SiCortex, which specializes in energy-efficient systems for high-performance computing, shut down its engineering operations Wednesday and is selling its assets.
Linden Lab will expand the back-end for Second Life to the East Coast, adding server infrastructure at the NAP of the Capital Region, a large data center operated by Terremark Worldwide (TMRK) in Culpeper, Virginia.
Wolfram Alpha's supercomputer-backed infrastructure hasn't performed well in traffic load tests, and this evening's live launch of the "knowledge engine" service will likely be postponed.
The new Wolfram Alpha "knowledge engine" will run on infrastructure spread across five data centers, featuring two supercomputers, and be able to handle 175 million queries a day at launch, the company said.
The new Wolfram Alpha "knowledge engine" will run on infrastructure spread across five data centers, featuring two supercomputers, and be able to handle 175 million queries a day at launch, the company said.
The new Wolfram Alpha "knowledge engine" will run on infrastructure spread across five data centers, featuring two supercomputers, and be able to handle 175 million queries a day at launch, the company said.
Despite IT budget cuts, it's still possible to get approval for virtualization projects that can transform your IT operations, analyst Barb Goldworm said at last week's Blade Systems Insight conference.
Linden Labs is said to be shopping for high-density space in the United Kingdom to house an expansion of its infrastructure for Second Life virtual world.
Hosting gaming infrastructure is becoming a big business, as was made clear by some of the custom data center marketing seen at the Game Developers Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.