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- Radeon HD 5970 - ATI's killer graphics card
- You know what else is impressive?The foot long length of the thing.Alsothe noise level from the leaf-blower coolers to keep this thing from burning your house down.Seriously though, down for getting one, but not till a 3rd party gives us one with some custom cooling options. Although I guess they...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Purdue University Selects Intel Xeon Processors for "Steele" - A New 26.8-Teraflop Community HPC Cluster
- Purdue University wanted to capitalize on the purchasing power of several research groups to build a powerful shared cluster at a lower cost than multiple departmental clusters and select an industry-standard processing architecture that enables researchers to run a wide array of scientific code. Purdue's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing...
- Case studies 2008-11-01
- Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open Source
- Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open SourcePerhaps if you read what you wroteYou say regarding Wintel:"you'll find 2o FTEs an extremely conservative minimum just to keep the lights on."and then regarding Solaris:"you're going to be paying about ten people, four of whom you don't actually need every day"Your statement about doubling...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- NVIDIA responds to Intel's Larrabee GPU
- NVIDIA responds to Intel's Larrabee GPUCISC and RISC.I have wondered how Intel proposed to scale their CISC x86 instruction set up to more than a few cores. They can only do this by reducing the complexity of each core, and use less transistors. That means dropping all the clever stuff...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- The lowdown on Intel's Larrabee
- With Siggraph 2008 starting next week and IDF Intel Developer Forum on its heels, Intel is revealing more details of its mysterious Larrabee project. Intel has finally stated unequivocally that its "many-core" architecture will be used in desktop add-in boards for 3D gaming that compete directly with AMD and Nvidia...
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Multi-core Intel chips to be used in handhelds and supercomputers?
- Multi-core Intel chips to be used in handhelds and supercomputers?Wow, good news!First off, great article. Enjoyed reading it.Secondly, I have a system that is about three years old in general. Well, the box and mobo. A wonderful DouCore 3.0Mhz machine for testing purposes. I am running, at the time, an...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- The more things change
- The more things changeBe productive with a touch only computer ?"The potential is amazing - you can imagine was well as I can, I think, what a 12″ iPhone replacement for the traditional laptop could do for user productivity"You are talking of home user or of business user ?Because i...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
- IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPC
- Supercomputers are like muscle cars for IT: Few of us have one, but boy they are fun to look at. IBM on Tuesday touted that its supercomputer built for the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos National Lab is the most powerful system in the world. It...
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Why Linux won the embedded market?
- Why Linux won the embedded market?Name of the game is scalability ...That's were Linux shines in this respect. From tiny embedded systems all the way up to massive teraflop supercomputers, [b]that's[/b] scalability.The world doesn't owe its living to Microsoftand in the cut throat business world why on earth would any...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- Sun buys Cluster File Systems assets
- Sun Microsystems' open source moves continue to snowball. On Wednesday, Sun said it will acquire the majority of Cluster File Systems intellectual property and assets. This purchase includes the Lustre File System. So what's it mean? Sun adds a parallel file system provider to its stable,...
- Blog posts 2007-09-12
- What today's X-Box and PS3 Games mean for us
- To a much larger extent than most people understand, the fact that all three major games consoles are now on PPC presages change in general business computing. I'm not talking about the hardware or Wii's obvious potential for slideware - I'm thinking about the implications for software...
- Blog posts 2007-09-10
- Cell Broadband Engine, Teraflop Processors and Disruptive Technologies 2008-2012
- The Aerospace and Defense (A&D) industry is facing a unique opportunity to achieve breakthrough power in signal and data processing, security, simulation, modeling and surveillance with multi-core processors. To meet that demand, the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) architecture, a revolutionary new heterogeneous, multi-core chip architecture, promises new levels of efficiency...
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Sell magic
- Sell magicWrong again, MurphWe're buying AMD64 machines for two reasons:1) They run the software that we need for our business2) At over $100K/cpu license, the [b]last[/b] thin we need is massively parallel at lower per/cpu performance.Power6 would be better for (2) but runs up against (1). SPARC (which until...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-18
- How to get 66.6 TeraFlops for $600
- How to get 66.6 TeraFlops for $60066.6 Teraflops?Gives new meaning to "Fast as Hell.":)Is there any known or planned ...Development to make those same tools more ... how can say ... easy to use ?Like with some C/C++ libraries that could take advantage of those same processing power capabilities. And...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-01
- Intel's 80 core CPU that isn't
- Heres a bit from the EETimes report: Intels researchers have produced an 80-core chip that uses less energy than a quad-core processor and has teraflop performance capabilities. Researchers have built the prototype to study how best to make that many cores communicate with each other. Theyre...
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
- (Photos: Intel teraflop chip on board)
- (Photos: Intel teraflop chip on board)Tera-many, Flop-failureI wouldn't care if they have eighty cores priced at eighty bucks. You only get to shaft me once, dudes. Thanks AMD, you understand what customer service means...please don't forget it.
- Discussion threads 2007-02-13
- Intel's Teraflop Prototype
- Intel's Teraflop PrototypeWe need New Storage TechnologyALL present day storage operates in the giga region, maximum.We need NEW storage technology like Spintronics that operatesin the peta and tera region of data transfers and data storage capacity. Here is a company that will have symbiotic relationships with Vista and Intel's new...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-12
- Intel's Teraflop Prototype
- Intel is demonstrating a Teraflop chip at the International Solid States Circuits Conference in San Francisco today. The chip has 80 cores. See pictures The prototype isnt compatible with current Intel processors and it doesnt talk to external memory yet--so dont start dreaming of chipping your current machine...
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- Intel's 80-core concept car
- If Intel were to do a concept car ala General Motors or Toyota, an 80-core chip is exactly what it would build.The chipmaker’s Intel Research group, at this week’s International Solid-State Circuits Conference, unveiled more of the details behind its 80-core Teraflops Research Chip. The chip, which was first disclosed...
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- Photos: Intel teraflop chip on board
- Intel last week demonstrated an 80-core chip capable of producing 1 trillion floating-point operations per second, known as a teraflop.
- Image galleries 2007-02-11
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