Archive November 2008

Nvidia announces “personal supercomputer”
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Nvidia announces “personal supercomputer”

November 21, 2008 in Hardware

Hardware maker Nvidia has announced a new computer that has the power of a cluster of computers at a small fraction of the cost.

Nvidia, working with several partners, has developed the Tesla Personal Supercomputer, powered by a graphics processing unit based on Nvidia’s Cuda parallel computing architecture. Computers using the Tesla C1060 GPU processor will have 250 times the processing power of a typical PC workstation, enabling researchers to run complicated simulations, experiments and number crunching without sharing a supercomputing cluster, Nvidia said.

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Multicore Is Bad News For Supercomputers
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Multicore Is Bad News For Supercomputers

November 20, 2008 in Hardware

With no other way to improve the performance of processors further, chip makers have staked their future on putting more and more processor cores on the same chip. Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories, in New Mexico, have simulated future high-performance computers containing the 8-core, 16‑core, and 32-core microprocessors that chip makers say are the future of the industry. The results are distressing. Because of limited memory bandwidth and memory-management schemes that are poorly suited to sup

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Linus Torvalds’ old company acquired and gone
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Linus Torvalds’ old company acquired and gone

November 20, 2008 in Linux

Transmeta, once a sparkling startup that set out to beat Intel and AMD in mobile computing, announced that it will be acquired by Novafora. The company’s most famous employee, Linux inventor Linux Torvalds, kept the buzz and rumor mill about the company throughout its stealth phase alive and guaranteed a flashy technology announcement in early 2000

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New Virtualization News Blog
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New Virtualization News Blog

November 19, 2008 in Cool, Linux, Windows

Hi-Tech Squad have launched a sister site Virtualization News to cover the stories that make the news in the virtualization technology market.

It covers solutions like VMware, VirtualBox, Xen, KVM and others across the full range of operating systems including Windows, Linux, OS X and Unix.

We hope you like it!

15 reasons Macs are still better than Windows PCs
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15 reasons Macs are still better than Windows PCs

November 16, 2008 in Apple

Does Microsoft have the upper hand over OS X. Here’s 15 reasons why it doesn’t.


  • 1. Reliable sleep mode.
  • 2. Extremely fast boot times.
  • 3. Apple uses good quality parts.
  • 4. Less blinking lights.
  • 5. OS X + Windows is better than just Windows.
  • 6. Easier to troubleshoot Macs.
  • 7. A culture of good quality community software.
  • 8. More useful apps out of the box.
  • 9. Neat and contained system settings.
  • 10. Apple doesn’t load the system up with rubbish.
  • 11. Tonnes of small reasons make Mac OS X better including every version of OS X has sophisticated screenshot capability built in.
  • 12. Still no need for additional security software.
  • 13. Apple seems largely to be lameness free.
  • 14. Power of the Linux command line with Photoshop CS4
  • 15. File sharing is much easier.

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