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HP Blades Helping Make Happy Feet 2 and Mad Max 4

Published on March 26, 2010 By Kevin Houston

Chalk yet another win up for HP.  It was reported last week on www.itnews.com.au that Digital production house Dr. D. Studios is in the early stages of building a supercomputer grid cluster for the rendering of the animated feature film Happy Feet 2 and visual effects in Fury Road the long-anticipated fourth film in the Mad [...]

Cisco Takes Top 8 Core VMware VMmark Server Position

Published on February 5, 2010 By Kevin Houston

Cisco is getting some (more) recognition with their UCS blade server product, as they recently achieved the top position for “8 Core Server” on VMware’s VMmark benchmark tool.  VMmark is the industry’s first (and only credible) virtualization benchmark for x86-based computers.  According to the VMmark website, the Cisco UCS B200 blade server reached a score of 25.06 @ [...]