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Intel learns from insects to make 80-cores practical
Researchers at chip giant Intel are looking to create insect-like exoskeletons that will help make 80-core processors work with today's software and hardware. Read more »
Sun boots server with Niagara II chip
Sun Microsystems has booted its Solaris operating system on a server with a prototype of its forthcoming Niagara II processor, one key milestone for the company's attempt to restore the relevance of its Sparc processor family. Read more »
Sun floats open-source database idea
Sun Microsystems has raised the possibility that it might offer customers its own database, a move that could trigger displeasure at Oracle but curry favor with open-source advocates. Read more »
Intel pledges 80-core chips in five years
Intel has built a prototype of a processor with 80 cores that can perform a trillion floating-point operations per second. Read more »
IBM breaks petaflop barrier with PS3 and AMD chips
Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop — 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second — twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, IBM's Blue Gene. Read more »
IBM wins hybrid supercomputer deal
IBM has won a deal to build a supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) that will pair more than 16,000 AMD Opteron processors with more than 16,000 Cell processors to try to reach a new computing milestone for the company. Read more »
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It's a Matrix moment for Linux
We are finding out that the brains of Linux programmers have been floating in tanks, feeding the parasitic robots (lawyers) who are calling the shots at financially strapped SCO. Now it's time to harvest those brains. Read more »
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Bridging the gap between programmers and the visionA successful project will have a hard time flying if you don't walk through the game plan before writing a line of code. Read more »
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Social news start-up Streem shuts downSydney social news start-up Streem will shut down this afternoon, according to a heartfelt notice posted on the site this morning by its founder Elgar Welch. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
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