Archives for April 2007

Researchers from the University of Texas (Austin) plan to show a motherboard featuring four new TRIPS (Tera-op Reliable Intelligently adaptive Processing System) processors next week. From coverage at The Register: “The processor core is composed of multiple copies of five different types of tiles interconnected via microarchitectural networks,” UT says on its website. “Each core […]

NVIDIA announced this week its new Quadro FX 5600 GPU. At $17,500 you probably won’t be putting any of these in that cluster of old PCs you have in the basement at home. It’s a very beefy card, with a 3 GB frame buffer, support for the CUDA GPGPU programming API, and enough graphics power […]

Dan Reed has a post on his blog talking about the big points in PCAST’s successor to the 1999 PITAC report produced under the chairmanship of Kennedy and Joy. Professor Reed draws out this thread (in red) as the main take home: the leadership position of the U.S. in IT is at risk. Their report […]

IBM and The Nature Conservancy announced today they are joining forces to enlist HPC technologies to save some of the world’s great rivers. From the release Working through The Nature Conservancy’s Great Rivers Partnership, the two organizations will build a new computer-modeling framework that will allow users to simulate the behavior of river basins around […]

The AP today is carrying a story on the annual report by the American Electronics Association that finds California employs more tech workers, pays higher wages, and has more venture investment than any other US state. The study also finds the tech sector continues to grow. So, if you’re thinking of throwing your hat into […]

Story over at The Register: Cash-starved AMD put out its hat on Monday, offering up to $2.2bn in convertible notes to help it raise money.

Nick Carr and Wired have some excellent reporting (here and here) on the IT kickback scandal. The whistleblower suits, originally filed in 2004 and joined last week by the US Dept. of Justice, allege that HP and Sun secretly paid millions of dollars to other vendors that sold their products to government agencies. The suits […]

Canadian software company RapidMind announced yesterday it has closed 10M USD in venture funding. This round was led by Ventures West Capital Ltd. and included EdgeStone Capital Partners and existing investor BDC Venture Capital. The RapidMind Development Platform is targeted at software developers trying to get the best performance out of multi-core and stream processors […]

AMD made their chip announcement this morning; as expected, they announced widespread availability and pricing for the 2222 and 8222 SE x86 dual-core server Opteron processors. More here.

From c|net’s News.com: Advanced Micro Devices has begun quietly selling new 3GHz versions of its dual-core Opteron server processor. The new “special edition” models, the 2222 SE and 8222 SE, feature higher performance but consume up to 120 watts compared with 95 watts for conventional 2.8GHz Opterons and 68 watts for 2.6GHz high-efficiency models. The […]