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Sunday, 20-November-2011 15:37:12 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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From Andrew: Thought I'd drop you a line to tell you that in the Muon1 Distributed Particle Accelerator Design (DPAD) Project, a member of your team had the best design for a lattice. User '[OCAU] badger' had the best design int he PhaseRotEb6a lattice, which started December 2007. A video of the design has been made, and a writeup of the lattice will be here shortly. I'll admit I'm not entirely sure what all that means, but congrats to Badger anyway! :)
Rambus have lost their $4B lawsuit against Micron and Hynix. The IP licensing company, which has become widely known for its litigious ways, lost more than 60% of its market value following the ruling amid investors' fears that the company wouldn't be able to sustain its business model. The case revolved around allegations that Micron, Hynix and others had engaged in price-fixing to keep Rambus' RDRAM memory technology from gaining widespread adoption.
Seagate's CEO says it will be a while until the HDD market recovers from the flooding in Thailand. Each of the hundreds of thousands of drives Seagate’s Thai factories ship every day contain parts from 130 or so suppliers, many still under three feet of water. The projections by some Wall Street analysts that production will be back to pre-flood levels by summer are nonsense, Luczo says. “This is going to take a lot longer than people are assuming, until the end of 2012 at least,” he says. “And by then, demand will have gone up.”
The James Webb Telescope, expected to supercede Hubble, has recieved full funding approval from the House of Representatives. “It’s certainly a major improvement in our position,” says NASA’s John Mather, senior project scientist for JWST and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics. “Especially considering that not too many months ago one of the subcommittees voted to give us zero dollars.”
Overclockers.com have taken Bulldozer to 8GHz. Hopefully this will be helpful for anyone out there with Bulldozer and Liquid Nitrogen, and for everyone else I hope it uncovers the secrets of how its done. It worked for me to the tune of 8.06GHz and currently 17th place in the world.
Sciby spotted this F1-style wheel for sim racers, with an interesting twist. You turn via what looks like a super responsive accelerometer and it has more than 20 buttons on it to give you one-touch access to everything you need. The real genius here is the gas and brake, though. Any hardcore racer will tell you, a simple button that just turns gas on/of or brake on/off just plain sucks. There’s no nuance. No control. Traditionally, expensive steering wheel rigs have featured foot pedals to accomodate this. While that’s definitely a more realistic driving experience it makes the rig extremely unportable. What they did for the SRW-S1 is to put a couple “paddles” on the back, that give you extremely nuanced control over acceleration and braking.
LegitReviews checked out DDR3 performance on X79. We started out running a single module at 1333MHz and then another module at a time to test dual channel, triple channel and finally quad channel. The Intel X79 chipet on the Intel SX79SI motherboard was able to properly run each memory configuration. The benchmark results in Sandra 2012 were very impressive in the sense that the benchmark results were nearly linear when moving from single channel to triple channel memory.
Kombiman sent word that the OCAU 2011 Secret Santa is now underway!
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