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Submission + - A New Global IPv6 Backbone (telephonyonline.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 21, 2009 @05:21PM

An anonymous reader writes: Still waiting for your Internet provider to support IPv6? Apparently one provider gave up waiting for other ISPs and deployed a free global IPv6 backbone with tunnel end points around the world. Most Microsoft users are now automatically using this IPv6 infrastructure. As a result, IPv6 reachability no longer sucks (i.e. loss / latency) and one blog claims IPv6 traffic has jumped by 1400% (http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2009/09/who-put-the-ipv6-in-my-internet/).

Submission + - Elite turns 25 (frontier.co.uk)

Submitted by

satellite17

on Monday September 21, 2009 @05:03PM

satellite17 writes: "The BBC notes that the classic space combat / trading Sim Elite is 25 ears old today. Elite was one of the first 3D games produced for a home computer and also one of the first open ended games. It's open ended nature meant that even though it was popular with friends of the creators, David Braben and Ian Bell, they initially struggled to find a publisher. "They just didn't get it, they wanted a high score and they wanted players to have three lives," Braben said. It is also credited with influencing quite a few modern classics."

Submission + - Researcher uncovers Amazon's ID algorithm, indirec (datacenterknowledge.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 21, 2009 @04:19PM

An anonymous reader writes: Datacenter Knowledge is reporting on new research that has estimated of the scale of Amazon's cloud usage (50k instances launched a day!) in a unique new way: Using just the ID numbers returned from the system, the researcher was able to unscramble the pattern behind their generation and track provisioning of resources.

Submission + - NOAA Scientists Catch Rare Giant Squid in Gulf of (noaa.gov)

Submitted by

Manilus

on Monday September 21, 2009 @01:48PM

Manilus writes: "Scientists on the hunt for what piques sperm whales appetites unexpectedly netted an almost 20 feet long, 103 pound Giant Squid. This is only the second specimen of its type to be found in the Gulf with the first being found near the Mississippi River Delta in 1954."

Submission + - AMD aims to be first with CPU/GPU OpenCL programmi (eetimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 21, 2009 @07:33AM

An anonymous reader writes: Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) claims that its ATI graphics processing unit (GPU) architecture is compatible with OpenCL, according to this article at EE Times . And that means AMD is in the lead in terms of going to OpenCL in terms of heterogeneous multicore programming, AMD further claims.

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