Comparing them on the Intel's site, it seems that X5670 is designed for multi-processor servers and workstations, while the W series is for single-processor systems. The W has only one QPI link and ...

Multiprocessor system design gets more complex as new technologies like InfiniBand and HyperTransport come online. System designers have a number of choices when it comes to multiprocessor system ...

This has probably been brought up before (maybe many times) but I couldn't find it under the search.<P>So basically, are there any instances when having dual CPUs is capable of being over twice as ...

Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. The planned move further blurs the distinction ...

Chipmaker announces that customers can get the long-delayed quad-core Opteron processor in systems from HP as well as other providers. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including ...

Hardware/software co-design has been a goal for several decades, but success has been limited. More recently, progress has been made in optimizing a processor as well as the addition of accelerators ...