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Thursday, 13-September-2012 03:05:42 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Gigabyte are giving away a GPU over on Games.on.net - you'll need an account there. Much like most of our contests here at games.on.net, it couldn’t be simpler! All you need to do is leave a comment on this article explaining, in 150 words or less, why you desperately need to upgrade your computer with this card more than anybody else. Maybe your computer is currently wheezing and coughing up blood, or just belching smoke every time you fire up something more demanding than Solitaire.
IBM have an interesting video about 3D chip stacking to reduce power consumption. In the United States, data centers already consume two percent of the electricity available with consumption doubling every five years. In theory, at this rate, a supercomputer in the year 2050 will require the entire production of the United States' energy grid.
Meanwhile engineers at the University of Southampton in the UK have built a Raspberry Pi supercomputer. The machine, named “Iridis-Pi” after the University’s Iridis supercomputer, runs off a single 13 Amp mains socket and uses MPI (Message Passing Interface) to communicate between nodes using Ethernet. The whole system cost under £2,500 (excluding switches) and has a total of 64 processors and 1Tb of memory (16Gb SD cards for each Raspberry Pi).
Apparently the Taliban are using facebook to get info out of Coalition soldiers. The dangers of social media are revealed in a federal government review of social media and defence, which was finalised in March but has not been acted upon, Defence sources say. The review found an "overt reliance" on privacy settings had led to "a false sense of security" among personnel.
Steam now have a TV-friendly version, called the Big Picture. With the press of a button, Steam displays a new full-screen user interface optimized for readability and interaction on TV. Big Picture has been designed to be used with a traditional game controller, while also fully supporting keyboard and mouse input.
Intel's Developer Forum is underway, with opening keynote coverage from LegitReviews, Day 1 coverage from HotHardware and Haswell Architecture covered on PCPerspective. Hothardware followed up with Tech Zone details, while LegitReviews looked at Windows To Go.
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