performance out of its processors.

  • The information debate: Where vendor interests collide

    Where is the technology industry going and what should customers be focussing on? Last week, executives from five top IT vendors, Microsoft, Oracle, Intel, Dell, and EMC met to debate these questions.

  • Australian vendors tout Pentium 4-M wares

    Intel launched the Pentium 4-M processor at Australia's IT Comdex show this morning, claiming it wasn’t just a processor but a new mobile platform.

  • Lights out in Silicon Valley

    Intel, Sun, and other Silicon Valley companies are responding to warnings from California's power companies—power down or risk blacking out.

  • Linux leaps into business

    It's starting to look like 2001 will be the year Linux gets down to business. Systems managers who used to ask how the open source code crept in the back door now ask if they can get the server to run it through the front door.

  • Oracle unveils first hardware product

    Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled its first ever hardware product a storage server with embedded software designed to work with the company's databases and be used in a grid. The Exadata programmable storage server aims to put database intelligence next to each drive.

  • Red Hat makes Linux go 100 times faster

    Open-source specialist Red Hat has launched a "real-time" addition to its Linux operating system, which it claims will make some features run 100 times faster than rival technologies.

  • IBM's racetrack memory seeks 100x density boost

    IBM researchers gave ZDNet.com.au's sister site CNET News.com an insight its latest "racetrack" memory, which IBM promises will bring a 100 fold increase in density by storing data in long magnetised nanowires rather than disks.

  • IBM explores biological binary for chip refinery

    Can scientists use the binary of biology, DNA, to grow carbon nanotubes into more efficient circuits? IBM thinks so.

  • Linux should use less power and go green

    At a summit in Canada next week, Linux developers will meet to discuss ways of improving Linux's power management capabilities.

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