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NASA Contest To Name ISS Module 197

Solarch writes "NASA is holding a contest to name ISS Node 3. Being a Browncoat myself, I should hope that the choice of names would be obvious. As of the 7:30 PM EST on 2/25, the name Serenity has over 80% of the vote. From the site: 'Node 3 will connect to the port side of the Unity Node and will provide room for many of the station's life support systems, in the form of eight refrigerator-sized racks. After Node 3 is installed, the station's crew will transfer over many of the Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS) currently stored in various places around the station.'"

Generational Windows Multicore Performance Tests 228

snydeq writes "Windows XP, Windows Vista, and (soon) Windows 7 all support SMP out of the box, but as InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy notes, 'experience has shown that multiprocessing across discrete CPUs is not the same thing as multiprocessing across integrated cores within the same CPU.' As such, Kennedy set out to stress the multiprocessing capabilities of Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 in dual-core and quad-core performance tests. The comprehensive, multiprocess workload tests were undertaken to document scalability, execution efficiency, and raw performance of workloads. 'What I found may surprise you,' Kennedy writes. 'Not only does Microsoft have a firm grasp of multicore tuning, but its scalability story promises to keep getting better with time. In other words, Windows Vista and Windows 7 are poised to reap ever greater performance benefits as Intel and AMD extend the number of cores in future editions of their processors.'"

Comment Re:Missing (Score 5, Funny) 1012

I've been saying that for years! I loath the olympics these days becuase they are all about HUMAN INTREST stories, which are a load of crap. Make the damn games about competiveness! Doesn't anybody remember the Cold War? There were some hardcore rivalries there. These days, the world lacks that sort of bitter hatred between two super power representing opposing ideaologies. We need to spice things up a bit. Let the athletes take whatever drugs they want in any dose they want and let them train however they want. The rich countries already do this to an extend: oxygen tents, protien supplements, speical clothing, etc. Just imagine the huge number of new world records set and the huge number of athletes having siezures and strokes during competition. Man, that would be damn rivetting television.

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