Super Micro Computer announced availability of its dual Intel(R) Xeon(R) 5500 Series (Nehalem) processor-based 7046GT-TRF SuperWorkstations. These powerful SuperWorkstations are the first to support four NVIDIA Tesla C1060 GPUs as well as three additional PCI-e add-on cards for high-bandwidth I/O. These new systems also feature redundant Gold Level (93%+ efficiency) 1400-watt power supplies and quiet operation making them ideal for both enterprise and office supercomputing applications.

Convey Computer Corporation is changing the game with its hybrid-core computing – a technology designed to help high-performance computers run faster while significantly reducing the energy they use. THe company announced recently it has closed $24.15 million in Series B financing. Additionally, the company announced two new board members with extensive technology experience: Jiong Ma, Ph.D., of Braemar Energy Ventures (www.braemarenergy.com) and Joshua Ruch of Rho Ventures (www.rho.com).

Hitachi Server Group unveiled BladeSymphony® 2000, its new high-end, enterprise-class blade server, together with major enhancements and new blades for its mid-range BladeSymphony® 320 system. For organizations that are interested in consolidating infrastructure, optimizing workloads, and reducing the cost, risk, and complexity of IT, today’s announcement represents a significant advance.

FastScale Technology announced the introduction of FastScale Stack Manager™ Workgroup Edition, a new product that enables enterprise IT and engineering teams to easily create, optimize and manage logical servers for deployment in physical, virtual or cloud environments. Logical servers enable a ‘build once, deploy anywhere’ methodology to support complex, dynamic and hybrid server infrastructure and allow a consistent approach to creating and managing physical and virtual machines throughout server lifecycles.

In an attempt to go against Intel's Nehalem processors, AMD announced availability of the world’s first six-core server processor with Direct Connect Architecture for two-, four- and eight-socket servers. Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processors (code-named “Istanbul”) extend AMD’s commitment to offering server customers superior value at every price point with unmatched platform flexibility.