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The Last Supper Will Travel The Internet At 16 Billion Pixels

The Last Supper Will Travel The Internet At 16 Billion Pixels

Technology / Other

created Oct 26, 2007 | popularity 3 / 5 (92) | comments 10

HAL 9000 will send The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci soaring through the Internet on October 27, 2007 with a high density view of 16 billion pixels. The time given for the launch is 9:30 A.M. Central European ...


AMD 2009 Desktop Platforms

AMD Phenom II Quad Core Overclocked to 6.3Ghz

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 24, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (69) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- AMD has been showing off their soon to be released 45nm "Deneb" desktop chips which have been overclocked to 6.3Ghz. Unless you can get your hands on some liquid nitrogen, don´t expect to ...


AMD Stream Processor First to Break 1 Teraflop Barrier

AMD Stream Processor First to Break 1 Teraflop Barrier

Electronics / Hardware

created Jun 16, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (36) | comments 5

At the International Supercomputing Conference, AMD today introduced its next-generation stream processor, the AMD FireStream 9250, specifically designed to accelerate critical algorithms in high-performance ...


PS3GRID

Gamers use PS3s to do biomedical research

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 18, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (36) | comments 2

It's kind of like SETI@home, but with PS3s instead of PCs and molecules instead of aliens. In the latest volunteer scientist program, called PS3GRID, anyone who owns a Sony PlayStation3 can donate their system´s ...


Bringing Second Life to life: Researchers create character with reasoning abilities of a child

Bringing Second Life To Life: Researchers Create Character With Reasoning Abilities of a Child

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 10, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (37) | comments 7

Troy, N.Y. – Today’s video games and online virtual worlds give users the freedom to create characters in the digital domain that look and seem more human than ever before. But despite having your hair, your ...


32nm SRAM with High-K/Metal Gate

IBM Alliances Announce Advancement in High-K/Metal Gate Technology

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 14, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (34) | comments 0

IBM and its joint development partners -- AMD, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Freescale, Infineon, and Samsung -- announced an innovative approach to speed the implementation of a breakthrough material ...


Red Storm upgrade lifts Sandia supercomputer to 2nd in world, but 1st in scalability

Red Storm upgrade lifts Sandia supercomputer to 2nd in world, but 1st in scalability, say researchers

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 15, 2006 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (39) | comments 0

A $15 million upgrade to Sandia’s Red Storm computer has increased its peak speed from 41.5 to 124.4 teraflops in a computing terrain in which a single teraflop was a big deal only 6 years ago.


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AMD Demonstrates Accelerated Computing Solution that Breaks Teraflop Barrier

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 01, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (29) | comments 0

AMD today showcased a single-system, Accelerated Computing platform that breaks the teraflop computing barrier. Organizations are ultimately expected to be able to apply this technology to a wide range of scientific, ...


Physician revolutionizes gene research

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 26, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 3

A dramatic new study published in the most recent issue of Nature questions some of the mechanisms underlying a new class of drugs based on Nobel Prize-winning work designed to fight diseases ranging from macular degeneration to dia ...


Return-oriented Programming Shows Limits of Software Defenses

Good code, bad computations: A computer security gray area

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 27, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (25) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you want to make sure your computer or server is not tricked into undertaking malicious or undesirable behavior, it's not enough to keep bad code out of the system.


Researchers Build World's Smallest SRAM Memory Cell

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 18, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (24) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM and its development partners -- AMD, Freescale, STMicroelectronics, Toshiba and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) -- today announced the first working static random access memory ...


Roadrunner supercomputer puts research at a new scale

Roadrunner supercomputer puts research at a new scale

Electronics / Hardware

created Jun 12, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 1

Less than a week after Los Alamos National Laboratory's Roadrunner supercomputer began operating at world-record petaflop/s data-processing speeds, Los Alamos researchers are already using the computer to ...


'Not so fast, supercomputers,' say software programmers

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 22, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (25) | comments 2

The fastest of the fastest computers - supercomputers used at national research centers, research universities and major corporations - will soon gain even more performance by taking advantage of multicore computing.


AMD, Partners Produce Test Chip Using EUV Lithography

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 26, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (22) | comments 4

AMD, working together with its research partner, IBM, announced it has produced a working test chip utilizing Extreme Ultra-Violet (EUV) lithography for the critical first layer of metal connections across the entire chip. ...


AMD Releases New Desktop Processors

AMD Releases New Desktop Processors

Electronics / Hardware

created Feb 20, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 0

AMD today introduced desktop processors designed for users seeking the ultimate in energy-conscious or high-performance computing.