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• MIT: Light speed now a bottleneck in fastest networks

  With global networks carrying complex time-sensitive data, the speed of light is actually becoming a significant source of latency, researchers have found.

• California's earthquake risk spurs supercomputing efforts

  NEW ORLEANS -- The rush to build more powerful supercomputers is part of a larger race to solve some of mankind's biggest problems and threats, and one person on the front line of that effort is Thomas Jordan, the director of the Southern California Earthquake Center.

• Microsoft turns Windows Azure into cloud-based supercomputer

  Windows HPC Server customers will soon be able to run high-performance computing workloads on Windows Azure, Microsoft is announcing at this week's SC10 supercomputing conference in New Orleans.

• Maximizing server uptime: Best practices

  In an IT world full of elusive goals, there's probably no target as slippery and generally elusive as server uptime.

• China unveils powerful, 2.5-petaflop supercomputer

  China is unveiling a new supercomputer on Thursday that incorporates thousands of graphics chips and can reach a sustained performance of 2.5 petaflops, making it one of the fastest systems in the world.

• Finding lost IT with RFID

  LAS VEGAS -- Vendors are increasingly trying to sell users on the idea that they need to stick RFID tags on IT equipment to keep track of it. Users are interested in this technology because they would much rather automate inventory tracking then go server-to-server with a bar code scanner and clipboard.

• HP branches out

  HP this week rolled out new and enhanced products and services across its networking, security and computing portfolios designed to improve the performance and delivery of application services to businesses.

• Microsoft new HPC Server adds SETI-like capabilities

  Microsoft today released an updated version of its Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 that can tap into compute resources throughout an enterprise as well as a cloud computing system.

• HP upgrades SANs, management software

  Hewlett-Packard today announced several product upgrades for its small and mid-sized customers, including a new version of its modular storage array with 10Gbit/sec. Ethernet ports.

• Mark Hurd may take job at Oracle, report says

  When Mark Hurd resigned unexpectedly from Hewlett-Packard last month he found an outspoken supporter in the form of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. It appears now that Hurd may end up working for Ellison, according to a report Saturday in the Wall Street Journal.

• Server sales post biggest jump since 2003, IDC says

  Worldwide server sales posted their biggest jump since 2003 during the second quarter as Hewlett-Packard outsold rival IBM to take the top spot among server vendors, IDC said Tuesday.

• Lenovo takes further steps into server market

  Lenovo has announced two new entry-level servers, continuing its effort to become a bigger player in the server market.

• Texas, IBM spar over IT contract

  The state of Texas may be preparing to terminate a contract signed with IBM four years ago to consolidate the state government's IT operations because of missed goals and excessive employee attrition.

• Dell warns of malware on server motherboards

  Dell is warning customers that "a small number" of its server motherboards may contain malicious software.

• HP says 10,000 cows can power 1,000 servers

  Reducing energy consumption in data centers, particularly with the prospect of a federal carbon tax, is pushing vendors to explore an ever-growing range of ideas.