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Nvidia: Next big supercomputer player?

Nvidia unveiled its next-generation graphics processing unit GPU architecture, dubbed Fermi, and announced a key supercomputing win with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The takeaway: Graphics and visualization are becoming key to scientific discoveries. And Nvidia could be a major player. Oak Ridge's supercomputer will be used...

Tags: Supercomputer, NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Supercomputing, GPU, Fermi, Oak Ridge, CNET News, JMP Securities Alex Gauna, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-01

Kindle Economics

Kindle EconomicsMainstreamI own a kindle and I love it. However, at it's current price point it is only appropriate for a) people who read tons of books and can justify the purchase I know of very few people who read so avidly or b) people with a lot of disposable...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Notebooks, Fermi, Kindle Economics, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2008-11-16

Is using less energy actually green?

Is using less energy actually green?It's counter-intuitivebut sounds about right. Any time the government gets involved in markets - they tend to stagnate. Having a monopoly means never having to upgrade - just keep charging the same amount or more money, and your profits go up (since there is no...

Tags: Fermi

Discussion threads 2007-09-14

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Is Nvidia planning to add X86 compatibility to its chipsets?

I hope soNVIDIA with x86-64 technology would be Next Big ThingTM, although I'd rather see a new architecture replace the aging x86. 64-bit is just a tack-on feature set of x86. I'd rather see something in line with IA64 from NVIDIA to shake up Intel. I'm sure...

Tags: Processors, Video Decoding, chipset, Intel x86, CPU, NVidia Corp., Intel Corp., GPU, graphics, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

New York AG files antitrust charges against Intel; alleges bribery, coercion

Normally I'd say this is just another NY AG trying to run for higher officebut this seems to have legs. I hope Intel didn't do it - but if they did, they need to be repremanded.Great to see some justice against InhellI can hardly wait to see the M$...

Tags: Video cards, Corporate law, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., antitrust, graphics

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Apple's bumper crop of fall hardware, reviewed

Where is the love for Nvidia?A number of questions come up:Why not Nvidia chipsets anymore? Why did they go back to Intel for core logic when they slammed them in a previous tech show for power management concerns?What happened to added graphics options on the Mac Pro? Where...

Tags: Mice, Servers, Desktops, hardware, Mini, GT 120, NVidia Corp., server, mouse, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Magic Mouse

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

I haven't had a good rant recently

However, a colleague sent me this quote from CNN.com this morning note that the more grievous errors have since been corrected: "Somehow they have managed to get thousands of gigantic magnets, get them arranged so that they're within a few microns of where they're supposed to be,...

Tags: Zero, Blogging, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-04-28

Anti-LHC lawsuit lands in legal black hole

A lame-brain lawsuit to stop the Large Hadron Collider is dead. U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor has dismissed the suit because U.S. courts have no jurisdiction over the world's biggest atom-smasher based in Switzerland and France and built by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research,...

Tags: Black Hole, Lawsuit, CERN, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-01

From eco-warrior to nuclear champion

From eco-warrior to nuclear championNuclear waste hysteriaIs probably the biggest challenge facing nuclear power. And it all stems from the fact that people have been misled into thinking radiation is more dangerous than it is.The really long-term radioactive stuff is so low-level, it's more dangerous to live in North Dakota.Waste...

Tags: Waste Disposal, nuclear energy, Greenpeace, nuclear champion

Discussion threads 2008-01-31

We live in the conversation age and not the thinking age

Internet 1.0 was about the information age, now with Internet 2.0, we live in the conversation age. Conversation overload is our new malady, in the same way information overload tortured us ten years ago. Now we have both. Our communications technologies and numerous platforms...

Tags: Conversation, Portland, Site, Serendipity, Entrepreneurship, Internet, E-mail, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Online Communications, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-01-24

Note to publishers: Make your CDs platform-independent!

Note to publishers: Make your CDs platform-independent!Publishing economics[i]why not just include a rich Internet application on the disk? Or files to install on a web server? Or straight HTML, Javascript, etc., that can be run on any CD-ROM, whether it's installed on a Mac, Linux box, or a brand new...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Web browsers, Linux, Microsoft Windows, CD, Windows App, Web browser

Discussion threads 2007-08-15

The future of virtual worlds

The future of virtual worldsThe Future Looks Good Optimystical HeightsI am a huge long time resident of the Active Worlds virtual Universe, helping artisans establish a virtual presence on the internet through the building of virtual galleries and studios on the Artshighway.com Artshiway in AW. I also tour virtual worlds...

Tags: virtual world, virtual reality

Discussion threads 2007-08-01

Dreaming up a new defence contractor

Dreaming up a new defence contractorPattern recognition fails when the pattern is changed.Streamers can confuse some tracking missiles.Suppose something similar here, a way to "blur" the surface signal. That could be a disguise, could be used to send the hunters in the wrong direction.A surface pattern isn't inherent in...

Tags: pattern recognition, satellite, submarine, Murph

Discussion threads 2007-05-22

Politics, Tech, ET, and Global Warming

A talkback contributor on my August 4th story pretending that Scott McNealy's comments about Intel space heaters applied to the global warming issue told me rather nicely to "Keep the tech, lose the politics, please." It's good advice, but impossible to accept because politics and technology are inextricably linked and...

Tags: global warming

Blog posts 2005-08-17

The college library of tomorrow

The college library of tomorrowThe only problem is...Reading large passages of text on a computer screen is a pain. Yeah, it's handy to have search functions on text if you're looking for a particular passage, but if you want to actually read the book, staring at your screen gets...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Books, longevity, Fahrenheit 451, college library, computer, Reprint

Discussion threads 2005-08-03

So where are they?

So where are they?A difficult quandryIn order to understand the answer to Fermi's question, you need a working model of the human mind. The search for a mind model is problematic - the closer you get to defining human thought - the more resistance you get from so-called experts. Its...

Tags: OK Here, genius, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

Discussion threads 2005-07-12

Stupid AppleScript Games X 1.6 (Mac)

Fifteen AppleScript games (yes, games made with AppleScript!) are included in this archive: Blackjack, Echo, Find the Cheese, Formation, War, Guess the Number, Rock-Paper-AppleScript, Tic-Tac-Toe, Hangman, Scrambler, Matcher, Pico-Fermi-Bagels, Poker, Crazy Eights, and Eight Ball. Most of these games are single player, while some are no-player Mac plays only and...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, AppleScript, Games, Scripting Languages, Personal Technology, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2003-07-28

Stupid AppleScript Games 1.5.1 (Mac)

Thirteen AppleScript games (yes, games made with AppleScript!) are included in this archive: Blackjack, Echo, War, Guess the Number, Rock-Paper-AppleScript, Tic-Tac-Toe, Hangman, Scrambler, Matcher, Pico-Fermi-Bagels, Poker, Crazy Eights, and Eight Ball. Most of these games are single player, while some are no-player Mac plays only and some are two-player. Games...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, AppleScript, Games, Scripting Languages, Personal Technology, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2002-06-10

Bagels 1.0 (Mobile)

A number guessing game that tests your logic skills. You must guess a four digit number in which the digits do not repeat. For each guess, you will receive a clue as to how good your guess was: - pico: one digit was correct but not in the correct position...

Tags: Mobile, Guess, Darin Franklin, Games, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2001-08-22