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Rumor Round-Up 2019 Mac Pro - all we know

September 10, 2019September 10, 2019 Karan S

Aррlе іn Junе unvеіlеd іtѕ 2019 Mас Pro, mаrkіng thе fіrѕt nеw Mас Prо ѕіnсе 2013, whеn Aррlе rеlеаѕеd thе cylinder-shaped “trаѕh саn” mасhіnе thаt nеvеr saw any updates аftеr duаl GPUѕ fеll оut of fаvоr and fосuѕ ѕhіftеd tо mоrе роwеrful ѕіnglе GPU орtіоnѕ. The nеw Mас Pro іѕ a high-end hіgh-thrоughрut machine dеѕіgnеd for Apple’s pro uѕеr bаѕе. Aррlе lеаrnеd frоm its mіѕtаkеѕ аnd thе thеrmаl lіmіtаtіоnѕ оf thе design оf thе 2013 Mac Prо and the new Mас Pro features a dеѕіgn thаt’ѕ ѕіmіlаr tо thе rесtаngulаr…

AMD unveils 6 core processor named Istanbul

June 3, 2009June 15, 2009 Tarandeep Singh

AMD on Monday introduced its six-core Opteron chip for servers, also known as Istanbul, and positioned it as a value play for data centers looking for an easy way to expand and power efficiency. For AMD, the early launch of Istanbul is a positive development in its battle with Intel. AMD, however, is months behind Intel’s Dunnington chip, a six-core server processor that launched in September. Leslie Sobon, vice president of product marketing at AMD, gave her pitch in a Webcast. Her message: Istanbul is an easier upgrade since its…

Nehalem-EX - 8 cores, 128 threads

May 27, 2009March 5, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

Yesterday Intel revealed details of next-generation server processor, code-named Nehalem-EX, and it’s pretty cool! As you might have guessed, the Nehalem-EX is based on the Nehalem microarchitecture, which Intel debuted with the Xeon 5500 and Core i7 series of processors. While the Xeon 5500 and Core i7 processors feature 4 cores and 8 threads (thanks to Hyper-Threading), the Nehalem-EX series is kitted out with up to 8 cores and support for up to sixteen threads. To support the cores the Nehalem-EX has 24MB of cache. Intel Nehalem Architecture built on Intel’s…

Did Cisco copy JUNOS to make IOS XE?

May 25, 2009August 19, 2009 Tarandeep Singh

JUNOS had been a modular OS since day one. Cisco had a monolithic OS from day one which gives downtimes. Cisco hired few people from Juniper and adopted their “best practices” into their crappy IOS. What Juniper has to say about it: Juniper is often not one to discuss with the media its thoughts on the competition when the competition - i.e. Cisco - makes a big product announcement. However, this week, Juniper CTO and founder Pradeep Sindhu told exactly what he thought of Cisco’s new ASR 1000 router, namely…

Oracle packing up bags for serious HardCore Cloud computing?

May 13, 2009May 13, 2009 Tarandeep Singh

-They bought the Best scalable hardware platform Sun SPARC. They got bundled most powerful OS: Solaris. -They got free, though Most powerful, development language: JAVA. -They bought the best JAVA App server: BEA WebLogic. -Then was acquisition for Grid Computing to middle-ware with the Application Grid approach to infrastructure. And Now, they bought among the most feature-full Datacenter Virtualization product: Virtual Iron Doesn’t this sound like a business plan? You got the best Hardware and supplementing OS on the most popular platform. When all packed well, It creates “Future of…

Firefox to go multi-threaded for multicores.

May 10, 2009 Tarandeep Singh

Mozilla’s developers have announced plans to add application multi-threading to Firefox over the next two years, a feature already partially enabled in its main rivals, IE8 and Google Chrome. As well as allowing the software to take advantage of multi-core microprocessors to boost responsiveness, the enhancement would also improve browser stability, the company said in a news blog on the subject. The unnamed project will happen in several phases, with the phase one ‘bootstrap’ due to complete by the middle of this July. Further phases will add and debug more…

Core i7 Turbo Mode. Why this Quad core Rocks!

May 5, 2009May 5, 2009 Tarandeep Singh

Last big leap was when when they came up with speedStep technology in Core Duo and Core 2 Duo Processors. Now core i7 will give you 4 cores + 2 threads (HT) on each. So, 8 Threads for your CPU intensive applications: encoding, editing and rendering. So what is this Turbo Mode? Suppose you have 4 apps eating your 4 cores. Say 3 apps were utilizing the best out of ur each corresponding cores…and this 4th app whos a nerd is not utilizing full CPU, hes utilizing 50% of the…

VMware embraces the cloud with vSphere

May 1, 2009 Tarandeep Singh

VMware has launched vSphere, the latest rendition of what used to be called Virtual Infrastructure. vSphere comes in three product segments and seven editions, one of which is the familiar (and free) ESXi edition. Scott Lowe provides a brief overview of the new editions and some of the features. VMware has modified its product portfolio to continue to enhance its virtualization platform’s capabilities and to attempt to tap into the small business market. Today, six core servers are available, with the companies working on jamming ever more cores on a chip. VMware’s…