Do you have one of the 4th gen laptops already? I thought they didn't ship until Dec 20th. If you do, what's the battery life like with the new processor?

*Sigh*

  If only there was some other amendment that protected medical records and other private / personal information

Don't be part of the problem, be part of the solution man.

Seems like a nice airport, maybe he's bathing in the fountains near the strip club.

So it's interesting, a light weight ARM processor, without anything better than micro USB and micro HDMI. Neat yes, but really? Useful? Maybe as a wireless router, or some other PoE like device but as a useful processing system? Um...

Even linking many of these together - neat, but again, the world of MPI is based on completely different processor designs and interconnects, you're talking huge amount of time and effort to replicate something on a unique platform which may or may not ever see wide spread acceptance by the developer base.

I question this number as well, even considering decades of tapes, we're still off by factors of 100 or more here. I think what this is called more than anything is sensationalizing, your average layperson probably has never even heard the word Zettabyte. In fact I know this, when describing what I do for a living (HPC storage engineering) to my friends and family I have to constantly explain what a Petabyte is, let along anything larger than that.

I don't want to get into an argument here about which process is better. My point was that the Atom works well, as well as the Xeon line and Core line processors.

Whether or not your favorite brand is something else shouldn't make a difference here. The point being that Intel is making piles of cash on technology they've already developed and put piles of money into. Why kill the golden goose just because cell phones use a slightly lower powered alternative.

The article reads like:

"My server processors suck for cell phones, so I should discontinue those because people use more cell phones than servers"

Not very sound business logic IMHO.

Really? I mean the Atom line processors are pretty great. The technology is well developed both for hardware and software and Intel basically owns that market. Why would they want to kill it off when they're still making money hand over fist with it?

Right, and when the Fed is buying hundreds of billions of dollars of public bonds with money they're printing from thin air... Who sets those rates again?

When my q6600 was running XP it addressed 3.5GB of memory. As soon as I installed win7 it addressed all 6GB I had in the box.

PAE under FreeBSD and Linux works fine, it's just the amount of userland vs kernelland addressable memory that's the issue. On a PAE kernel you're still stuck with 3.5GB of kernel land addressable memory.

Yes of course they can drive these cards, will they do it at the same performance as a modern dual or quad core CPU, no.

Hi Yes,

But this is comparing a fast bicyclist to a fast space craft in the sense of speed difference here.

We're talking machines that are pushing into the tens and hundreds of petaflops (next generation).

I'm fine with calling them low-power high performance clusters, but calling them super computers is something completely different altogether.

Sorry but a multi-megaflop machine is NOT a super computer, not even in the most basic stretch of the word. Yes it's impressive how much compute these guys can get out of so little power, but lets not kid our selves here. These machines are in no way super computers as commonly defined.

Are spacely sprokets as good as they claim or is it really just hype?

I was thinking this as well, with the largest earthen structure possibly the start of a impound pond for cooling