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More than powerful: German research computer QPACE is the most energy efficient in the world

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Nov 20, 2009 | not rated yet | 1

At the 2009 Supercomputing Conference in Portland, Oregon, the high-performance computer QPACE (QCD Parallel Computing on the Cell) was recognized today as the most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world.

Oak Ridge 'Jaguar' supercomputer is World's fastest

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Nov 16, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (13) | 2

An upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the Department of Energy has made the "Jaguar" supercomputer the world's fastest. Located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Jaguar is ...

New NVIDIA Tesla GPUs Reduce Cost Of Supercomputing By A Factor Of 10

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Nov 16, 2009 | 4 / 5 (5) | 1

NVIDIA Corporation today unveiled the Tesla 20-series of parallel processors for the high performance computing (HPC) market, based on its new generation CUDA processor architecture, codenamed "Fermi".

Acer goes deep with 3-D laptop for gaming, movies

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Oct 21, 2009 | 2.8 / 5 (5) | 0

(AP) -- With the launch of Windows 7 this week, PC makers are trying some new things, including laptops with touch screens. Acer Inc. is going further - introducing a laptop with a 3-D screen.

AMD Announces Eight New Athlon II Processors

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Oct 20, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (16) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- AMD announced today eight new, low cost, Athlon II processors to their Athlon II processor family.

SanDisk Ships Flash Memory Cards With 64 Gigabit X4 NAND Technology

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Oct 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (10) | 0

SanDisk announced it has begun production shipments of flash memory cards based on the company's advanced X4 flash memory technology. This innovative new technology holds four bits of data in each memory cell, ...

Researchers save electricity with low-power processors and flash memory

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Oct 14, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (8) | 0

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh (ILP) have combined low-power, embedded processors typically used in netbooks with flash memory to create a server architecture that is fast, but far more ...

Mobile device makers want common earphone plugs

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Oct 08, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

An international trade group representing wireless device makers has announced it was backing a drive to standardize audio and USB plugs for laptops and other mobile gadgets.

Sony Intros New Touch-Screen HD PC/TV

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Oct 08, 2009 | 1 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sony today unveiled its new touch-enabled, multi-media machine— the VAIO L Touch HD PC/TV.

Kraken becomes first academic machine to achieve petaflop

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Oct 08, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

The National Institute for Computational Sciences' (NICS's) Cray XT5 supercomputer—Kraken—has been upgraded to become the first academic system to surpass a thousand trillion calculations a second, or one ...

There's no perfect way to back up your hard drive

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Oct 07, 2009 | 1 / 5 (4) | 3

If there's one thing to keep in mind about computers, it's this: Hard drives fail. I relearned that lesson recently when one of my laptop's external hard drives stopped working and then my 4-year-old iPod died.

Toshiba Unveils the CELL REGZA 55X1, First LCD TV Integrating the Cell Broadband Engine

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Oct 05, 2009 | 1.5 / 5 (2) | 1

Toshiba Corporation today unveiled the future of home entertainment, the CELL REGZA 55X1.

NVIDIA Unveils Next Generation CUDA GPU Architecture -- Codenamed 'Fermi'

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Oct 01, 2009 | 3.6 / 5 (5) | 0

NVIDIA Corp. today introduced its next generation CUDA GPU architecture, codenamed "Fermi". An entirely new ground-up design, the "Fermi" architecture is the foundation for the world’s first computational graphics processing ...

Predictive simulation successes on Dawn supercomputer

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Sep 30, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 500-teraFLOPS Advanced Simulation and Computing program's Sequoia Initial Delivery System (Dawn), an IBM machine of the same lineage as BlueGene/L, has immediately proved itself useful ...

NXP Introduces Intelligent Switches Supporting HDMI 1.4

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Sep 30, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

NXP Semiconductors today unveiled intelligent switches supporting the new HDMI 1.4 specification released in June 2009.

ASUS Unveils First TUF Series Motherboard

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Sep 29, 2009 | 3.1 / 5 (7) | 2

ASUS today unveiled the first motherboard in its newly-developed "TUF" (The Ultimate Force) Series, the SABERTOOTH 55i.

Intel's Atom CE 4100 SoC Will Transform Internet TV (w/ Video)

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Sep 25, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (12) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the IDF event, in Santa Clara, California, Intel announced the debut of their newest System-on-Chip (SoC), the Intel Atom processor CE4100. The CE4100 SoC is designed exclusively to facilitate ...

Intel Unveils Fastest Laptop Chips Ever With the New Intel Core i7 Mobile Processor

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Sep 23, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (5) | 1

Intel Corporation introduced its revolutionary Intel Core i7 Mobile Processor and Intel Core i7 Mobile Processor Extreme Edition today, bringing Intel’s award-winning and super-fast Nehalem microarchitecture ...