Friday, March 23, 2007
Considering that ATI and NVIDIA don't seem to be making any substantial strides in reducing the amount of energy required to run their products, it's a tad surprising to hear of an entire supercomputer running a bit leaner than the competition. Hoping on the ever-growing green bandwagon, University of Edinburgh developers are at it again, this time crafting an uber-speedy machine that's reportedly "ten times more energy efficient and up to 300 times faster than its traditional equivalents." Based on field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), the chips are not only very difficult to program, but they can currently only be used "to perform very specific tasks." Of course, the creators are more interested in the extreme number crunching and power saving abilities than anything else, and while no commercial uses have been identified just yet, the machines could purportedly be used in fields such as "drug design, defense and seismology."
[Via CNET]
thin-shaped light weight which uses LED back light
2007.3.20 The liquid crystal display product for note PC of the thin-shaped light weight which uses LED back light About line-up
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26cm (10.4 types) | 1024×768/XGA | 120 | 240 | 2.4 |
31cm (12.1 types) | 1024×768/XGA | 135 | 300 | 3.1 |
23cm (8.9 types) | 1280×768/WXGA | 130 | 200 | 2.9 |
27cm (10.6 types) | 1280×768/WXGA | 150 | 300 | 2.8 |
28cm (11.1 types) | 1366×768/WXGA+ | 146 | 240 | 3.7 |
31cm (12.1 types) | 1280×800/WXGA | 183 | 300 | 3.5 |
34cm (13.3 types) | 1280×800/WXGA | 225 | 300 | 4.0 |
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Posted by Augustine at 10:46 PM
Alaska Department of Revenue vaporizes $38 billion account
Posted Mar 22nd 2007 5:21AM by Darren Murph Filed under: Desktops, Storage
The Last Frontier is no stranger to computer failure on a noteworthy scale, but the latest mishap far exceeds the severity of yet another e-voting failure. A quick-fingered technician at the Alaska Department of Revenue reformatted a hard drive while handling "routine maintenance work" that contained an account worth $38 billion -- yeah, with a B. To make matters exponentially worse, he / she also deleted the backup drive for reasons unbeknownst to mere men, and we can probably assume that at least a few individuals in the department suffered a near-heart attack when they found the backup tapes completely unreadable. The only remaining proof of the oil-funded account was in 300 boxes of paperwork, which had to be digitized yet again by staff members working incredibly long hours completing work that had just been done a few months earlier. Incredibly, no one was reportedly punished for the incident, and while the recovery efforts were actually finished in just six painstaking weeks, the damage inflicted by a few careless keystrokes totaled $220,700 in excess labor costs. Ouch.
[Via Fark]
Posted by Augustine at 10:42 PM
Tyan's 40 CPU Core Personal Supercomputer -- now shipping
Posted Mar 22nd 2007 9:43AM by Thomas Ricker Filed under: Desktops, Misc. Gadgets
Sure, you probably don't currently have a need for 256 gigaflops of processing power in your home. Rest assured, you will -- just as certain as the day when robots will care for our children and decorate our Christmas trees. So go 'head, raid the education fund and future proof your domicile by picking up a TYANPSC T-650 series computer from Tyan -- "PSC," as in Personal SuperComputer. Prices start at just $20,000 for a 40 CPU Core (10x quad-core Intel Xeons) system configurable with up to 60GB of RAM and a power draw of just 15A. And it's "portable" in the same way a refrigerator is portable: it has wheels. Who knows, maybe you can put those spare cycles to use by solving the traveling salesman problem. Better yet, join Engadget's Folding@Home team for some hardcore protein folding fun.
[Via 64-bit-computers]
Posted by Augustine at 10:39 PM
SilverBrook Designing World's Fastest Printer
SilverBrook may be a no-name in the world of tech (they've never released a single product), but all that can change if this baby comes to fruition—it's a super-fast "memjet" printer capable of shooting out two pages per second. Memjet refers to the technology behind the printer, which is a cousin of the inkjet. The difference is that this memjet printer uses a print head that spans the width of a standard-size page. The printer is expected to debut for $200. Smells like vaporware, but I hope it's not. – Louis Ramirez
Posted by Augustine at 10:37 PM
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