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IBM Roadrunner Flips through Petaflop Barrier-> 0

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on Monday June 09 2008, @09:17AM

MartinB writes "IBM's Roadrunner Supercomputer has achieved petaflop speeds at Los Alamos. Built from 6,948 dual-core AMD Opterons and 12,960 Cell engines and running Red Hat, Roadrunner outpaces the current Supercomputer Leader: Blue Gene/L (also at Los Alamos), which runs at a pedestrian 478.2 teraflops. Roadrunner will primarily be used for national security, but will also help scientists perform research into energy, astronomy, genetics and climate change. (Disclaimer: I work for IBM, but no priviledged information was used to produce this post)"
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Beatles Compleat on iTMS Tomorrow

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on Tuesday February 13 2007, @11:55AM

MartinB writes "Neil Aspinall, head of Apple Corps, is reported as saying that the entire Beatles back catalogue will be available on the iTunes Store soon, possibly as early as Valentine's Day. However, the Fab Four aren't just sticking their toe in the download market — the catalogue will be available on all services."

PVR on appleTV

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on Friday January 12 2007, @08:34PM

MartinB writes "The guys at elgato are completely confident that eyeTV will support appleTV. Turns out the key thing is exporting to iTunes in H.264 or MPEG-4. Now, can we please have a MythDVD-like DVD ripper that can do the same, so I can watch all my (legal) video content on the thing?"