The Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to use NVIDIA® Tesla™ GPUs to boost the computational horsepower of its TSUBAME supercomputer. Through the addition of 170 Tesla S1070 1U systems, the TSUBAME supercomputer now delivers nearly 170 TFLOPS of theoretical peak performance, as well as 77.48 TFLOPS of measured Linpack performance, placing it, again, amongst the top ranks in the world’s Top 500 Supercomputers.

TYAN today announced at SC’08 that its current line of 23 AMD Opteron™ processor-based platforms and 1 new AMD Opteron™- processor based product will support the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor (codenamed “Shanghai”).  TYAN launched the TYAN S4992 motherboard that will target high-end HPC and workstation users supporting HyperTransport™ 3.0 technology or 5.2 GT/s HyperTransport™ technology links between the four CPUs. The S4992 will have a total memory capacity of 256GB DDR2 800/667/533/400 ECC memory, (5) PCI Express Gen. 2 slots, (1) PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz slot, (2) GbE ports, and onboard iKVM features. Expected to be in mass production in Q1 of 2009.

We've seen PC Manufacturers roll out mini-desktop systems that's well less than 6 liters in volume since the dawn of the Intel Core 2 Duo. Asus made their entry into the market a few months back with the Nova PC, and now, we'e got their latest Essentio PC, touted as the smallest desktop computer with discrete graphics built in. We'll also see one of the most expensive Blu-Ray burner in the Essentio too....

TYAN today announced the release of its versatile flexBLADE™ technical workgroup computing platform based on AMD Opteron™ processors. Capable of a wide range of configurations, the versatile flexBLADE™ is comprised of a single chassis form factor with up to 5 dual socket blades, configurable as a cluster, SMP, hybrid-combination or small server farm. Supporting the full range Next Generation AMD Opteron processors, the platform can scale from a cool and quiet, low power 1500 watt departmental solution, up to a robustly configured 3000 watt compute powerhouse. flexBLADE™ will be available through strategic OEM and System Integrator partners in the coming months.

micronDR (S) Pte Ltd (www.microndr.com.sg), the data recovery specialist, today announces that until November 30, 2007, all customers with mechanically damaged drives will get a free portable hard disk drive to store their recovered data. This is an industry first as most disaster recovery vendors use DVDs to store recovered data. The new drive also comes with six months of free data recovery service.

Dell expects AMD to introduce its quad-core chip, code-named Barcelona, next week and, comparing it with Intel's Clovertown quad-core processor, the company would like to offer customers a choice of either product. "If you look at floating point instructions, Barcelona is about 30 percent faster than Clovertown. However, if you look at integer instructions, Clovertown is about 30 percent faster than Barcelona," Dell said.

While we are lurking around Games Convention Asia one day before it opens, we have spotted a 4-way Tigerton S7000FC4UR server at Anewtech booth. This server is powered by Intel Xeon X7350 quad core "Tigerton" processor clocked at 2.93GHz/1066FSB with 8MB L2 cache topping at 130W TDP. This processor is the highest end of the Xeon 7300 series and is expected to be priced at US$ 2301. More on Xeon 7300 series.

New Trial Service to Feature Asia’s First NFC Stored Value Purse with Over-The-Air Capabilities

Singapore, 04 September 2007 – Singapore’s leading electronic payments provider, NETS, has teamed up with Asia’s leading communications provider, Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (SingTel), to announce the republic’s first Near Field Communication (NFC) trials, which includes a stored value wallet with Over-The-Air (OTA) capabilities. This covers wireless downloads and top-ups of stored value to NFC phones, making the trial a first in Asia.

Intel is moving to IT usage based segmentation for future Nehalem and Tukwila platforms in H2 2008. The current Itanium segment will be renamed as Mission Critical (MC), Enterprise MP to be known as Expandable (EX), Volume DP to be known as Efficient Performance (EP) and lastly Entry UP to be called Entry (EN). For MC segment, Itanium 2 platform (Itanium 2 9000 series + E8870 chipset) will be succeeded by Boxboro MC platform made up of Tukwila MC and Boxboro MC chipset. For EX segment, Caneland Platform (Xeon 7000 series + 7300 chipset) will be succeeded by 45nm Dunnington Nehalem based processor.

For EP 2-socket segment, Bensley platform (Xeon 5000 series + 5000P Blackford chipset) will be succeeded by Tylersburg EP Platform made up of Nehalem EP and Tylersburg-36D chipset and for EP single socket segment, Garlow platform (Xeon 3000 series + 3210 chipset) will be succeeded by Tylersburg EP Platform made up of Nehalem EP and Tylersburg-36S chipset. For EN segment, Cranberry Lake Platform (Xeon 5000 series + 5100 chipset) will be succeeded by Tylersburg-EN Platform made up of Nehalem EP and Tylersburg-24D chipset. All the chipsets will be featuring QuickPath technology, the next generation system interconnect used on Nehalem and Tukwila -based platforms which is commonly known as CSI.