comp.sys.super, comp.arch, alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips, alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 IBM to build Opteron-Cell hybrid supercomputer of 1 PetaFlop performance IBM to build Opteron-Cell hybrid supercomputer of 1 PetaFlop performance

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6112439.html IBM to build Opteron-Cell hybrid supercomputer By Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com Published on ZDNet News: September 5, 2006, 1:12 PM PT IBM has won a bid to build a supercomputer called Roadrunner that will include not just conventional Opteron...

"Microsoft is going to keep the Xbox 360 platform around until long after the third generation "Xbox 720" comes out. There is almost no possibility of them canning the Xbox project since they moved into a big new office and have been hiring people like...

Intel's Larrabee GPU based on secret Pentagon tech, sorta By Jon Stokes In a recent interview with German tech site heise.de, Intel's Pat Gelsinger let slip* there's some interesting information that I've been sitting on since last year, but haven't published: the processor cores that make up...

NVidia, Intel no longer appear to be prospective partners By Michael Hatamoto, BetaNews April 11, 2008, 5:42 PM During an analyst meeting yesterday, the head of NVidia stated clearly that NVidia is a GPU company and not a semiconductor manufacturer, destroying any flicker of hope that it and Intel...

http://www.hardspell.com/english/doc/showcont.asp?news_id=1428 NVIDIA 9800 Series Coming Soon Date: 2007-9-17 The GeForce 9800 series of graphics processing units, GPUs for short, are based on the video processing chip codenamed G92 that is built by the Taiwanese contractor TSMC, using the 65...

Larrabee's Rasterisation Focus Confirmed Wednesday 23rd April 2008, 08:33:00 PM, written by TeamB3D For many months, researchers and marketing fanatics at Intel have been heralding the upcoming 'raytracing revolution', claiming rasterisation has run out of steam. So it is refreshing to hear...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20070726232054.html AMD Promises "DirectX 10+" Graphics Chips Next Year. by Anton Shilov Advanced Micro Devices said on Thursday that even though its ATI Radeon HD 2000-series graphics chips family has experienced massive

65nm 'Falcon' X360 50% cheaper to manufacture - future 45nm X360 could result in a smaller redesigned Xbox360 ala PSOne & PSTwo http://tinyurl.com/2qwggu I'm sure everyone is well aware of the issues regarding the 360's internal design shortcomings and the problems that it can...

AMD is preparing to drop its newest GPU, codenamed RV770 Rumours involving the next 3D chip from AMD's graphics division ATI are reaching critical mass. The new GPU, codenamed RV770 and expected to be marketed as the Radeon 4800 series, promises to be the fastest GPU ever. It could be unveiled in...

http://www.beyond3d.com/content/news/230 NVIDIA confirms Next-Gen close to 1TFlop in 4Q07 written by Arun In recent analyst conferences that were publicly webcast on NVIDIA's website, Michael Hara (VP of Investor Relations) has claimed that their next-generation chip, also known as G92 in the...

http://www.digitimes.com/bits_chips/a20070430PB208.html Xbox 360 GPU to go to 65nm in fall, TSMC to see side benefits, says paper Commercial Times, April 30; Esther Lam, DIGITIMES Sources at equipment makers were cited by a Chinese-language Commercial Times report as saying that the Xbox 360...

IBM announces PowerXCell 8i, QS22 blade server Tuesday 13th May 2008, 11:23:00 PM, written by Carl Bender IBM today made formal the announcement of an HPC-targeted variant of the Cell B.E. processor, given the name PowerXCell 8i. Featuring re- engineered SPEs with enhanced dual-precision...

Originally, Intel was saying Larrabee would have 10 or more cores. Most articles in 2007 mentioned 16 to 24 cores. This was when Larrabee was slated for release in 2009. Now that Larrabee has been pushed to 2010, it seems Intel will be able to get 32 cores into the first version. "How many of...

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/03/nvidia-admits-defeat-g92-vs Nvidia admits defeat in G92 vs. RV670 battle 3DMark wars By Theo Valich: Friday, 05 October 2007, 9:39 AM IN THE FAR EAST, 3DMark is everything. You can say whatever you want about canned benchmarks, but nobody...

http://www.neoseeker.com/news/story/7044/ Kevin Spiess - Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 | 11:48AM (PST) Everybody and their dogs are buying new video cards NVIDIA and AMD must be pleased: it seems than demand is outstripping supply for the current generational crop of video cards. The...

Ricky Morris, DIGITIMES, Taipei Sources from multiple graphics card vendors have confirmed that Intel has approached them to lay down plans to enter the discrete graphics card market for desktop PCs. The new products from Intel would be positioned as direct competitors to AMD's ATI Radeon and...

I just installed an Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro heatsink/fan on my socket 939 Opteron 165 which is in an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard, but the heatsink seems to be resting on the core just slightly off center, maybe by 2 or 3 millimeters. Basically, one side of the copper on the heat sink is...

I'm looking to put together an AM2-based system and I look to ASUS, first. It's been about 3 years since I last built a system from scratch. I see that ASUS has several boards in the M2N series. For these two the difference seems to be the flavor if NVIDIA chips. M2N4-SLI NVIDIA nForce 4 ...

I had some horrible experiences supporting eMachine's fisrt generation of products but I'll let bygones be bygones and let the current products stand on thier own merits.... I'm looking at; http://www.emachines.com/products/products.html?prod=T3304 Sempron 3300+ 256MB memory (exp to 2GB) 100...