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PALO ALTO, Calif., Sep. 6, 2007 - HP today enhanced its lineup of multi-processor-based server systems built to improve performance and cut costs. Based on the new Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 7300 series, these energy-efficient servers are designed for customers running data-intensive business applications such as databases, business intelligence, enterprise resource planning and large mail and messaging platforms in virtualized environments. The rack-based HP ProLiant DL580 G5 server and the HP ProLiant BL680c G5, HP's first four processor (4P) quad-core server blade, offer increased performance with double the number of processor cores. In addition, the DL580 G5 has double the memory capacity of its predecessor. These enhancements offer customers more compute power and memory to improve the performance of the applications that run their business. "HP has a long history of bringing innovative server platforms to market on time," said James Mouton, senior vice president and general manager, Industry Standard Servers, HP. "These systems allow customers to meet their rapidly growing virtualization and energy-efficiency needs." Fine-tuned for virtualization and energy efficiency The HP ProLiant DL580 G5 is a 4P-based server ideal for virtualization and mission-critical data center deployments. The processor performance and large memory capacity of the DL580 G5 can help improve staff productivity through fewer, yet more powerful, servers to manage with better performing applications. The HP ProLiant BL680c G5 is also built for performance by using up to four Intel 7300 series processors and has a large memory capacity for data-intensive applications. The BL680c G5 is part of the HP BladeSystem portfolio, which was specifically designed for virtualization, energy-efficiency and ease of deployment and management. "Using Intel Xeon 7300 series quad-core processors, HP ProLiant servers are delivering unprecedented performance and energy efficiency," said Tom Kilroy,
The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.4. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.2.X branch with over 120 various bug fixes in addition to resolving several low priority security bugs. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release. Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.4: Fixed a floating point exception inside wordwrap() (Reported by Mattias Bengtsson) Fixed several integer overflows inside the GD extension (Reported by Mattias Bengtsson) Fixed size calculation in chunk_split() (Reported by Gerhard Wagner) Fixed integer overflow in str[c]spn(). (Reported by Mattias Bengtsson) Fixed money_format() not to accept multiple %i or %n tokens. (Reported by Stanislav Malyshev) Fixed zend_alter_ini_entry() memory_limit interruption vulnerability. (Reported by Stefan Esser) Fixed INFILE LOCAL option handling with MySQL extensions not to be allowed when open_basedir or safe_mode is active. (Reported by Mattias Bengtsson) Fixed session.save_path and error_log values to be checked against open_basedir and safe_mode (CVE-2007-3378) (Reported by Maksymilian Arciemowicz) Fixed a possible invalid read in glob() win32 implementation (CVE-2007-3806) (Reported by shinnai) Fixed a possible buffer overflow in php_openssl_make_REQ (Reported by zatanzlatan at hotbrev dot com) Fixed an open_basedir bypass inside glob() function (Reported by dr at peytz dot dk) Fixed a possible open_basedir bypass inside session extension when the session file is a symlink (Reported by c dot i dot morris at durham dot ac dot uk) Improved fix for MOPB-03-2007. Corrected fix for CVE-2007-2872. Key enhancements in PHP 5.2.4 include: Upgraded PCRE to version 7.2 Added persistent connection status checker to pdo_pgsql. Fixed oci8 and PDO_OCI extensions to allow configuring with Oracle 11g client libraries. Fixed bug #41831 (pdo_sqlite prepared statements convert resources to strings). Fixed bug #41770 (SSL: fatal protocol
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ARMONK, NY - 29 Aug 2007: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced a new version of the breakthrough computing system based on the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) -- the IBM BladeCenter® QS21 -- that delivers twice the memory, density and I/O throughput as well as enhances power efficiency and the ability to work with existing IT infrastructure for both current and new customers. Also announced today is the IBM Software Development Kit (SDK) for Multicore Acceleration Version 3.0 -- the cornerstone of the Cell/B.E. software ecosystem and developer enablement program. The IBM BladeCenter® QS21 is the width of one blade computing system, allowing a customer to fit a maximum of 14 IBM BladeCenter® QS21's per BladeCenter chassis as opposed to only seven with the previous version -- effectively doubling the compute density. As well the QS21 offers an additional two gigabytes of I/O buffer memory, a feature that was not available on the previous version of the product. The I/O throughput of the IBM BladeCenter® QS21 -- a measurement of the ability for data to travel in and out of the system -- supports 16 lanes of single data rate Infiniband. As part of an announcment of new Cell/B.E.-based technologies -- including a new version of the Cell/B.E.-based Blade System -- IBM today made available a technology demonstration program called the 'Interactive Ray Tracer' (iRT). This application renders -- in real-time -- photorealistic images from a complex 3D scene... demonstrating the capabilities of the Cell/B.E. processor. These new products -- available in October -- will bring the multicore acceleration technology made possible by the Cell/B.E. processor to clients and developers in a wide range of industries, including those that create and run highly visual, graphic and immersive, real-time applications such as 3D rendering, compression, and encryption. Multicore acceleration is the ability to harness the power of multiple computing cores to manage these specific types of app