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Comment Re:How about Jupiter (Score 1) 97

by Thoggins on Sunday October 05, 2008 @02:38AM (#25261861) Attached to: Steve Fossett's Unfinished Project

If the Japanese are going to build their space elevator, we're going to need that diamond core to maximize the elevator's potential. Draw up and open source the plans for the earth-ring and the continental towers, so we can move back to the braincap project.

Submission + - AMD Delivers First Stream Processor @ 500 GFLOPS

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Godsmack74

on Thursday November 08, 2007 @06:41PM

Godsmack74 writes: "AMD FireStream 9170 The AMD FireStream 9170 will be the world's first Stream GPU with double-precision floating point technology tailored for scientific and engineering calculations. Competitively priced at an MSRP of $1999 USD, it features up to 500 GFLOPS of compute power, rivalling many of today's supercomputers, and providing dramatic acceleration for critical algorithms. This second generation Stream Processor is built with 55 nm process technology and consumes less than 150 watts of power — delivering an exceptional performance per watt. In addition, the reduced heat dissipation allows it to function in dense design configurations. The FireStream 9170 is a single card solution with 2GB of onboard GDDR3 memory to compute large datasets without CPU traffic. The asynchronous direct memory access (DMA) ensures data can flow freely without interrupting the stream processor or CPU. At $1999 USD it may be one of the most expensive graphics processors on the planet. Although it's not really competitively priced against anything on the "normal" graphics market, for the high end market it fits right in. Of course where else can you pay $1999 and get 500GFLOPS of compute power? With the power of graphics cards rivaling and surpassing that of average processors the migration of the entire industry to graphics architectures and line of thought is not far away. Are we once again seeing AMD's forethought and planning in action? Acquiring ATI may prove to be a genius move in the long run. Pictures and more information can be found at TechwareLabs"

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