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Submission + - Efficient HPC using low-power components ?

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Anonymous Coward

on Friday January 12, 2007 @12:59PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Most High Performance Computing systems use lots of 1U or 2U racked nodes with dual processor/dual core opterons or xeons. Such systems consume large amounts of electrical power and usually require additional electricity supplies and cooling plant. Do any Slashdotters utilise more power efficient computing nodes which still have reasonable floating point/subsystem performance to build their computing clusters ?"

Submission + - Final Fantasy III Review For The Nintendo DS

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njkid1

on Friday January 12, 2007 @12:56PM

njkid1 writes: "This may be the last of the Final Fantasy games to hit North America, but will it live up to our expectations? You decide...http://www.gamedaily.com/final-fantasy-ii i/ds/game-reviews/5269?articleID=38059&ncid=AOLGAM 000500000000012"

Submission + - From the Zero Point to Infinity

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Sterling D. Allan

on Friday January 12, 2007 @12:39PM

Sterling D. Allan writes: "After holding it to their chest for over a year, the Nova Institute of Technology has allowed their fruitful scientific monograph to be published. Y-Bias and Angularity: Self-Organizing Criticality — From the Zero Point to Infinity describes a newly developed model of scalar physics that incorporates all the rules of self-organizing criticality [P. Bak et al] into a simple, elegant framework. As a technology incubator company, they say that based on the precepts included in this new model, they "have successfully developed, tested and independently verified four entirely new materials, including (1) a positively charged ZnO2 thin film, (2) a transparent electrically conductive thin film with virtually no capacitance and ambient resistance of less than 2 ohms per square, regardless of surface area, (3) a semi-conductor-based thermal electric generator that converts heat to electrical power at efficiencies ranging between 38% — 45%, between temperatures ranging from 1C — 240C, and (4) a new material that has been shown to fluoresce, emit and lase across the visible spectrum [tunable] in nano-particle sizes, using direct electrical stimulation rather up or down pumping.""

Does Income Inequality Matter? 1186

Posted by Cliff on Friday January 12, 2007 @12:16PM from the an-issue-worth-discussing dept.

theodp is concerned about the following: "Alarmed by Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein's record-setting $53M bonus, Charles Wheelan (aka The Naked Economist) argues that income inequality matters. Wheelan notes that the Gini Coefficient (a measure of income inequality) for the U.S. has been moving away from countries like Japan and Sweden and closer to that of Brazil, where the murder rate is 5X that of NYC and crime is materially impacting GDP."

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