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Thursday, 8-October-2009 03:35:44 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Youngpro from Australia has won the SuperPi round of the recent F1OC competition in Taiwan. Participants in the F1 OC P55 challenge competed for the best SuperPi 32m score using motherboards based on the Intel P55 chipset combined with an Intel Core i7 processor.
TorrentFreak report that The Pirate Bay is in a nuclear bunker. CyberBunker is located in a former military nuclear warfare bunker in The Netherlands. The facility was built by NATO in the 50s to survive a nuclear war, but after the nuclear threats were over it was sold to its current owners. The bunker is now used as a webhosting data center.
Jason sent word of PhotoSketch, which sounds pretty amazing. According to authors, their software can take any rough sketch, with the shape of each element labeled with its name, find images corresponding to each drawn element, judge which are a better match to the shapes, and then seamlessly merge it all into one single image.
NASA are impacting the Moon twice on Friday. The Centaur rocket will strike first, transforming 2200 kg of mass and 10 billion joules of kinetic energy into a blinding flash of heat and light. Researchers expect the impact to throw up a plume of debris as high as 10 km. Close behind, the LCROSS mothership will photograph the collision for NASA TV and then fly right through the debris plume. Discussion here.
Fudzilla report that NVIDIA are working on using GPUs to speed up virus scanning. If Nvidia makes virus scanning drastically faster, they might have a chance of selling more GPUs than any time before. The opportunity is great and we hope that they might come up with something as currently CUDA applications for mainstream market are usually video encoding and image and video enhancement based.
In case you're wondering what's happening with the Large Hadron Collider, the latest news is, it's chilling out. With 6 sectors out of 8 at nominal cryogenic temperature (1.9 K= about -271 C), the commissioning at the LHC is progressing well. According to the present schedule, the whole machine will be cold in about two weeks.
Psyc0de spotted this article about NVIDIA exiting the high-end GPU market until next year. Basically, engineering failure after engineering failure has left Nvidia without a high end part, they are left waving shells while trying desperately to convince the loyal press that it is real. I'd take it with a grain of salt, but it has certainly sparked some discussion.
Gabe Newell of Valve fame visited Australia recently. The whole scenario, to be bluntly honest, was really quite weird. If you aren't aware of how it all happened, Gabe was asked by a local modder by the name of Joe W-A to check out his mod. Gabe jokingly responded that he would if Joe could fly him to Australia. Joe rallied the gaming community and managed to raise 3K to bring Gabe out, at which point the Valve head was forced to call the young man's bluff. More info on Byteside.
There's been a bit of chatter about NVIDIA drivers seemingly disabling PhysX when an ATI card is detected in the system. Qwertylesh noticed more on a patch to fix this. Although having a powerful ATI Radeon GPU aided by a less-powerful NVIDIA GeForce GPU for PhysX was possible on Windows XP, the succeeding Windows Vista restricted this, by making sure two active display drivers couldn't coexist. Windows 7 removed this restriction, but before you could rejoice, NVIDIA quickly released a driver-level code with its 186 series drivers, that disables NVIDIA PhysX altogether when a GPU from another vendor is coexisting and enabled, even an IGP for that matter.
Wayne sent in this timewaster where you control the economy by adjusting the federal funds rate. Annoying loud sounds!
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