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Researchers Introduce Energy-Efficient Supercomputer
cleantechnica.com — Researchers at Virginia Tech’s Center for High-End Computing Systems have a built the second version of a supercomputer called System G that runs at 22.8 TFlops. System G uses 325 Mac Pro computers that each have four two-core 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon processors and eight GB of RAM.More… (Hardware)
insaincain02Thanks to gamers, the desktop supercomputer arrives
computerworld.com — Nvidia today unveiled a workstation it calls the Telsa Personal Supercomputer at the annual Supercomputing 08 show here. The Tesla sports 960 cores, almost 4 teraflops of performance and costs less than $9,995. It achieves that speed and price by using four graphics processing units (GPUs), each of which has 240 cores. More… (Hardware)
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The Minority Report Computer Is Real
fastcompany.com — Prepare to be amazed. A group of visionaries has created a real-world, working version of the big-screen gestural interface that nerds everywhere drooled over in the 2002 Tom Cruise film.More… (Hardware)
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The Fastest Desktop PC Yet As Tested By CNET.
reviews.cnet.com — The Falcon Northwest Mach V (Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition), Fastest all-around desktop we've tested to date; first PC to hit 60 frames per second on our high-resolution Crysis test; pristine build quality. too bad it costs roughly the same as a year of undergraduate in-state tuition.More… (Hardware)
bakkouzMemory Cache for Dummies
dev.emcelettronica.com — Cache is a small and very fast type of memory. Cache, as a concept, means a type of buffer between the processor and the main memory.More… (Hardware)
divinedivaUSB 3.0 ready !!!
tgdaily.com — That did not take long to update (just 8 years). USB will get an update to 5 Gbps. More… (Hardware)
PeterNorton
Sweden's Ultra-Modern Underground Data Center
hothardware.com — Underneath Stockholm, deep in the bedrock exists a data center better than any high tech lair Hollywood could probably dream up. Bahnhof, one of Sweden's largest ISP's has created a bunker of high tech goodness that is surely to astound. More… (Hardware)
BrokebackCasket
USB 3.0 to Deliver a Tenfold Speed Increase
blog.wired.com — Tighten your seat belts. Data transfer is going into overdrive as the ubiquitous Universal Serial Bus, better known as USB, prepares to make a tenfold jump in speed and it will most likely mean the death of the competing standard known as FireWire.More… (Hardware)
Jolly81Your Mail in Rebate May Be In Jeopardy
enthusiast.hardocp.com — If you use mail in rebates for virtually any product in North America, you will want to read up on this and start making sure your money is safe.More… (Hardware)
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RED's Digital Still and Motion Camera System now official -
engadget.com — After a morning of drip-fed images, RED just went official with DSMC (Digital Stills and Motion Camera) System. The system starts with your choice of the professional Scarlet or "master professional" EPIC brains which can then be configured into about 2,251,799,813,685,248 possible camera configuration, RED only half-jokingly chides.More… (Hardware)
Scalper25GB in 70 seconds with USB 3.0
thefutureofthings.com — The USB 3.0 specification guarantees an increased performance of 10 times compared to the capabilities of the current USB 2.0, providing a bandwidth of 600 MB/s second. Devices employing USB 3.0 specifications are planned to be available to consumers in 2009 or 2010 and would be backwards compatible with USB 2.0 and USB 1.1. More… (Hardware)
Computer can crunch a quadrillion calculations per second
theage.com.au — How fast is the new supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory? If everyone in the world performed one mathematical calculation per second, it would take 650 years to do what this machine can do in one day..More… (Hardware)
anderzole
SGI Helps Keep U.S. Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Safe
hothardware.com — We all know SGI for making high-end workstations for rendering 3D animations for games and movies. But there is a very lucrative part of SGI feeds high-performance computing (HPC) solutions to the government and military. And now it looks like some of SGI's recent implementations are helping to keep the U.S.'s nuclear weapon stockpile in check. More… (Hardware)
granolajoe
The Simplest Explanation of RAID Ever.
fizzlechat.com — Ever want to explain RAID to someone? These images will make it easy as pie to grasp your brain around.More… (Hardware)
flashbangseer
Overclocked Radeon HD 4870 X2 Shoot-Out
hothardware.com — At launch, just about every Radeon HD 4870 X2 available at retail had the exact same features and specifications. But more recently, a few board partners have introduced factory overclocked variants that take the performance of what is already the fastest graphics card available up a notch. And yes, it's good for Crysis!More… (Hardware)
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