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tgdaily.com - 1/27/2009

IBM to pay shareholders cash dividend after lay offs

— tgdaily.com — $650M will not support 6,500 employees at $100K/yr Not that I agree it's right of IBM to... pay their shareholders and lay off so may people, but your math is a bit off because there are other factors. With health care, facility maintenance/bills, and ... (more) IBM to pay shareholders cash dividend after lay offs

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go.theregister.com - 1/28/2009

IBM whittles x64 iron prices

— go.theregister.com — Chips are down, and servers too IBM's x64 server business took it on the chin pretty hard... in Q4, and today, it formally price cuts for companies who buy direct from Big Blue. The price cuts are probably not an indication of the discounting levels ... (more) IBM whittles x64 iron prices

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go.theregister.com - 2/6/2009

Intel to spill Nehalem secrets

— go.theregister.com — Wither AMD? IBM? Sun? It's the beginning of a new year, and that means chip makers will... soon show off their wares at the annual International Solid State Circuits Conference, which runs next week in San Francisco. This time around, Intel pretty ... (more) Intel to spill Nehalem secrets

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IBM Building Supercomputer with 1.6 Million Cores, Expects to Hit 20 Petaflops
Maximum PC — ... Laboratory and will handle analysis of the U.S. nuclear stockpile (and spy on your thoughts). But the full 20 petaflops of computing power won't be available right away. The deal stipulates IBM will deliver one of its BlueGene/P systems capable of 500 teraflops by April, with a followup system called Sequoia to be delivered sometime in 2012. "The Sequoia system will be 15 times faster than BlueGene/P with roughly the same footprint and a modest increase in pwoer consumption," said Herb Schultz , manager in IBM's deep computing group. BlueGene/P uses a modified PowerPC 450 ...

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IBM working on 20 petaflops supercomputer for US government
DV Hardware — ... faster data rate. Both BlueGene/P and Sequoia consist of clusters built up from 96 racks of systems. Sequoia will have 1.6 petabytes of memory feeding its 1.6 million cores, but many details of its design have not yet been disclosed. "The Sequoia system will be 15 times faster than BlueGene/P with roughly the same footprint and a modest increase in power consumption," said Herb Schultz, manager in IBM's deep computing group. More details at EE Times. IBM working on 20 petaflops supercomputer for US government - ...