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Big Linux systems plot climate change, simulate nuclear explosions, and secure bragging rights. But IT customers are starting to find that high-performance computing technologies make a difference in the real world, from clustered processing to data center greening.

Details of the first few processors belonging to Intel's latest Centrino 2 mobile platform have been leaked on a PC maker's Web site, preempting Intel's official launch of the platform at the middle of this year.

Biometric e-passports will be issued to 23 million Taiwan citizens by the second half of 2008, under the new National Identity System (NIS) developed by Hewlett-Packard.

Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday unveiled its first blade server based on Intel's Itanium 2 processor, allowing customers to run HP-UX on one of the company's blade servers for the first time.

NTT DoCoMo, Japan's biggest mobile phone carrier, expects to complete on Wednesday a US$3 million investment in Linux software development company MontaVista Software, a DoCoMo spokeswoman said.

More details about the computer code stolen from Cisco Systems surfaced on Tuesday, including new samples of the source code and information on how the code was distributed, four days after a Russian Web site reported news of the theft and posted sample code files to support the claim.

Intel on Monday will unveil two new Itanium 2 processors designed for both dual-processor and high-density blade or rack-mount servers.

IBM Corp. plans to announce Monday two new servers based on Intel Corp.'s new Itanium 2 processor, known by its Madison code name, IBM said Friday. The company will also provide details on five servers based on new Intel Xeon MP and Xeon DP processors, it said.

Intel will discuss the next-generation of its Itanium processor family and outline techniques developed for future integrated circuits at the International Solid State Circuits Conference this week in San Francisco.

Intel will reveal details about its third-generation Itanium server processor, which will offer a 1.5GHz clock speed, at a conference sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Responding to criticism over the performance of the first members of Intel Corp.'s 64-bit Itanium processor family, a company executive said the development of the chip family was in line with Intel's expectations and detailed development work now underway on future Itanium chips scheduled for release in the coming years.