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IBM and Cisco are continuing their collaboration on storage area networks, touting long-distance connectivity and cost savings through the new Fibre Channel Over IP protocol. The two companies claim the Cisco MDS 9000 IP Storage Services Module, which will be resold by IBM, will provide long-distanc...
Modeling and simulation have made momentous strides in recent years, and the military, medical science and other professions are on the verge of being able to use computing power to simulate reality for all kinds of applications. "Advances in both AI software and in networked computing have made vir...
SGI has announced a new workstation designed for visualization, multiprocessing and digital media. Called the Tezro, the workstation can be configured with up to four 700-MHz MIPS RISC processors, each with 4 MB of Level-2 cache. SGI designed the VPro chipset for handling advanced modeling, 3D light...
Hailed as the "next big thing" in computing during the 1980s, optical technology was supposed to revolutionize everything from networks to processors. But the pace of research cooled when materials used to make optical chips -- which convey light, or photons, rather than electrons, as in traditional...
Complementing its recent wireless push -- spearheaded by the company's new Centrino mobile chips -- Intel has announced it is developing fixed wireless silicon products designed to extend the reach of mobile networking. The Santa Clara, California-based chip giant said that the wireless broadband eq...