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+ - Samsung Develops Fastest GDDR5 Chips-> 0

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psyph3r

on Sunday December 02, 2007 @05:53PM

psyph3r writes "An article talking about Samsung's press release and their new GDDR5. More information here

"Samsung has been tooting their horn lately with their TB drives and SSDs. They are yet again claiming another crown with their new development of GDDR5. Samsung states in a press release that "...it has developed the world's fastest memory, a GDDR5 (series five, graphics double-data-rate memory) chip that can transfer data at six gigabits per second...""
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+ - IBM Embraces Solaris for the Mainframe-> 0

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explosivejared

on Sunday December 02, 2007 @05:44PM

explosivejared writes "In an example of the computer industry's higher level of abstraction — in this case, known as horse trading — IBM has called attention to a demonstration of Solaris running on the mainframe. It's also endorsed Sun Microsystems' xVM product, its entry into virtualization for x86 servers. The endorsement is notable at a time when Sun is seeking credibility for yet another hypervisor entrant into the virtualization market. IBM's xVM endorsement is practically the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, since it invented virtualization more than 40 years ago. Sun in turn has assisted a third party, the research and development firm Sine Nomine Associates in Ashburn, Va., in getting Sun's OpenSolaris operating system to run on the IBM mainframe, something that many observers said would never happen.

"We're thrilled to be able to reach new customers and market opportunities alongside IBM," said Rich Green, executive VP for software at Sun, in a statement released during Gartner's Data Center Conference in Las Vegas on Friday."
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+ - $100 Billiion 'Fix' For Global Warming Discredited-> 4

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slowboy

on Sunday December 02, 2007 @03:27PM

slowboy writes "Science Blog reports that a $100 billion fix for global warming may not work. The discredited 'fix' is the fertilization of potentially millions of tons of iron or other nutrients into the ocean to promote an algae bloom. If this was to work then the algae would start sucking the carbon out of the atmosphere and reduce the effects of a major greenhouse gas. But guess what, that may just not work, regardless of how it would disrupt the ocean's ecosystem. It seems that the carbon may not get pumped into the deeper ocean, it may just lie near the surface and get taken back up into the atmosphere. Fortunately we are finding this out now, and not after $100 billion of you're, mine and others tax money went to the scheme."
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