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Saturday, 18-November-2006 02:15:07 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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The Top 500 Supercomputers List has been updated again. IBM's Blue Gene still tops the list, all 131,072 processors of it. Digitimes have their thoughts on the latest update. Compared to June 2006, IBM lost two TOP500 systems, but the company continues dominating the list as the leading builder of the world's most powerful supercomputers, with 237 machines. Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron power 227 (down from 263 six months ago) and 113 (up from 80) TOP500 systems, respectively, followed by the IBM Power family with 91 systems (up from 83). Since June, Opteron reduced the gap with Xeon by one third.
Meanwhile, TechWareLabs have their last day of Supercomputing Show 2006 coverage posted. Is supercomputing upon us, or are these expensive toys without real world use?
Here's Google's original storage, in a Lego housing. This reminds me of when they bought the garage where they first started out.
There's some pics of the first One Laptop Per Child PC. It’s not the fastest little machine in the world, but it definitely has personality and I find myself falling in love with it.
PCPerspective checked out the Xbox360 HD-DVD player.. and discovered it works in PC's, too. This ghetto-looking HD-DVD setup might just be the cheapest and most versatile next-generation DVD configuration. eCoustics follow up with a Blu-ray vs HD-DVD article.
HardOCP have some press-release info from AMD, including CPU & GPU Integration and 65nm production news.
TechSpot compared ATI Radeon X1950 Pro and Nvidia GeForce 7900GS in the "mainstream graphics" arena.
Tweaktown have been overclocking GeForce 8800's, as well as spending time with Fatal1ty. This is the BIGGEST gaming Expo event in Africa as a whole, and is held every year at the "Dome" at Northgate in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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