Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) on Monday will begin shipping a new, smaller member of its Altix family of technical computing servers, called the Altix 350.
IBM Corp. has a challenger in the race to deliver the world's fastest Linux-based supercomputer. A day after the U.S. company said it had received an order for what stands to be the fastest such machine, Japan's Fujitsu Ltd. has announced an order for a faster machine that it expects to put into service at about the same time.
Sandia National Laboratories has begun testing wireless LANs to determine whether they can meet the kind of rigorous security required for any U.S. Department of Energy facility.