Tuesday, January 31, 2012
The Simpsons Aims For World Record With 500-Episode Marathon
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Monday, January 30, 2012
Near treshold Cores: Fight against dark silicon began
Due to limited scaling of supply voltage, power density is expected to grow in future technology nodes. This increasing power density limits the number of simultaneously switching transistors for future chips, leaving others inactive, a phenomenon referred to as dark silicon. As a result, future chips would only support a small fraction of working transistors. Threshold voltage scales down more slowly in current and future technology nodes to keep leakage power under control.
Researchers predict that near-threshold computing could restore the relationship between transistor density and energy efficiency.
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Researchers predict that near-threshold computing could restore the relationship between transistor density and energy efficiency.
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DARPA progam seeks 75-fold increase in sensor systems performance
Technologists from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are looking for an ambitious answer to the problem and will next month detail a new program it expects will develop power technologies that could bolster system power output from today's 1 GFLOPS/watt to 75 GFLOPS/watt.
The goal of the program, called Power Efficiency Revolution For Embedded Computing Technologies or PERFECT, is to take a revolutionary approach to processing power efficiency down to the 7nm line geometry. Year 2020. Exaflops supercomputer time.
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The goal of the program, called Power Efficiency Revolution For Embedded Computing Technologies or PERFECT, is to take a revolutionary approach to processing power efficiency down to the 7nm line geometry. Year 2020. Exaflops supercomputer time.
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Transportation Hiriko: The MIT-backed, Spanish 'folding' EVehicle
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Google's Google+ gambit: Deep roots .
Let me tell you a story about Richard M. Nixon and the Cold War--and yes, I promise it's relevant to a blog post about Google's controversial move to integrate its Google+ network deeply into the Google search engine. Machinations between Google, Facebook, and Twitter will play a huge part in shaping its future--and it'll be fascinating to see what it looks like a year or two from now.
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Is the Untied States In Decline?
“The Great Recession has had a two-fold impact. First, it highlighted the shift of global wealth—and power—from West to East, a trend illustrated by China’s breathtakingly rapid rise to great power status. Second, it has raised doubts about the robustness of US primacy’s economic and financial underpinnings. This article argues that the Aunipolar moment is over, and the Pax Americana—the era of American ascendancy in international politics that began in 1945—is fast winding down. ”
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Jobs from 1947 up now
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Ooooops, Nikola Tesla patented my car entry remote !
But, there is more.
Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil’s patent describes a mechanical system for frequency hopping spread spectrum technology to remotely control torpedoes. Year 1942.
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Look ma no hands: Volvo Tests Almost-Autonomous ‘Road Train’
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US launched cyber attacks on other nations
Mike McConnell, the former director of national intelligence at the National Security Agency under George W Bush, tells Reuters this week that cyber war is more than a distant possibility. According to the current vice chairman at Booz Allen Hamilton, the US has already launched attacks on the computer networks of other nations.
Thousands of Infrastructure Computer Systems are Online, Unprotected
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Thousands of Infrastructure Computer Systems are Online, Unprotected
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F35 wins in the end in Japan and Korea
Detractors say the F-35 stealth fighter, the costliest military plane ever, is destined to go down as one of the biggest follies in aviation history. But it may have found a savior: deep-pocketed U.S. allies hungry to add its super high-tech capabilities to their arsenal.
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Flash revenue expected to overtake DRAM in 2012
The Bumpy Road to Exascale: A Q&A with Thomas Sterling
The Bumpy Road to Exascale: A Q&A with Thomas Sterling
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Internet protocol myth buster
There's a common wrong perception that IPv6 is natively more secure than IPv4 because IPSec support is mandatory in IPv6. "This is a myth that needs to be debunked," Vyncke says.
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Satellite images of Earth show roads, air traffic, cities at night and internet cables
2012: Processor architecture now matters, not supreme manufacturing
Air-fueled lithium batteries offer ten-fold storage capacity
Background: Everything I need to know about lithium-air batteries
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First 3-D IC spec set for release
Intel to unveil 22nm Ivy Bridge processors on April 8
Not an April fools, say Taiwan sources.
Intel plans to release a total of 25 models of its 22nm Ivy Bridge processors, including 17 CPUs for desktops and eight for notebooks and ultrabooks on or around April 8, 2012.
Ivy Bridge processors will be backwards-compatible with the Sandy Bridge platform, but require a BIOS/firmware update.
Intel's performance targets (compared to Sandy Bridge):
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Intel plans to release a total of 25 models of its 22nm Ivy Bridge processors, including 17 CPUs for desktops and eight for notebooks and ultrabooks on or around April 8, 2012.
Ivy Bridge processors will be backwards-compatible with the Sandy Bridge platform, but require a BIOS/firmware update.
Intel's performance targets (compared to Sandy Bridge):
- Up to 20% increase in CPU performance.
- Up to 30% increase in integrated GPU performance.
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Raspberry Pi , An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25.
An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25.
From a situation in the 1990s where most of the kids applying were coming to interview as hobbyist programmers, the landscape in the 2000s was very different; a typical applicant now had experience only with web design, and sometimes not even with that. Fewer people were applying to the course every year. Something had changed the way kids were interacting with computers.
Credit card-sized Raspberry Pi computer will handle 1080p video next month.
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USA Congress Funds Exascale Computing
Last week, House and Senate conferees agreed on full funding for the Department of Energy's effort to move toward exascale computing by providing $442 million for advanced scientific computing research, $126 million of which will go toward exascale computing, according to the president's budget proposal.
Congress is addressing those concerns by requiring the Department of Energy to submit a "joint, integrated" exascale strategy by February 10 of next year that will include target dates, interim milestones, minimum requirements for an exascale system, multi-year budget estimates, breakdowns of each office and lab involved in exascale research, and a more granular budget request for 2013.
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Congress is addressing those concerns by requiring the Department of Energy to submit a "joint, integrated" exascale strategy by February 10 of next year that will include target dates, interim milestones, minimum requirements for an exascale system, multi-year budget estimates, breakdowns of each office and lab involved in exascale research, and a more granular budget request for 2013.
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Kick-off for the European exascale project DEEP
The scientists expect a first prototype as early as 2014/2015 that will have a capacity of 100 petaflop/s
Russia too "is committed to having exascale computation capabilities by 2018-2020 and is prepared to make the investments to make that happen,"
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IBM Patent Application #20110219208: 100 PFlops Supercomputer
A 649-page document filed in January provides an outlook on how the company will achieve 100 Petaflops, which translates to (100 quadrillion) operations per second.
From the patent: “A Multi-Petascale Highly Efficient Parallel Supercomputer of 100 petaOPS-scale computing, at decreased cost, power and footprint, and that allows for a maximum packaging density of processing nodes from an interconnect point of view. The Supercomputer exploits technological advances in VLSI that enables a computing model where many processors can be integrated into a single Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). Each ASIC computing node comprises a system-on-chip ASIC utilizing four or more processors integrated into one die, with each having full access to all system resources and enabling adaptive partitioning of the processors to functions such as compute or messaging I/O on an application by application basis, and preferably, enable adaptive partitioning of functions in accordance with various algorithmic phases within an application, or if I/O or other processors are underutilized, then can participate in computation or communication nodes are interconnected by a five dimensional torus network with DMA that optimally maximize the throughput of packet communications between nodes and minimize latency.”
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From the patent: “A Multi-Petascale Highly Efficient Parallel Supercomputer of 100 petaOPS-scale computing, at decreased cost, power and footprint, and that allows for a maximum packaging density of processing nodes from an interconnect point of view. The Supercomputer exploits technological advances in VLSI that enables a computing model where many processors can be integrated into a single Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). Each ASIC computing node comprises a system-on-chip ASIC utilizing four or more processors integrated into one die, with each having full access to all system resources and enabling adaptive partitioning of the processors to functions such as compute or messaging I/O on an application by application basis, and preferably, enable adaptive partitioning of functions in accordance with various algorithmic phases within an application, or if I/O or other processors are underutilized, then can participate in computation or communication nodes are interconnected by a five dimensional torus network with DMA that optimally maximize the throughput of packet communications between nodes and minimize latency.”
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Top Ten Memresistor Patent Holders
1) Samsung (387 US patents, phase change)
2) Micron (371 US patents, solid electrolyte)
3) Macronix (171 US patents, phase change)
4) Ovonyx (165 US patents, phase change)
5) IBM (126 US patents phase change)
6) HP (108 US patents, molecular)
7) Toshiba (108 US patents, metal oxide)
8) Sharp (107 US patents, metal oxide)
9) Intel (89 US patents, phase change)
10) Qimonda (88 US patents, phase change)
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2) Micron (371 US patents, solid electrolyte)
3) Macronix (171 US patents, phase change)
4) Ovonyx (165 US patents, phase change)
5) IBM (126 US patents phase change)
6) HP (108 US patents, molecular)
7) Toshiba (108 US patents, metal oxide)
8) Sharp (107 US patents, metal oxide)
9) Intel (89 US patents, phase change)
10) Qimonda (88 US patents, phase change)
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Fujifilm X-Pro1: Radical new sensor layout smashes sharpness limits
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Intel's well kept future processor design secrets
That is just the beginning though. Haswell will utilize new mobile (947 pin) and desktop sockets (1150 pin), which will stay the same through Broadwell "tick".
Debuting in 2014, Broadwell will be the first part manufactured in brand new 14nm technology and represents a further optimization of the Haswell design. According to our sources, Broadwell brings the first true System-on-Chip design, integrating features such as Ethernet, Thunderbolt or USB 3.0 - all inside one single package. This part is already being widely discussed by Far Eastern motherboard vendors as a margin killer, since unless something changes, there won't be room to earn money off building parts for that platform.
Skylake Architecture: 14nm Skylake Tock and 11nm Skymont Tick
There isn't a lot of information available on the 14nm Skylake CPU architecture (2015), sans the completely new CPU core and GPU core, which will work as one. What Larrabee architecture failed to do, Skylake intends to fix, bringing DirectX 12(?) support straight through the CPU pipeline. There is no doubt that Intel will be first to 14nm process, just like the company was with practically every manufacturing process out there. Skymont will be a 11nm "Tock", a die-shrink and a component refresh coming out in mid-2016.
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Debuting in 2014, Broadwell will be the first part manufactured in brand new 14nm technology and represents a further optimization of the Haswell design. According to our sources, Broadwell brings the first true System-on-Chip design, integrating features such as Ethernet, Thunderbolt or USB 3.0 - all inside one single package. This part is already being widely discussed by Far Eastern motherboard vendors as a margin killer, since unless something changes, there won't be room to earn money off building parts for that platform.
Skylake Architecture: 14nm Skylake Tock and 11nm Skymont Tick
There isn't a lot of information available on the 14nm Skylake CPU architecture (2015), sans the completely new CPU core and GPU core, which will work as one. What Larrabee architecture failed to do, Skylake intends to fix, bringing DirectX 12(?) support straight through the CPU pipeline. There is no doubt that Intel will be first to 14nm process, just like the company was with practically every manufacturing process out there. Skymont will be a 11nm "Tock", a die-shrink and a component refresh coming out in mid-2016.
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William Hyde Wollaston
William Hyde Wollaston proves in 1801 that the electricity from friction was identical to that produced by voltaic piles. Thus, there is only one cause of electric force. In 1821 he failed to design first direct current electrical motor. Magnetic induction dicovered Faradey in 1831. Nikola Tesla invented alternating current motor in 1888.
Experiments by J.J. Thomson in 1897 led to the discovery of a fundamental building block of matter. The electron. Carrier of the mysterious electric force.
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Google claims 90 million Google+ users
Google claims 90 million Google+ users
but still lagging behind Facebook's 800 million active users and Twitter's 100 million active users. And 90m users doesn't mean they are all active.
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but still lagging behind Facebook's 800 million active users and Twitter's 100 million active users. And 90m users doesn't mean they are all active.
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Not All MLC SSDs are created equal
Apple largest computer maker, sold more iPads alone than HP sold PCs
"Apple's $13 billion quarterly profit is second-biggest in U.S. history. Only topped by Exxon's $14.8 billion in 2008," tweeted CNNMoneyTech.
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Super-MicroDX, world smallest PC. In sale.
This product has a cigarette box-sized enclosure , 512MB of memory and CPU Vortex with 800Mhz clock, GPU (Volari Z9s / Memory 8MB), VGA, and LAN. XP is the OS.
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Canon's new 5D Mark II and 7D crossbreed ?
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Thomas Edison greatest inventor ever, Steven Jobs second ?
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Tablet computers can replace laptops
Samsung's 10-inch Galaxy Tab tablet with a case containing a wireless keyboard was my main computer during the North American International Auto Show this year. In six weeks of testing, I have found that the tablet performs as well as a laptop for the vast majority of computing tasks.
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Rapid Storage Technology software suite 11.5 and 11.6
We have already disclosed that RST 11.5 is bringing what we believe to be the key feature for adoption of Solid Storage Drives (SSDs) into enterprise, and that is TRIM and Garbage Collection when SSDs are inside a RAID array. We know today that the supported RAID arrays modes are 0 (stripping), 1 (mirror), 1+0 and 5 (min three drive stripe with redundancy).
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
World's first XERA X-Emission-Rays-Amplification created
This sets off an avalanche of X-ray emissions to create the world's first atomic X-ray laser - and temperatures of two million degrees.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: X-ray and visible light are not the same frequency. Even close.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: X-ray and visible light are not the same frequency. Even close.
Lexar's 256GB Flash card
CF 6.0 ( Nov.2010): UDMA Mode 7 (167MB / serial speed 1113) . Added sanitize command.
- Year 2000: 8MB
- Year 2000: 16MB
- Year 2000: 32MB
- Year 2000: 64MB
- Year 2000: 128MB
- Year 2000: 256MB
- Year 2001: 512MB
- Year 2002: 1GB
- Year 2004: 2GB
- Year 2006: 4GB
- Year 2006: 8GB
- Year 2007: 16GB
- Year 2008: 32GB
- Year 2009: 64GB
- Year 2010: 128GB
- Year 2012: 256GB
99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Who cares for SSD anymore? This is quite enough FAT32 CF + storage for your next tablet. 2014 512GB, 2016 1TB !
