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Submission + - Japanese supercomputer blisters 10 quadrillion cal (networkworld.com)

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coondoggie

on Friday November 04, 2011 @01:01PM

coondoggie writes: "The Japanese supercomputer ranked #1 on the Top 500 fastest supercomputers broke its own record this week by hitting 10 quadrillion calculations per second (10.51 petaflops), according to its operators, Fujitsu and Riken.
The supercomputer “K” consists of 864 racks, comprising a total of 88,128 interconnected CPUs and has a theoretical calculation speed of 11.28 petaflops, the companies said."

Submission + - Vmware, a falling giant? (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Lashat on Friday November 04, 2011 @12:37PM

Lashat writes: According to Ars Technica "A new survey seems to show that VMware's iron grip on the enterprise virtualization market is loosening, with 38 percent of businesses planning to switch vendors within the next year due to licensing models and the robustness of competing hypervisors."

What do /.ers say about moving away from what is IMHO the most stable and feature rich vm architecture available? Full disclosure:I am not clear on how the licensing has changed since that is not my department.

Submission + - Microsoft, Mozilla and Google Ban Malaysian CA (net-security.org)

Submitted by Orome1 on Friday November 04, 2011 @11:26AM

Orome1 writes: Microsoft, Mozilla and Google have announced that they are revoking trust in Malaysia-based DigiCert, an intermediate certificate authority authorized by well-known CA Entrust, following the issuing of 22 certificates with weak keys, lacking in usage extensions and revocation information. "There is no indication that any certificates were issued fraudulently, however, these weak keys have allowed some of the certificates to be compromised," wrote Jerry Bryant of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing.

Mississippi Makes Caller ID Spoofing Illegal 258

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @04:21PM from the so-be-sure-to-stop-in-late-june dept.

marklyon writes "HB 872, recently signed into law by Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, makes Caller ID spoofing illegal. The law covers alterations to the caller's name, telephone number, or name and telephone number that is shown to a recipient of a call or otherwise presented to the network. The law applies to PSTN, wireless and VoIP calls. Penalties for each violation can be up to $1,000 and one year in jail. Blocking of caller identification information is still permitted."

Promised Platform-Independent GPU Tech Is Getting Real 102

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @12:51AM from the near-linear dept.

Vigile writes "Last year a small company called Lucid promised us GPU scaling across multiple GPU generations with near-linear performance gains without restrictions of SLI or CrossFire. The company has been silent for some time, but now it is not only ready to demonstrate the 2nd generation hardware, but also to show the first retail product that will be available with HYDRA technology. In this article there is a quick look at the MSI 'Big Bang' motherboard that sports the P55 chipset and HYDRA chip and also shows some demos of AMD HD 4890 and NVIDIA GTX 260 graphics cards working together for game rendering. Truly platform-independent GPU scaling is nearly here and the flexibility it will offer gamers could be impressive."

GTA IV On PC Goes Exclusive With 'Games For Windows Live' 132

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday September 27, 2008 @11:27PM from the yeah-thanks dept.

Erik J writes "Microsoft has announced that the PC version of Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV will exclusively use Games for Windows Live for its multiplayer mode when it hits shelves November 18th. Rockstar founder Sam Houser explained the decision: 'As we work toward the release of the PC version, Games for Windows Live affords us the opportunity to seamlessly translate the multiplayer console experience for PC gamers, the service is a natural fit for the platform and we strongly believe it will help in building a strong online community around GTA IV PC.'" Wired is running a story suggesting that this release could save the rather unpopular Microsoft PC gaming platform.

Comment Not as simple.. (Score 1) 816

by onecaribou on Friday July 11, 2008 @12:28PM (#24153995) Attached to: The Very Worst Uses of Windows

The 'Arrow' example is probably not quite as simple as it appears to be.

We've been running a Jupiter video display processor in our NOC that pipes in a dozen or so vga sources and pipes them out in any sizes, config we choose to 6 outputs.

It runs win2k and has only been down once (unplanned) in the last 5 years and that was due to a generator issue.

While I worked hard to find a 24 X 7 X 365 solution running *nux there were simply no products on the market that met our requirements when we purchased it.

I would imagine that the airport uses a similar system for their signage.

I'm not saying that running windows for this sort of solution is ideal, only that (at least a few years ago) there was nothing else to choose from.

I'm hoping there will be something on the market when our solution reaches it's EOL soon.

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