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NVIDIA's $10K Tesla GPU-Based Personal Supercomputer 236

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 23, 2008 @04:25AM from the plugs-into-standard-power-strip dept.

gupg writes "NVIDIA announced a new category of supercomputers — the Tesla Personal Supercomputer — a 4 TeraFLOPS desktop for under $10,000. This desktop machine has 4 of the Tesla C1060 computing processors. These GPUs have no graphics out and are used only for computing. Each Tesla GPU has 240 cores and delivers about 1 TeraFLOPS single precision and about 80 GigaFLOPS double-precision floating point performance. The CPU + GPU is programmed using C with added keywords using a parallel programming model called CUDA. The CUDA C compiler/development toolchain is free to download. There are tons of applications ported to CUDA including Mathematica, LabView, ANSYS Mechanical, and tons of scientific codes from molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry, and electromagnetics; they're listed on CUDA Zone."

Submission + - Own Your Own 128-Bit Integer Today!

Submitted by

Byte Swapper

on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @03:31PM

Byte Swapper writes: "After all the fuss over the AACS LA's trying to censor a certain 128-bit number that still has something like two million hits on Google, the Freedom to Tinker folks would like to point out that you too can own your own integer. They've set up a script that will generate a random number, encrypt a copyrighted haiku, and then deed the number back to you. You won't get a copyright on the number or the haiku, but you can turn almost any number you want into an illegal circumvention device under the DMCA, such that anyone subject to US law caught distributing it can be punished under the DMCA's anti-trafficking section, for which the DMCA's Safe Harbor provisions do not apply. So F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C088 is truly mine now, and you can pry it out of my cold, dead hands!"

Feed Ex-editor decries article suggesting he kept child porn (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Monday April 23, 2007 @03:53PM

15,000 porn images found on Mac used by him and others

The former editor for the Santa Barbara News-Press is threatening legal action after the paper published a story suggesting he kept child pornography on his work computer. The furor over Sunday's non-bylined story is the latest salvo in a long and acrimonious battle that has raged between the paper's outspoken publisher and current and former editorial employees that has brought charges of unethical behavior.

Feed Report: Feds preparing case on former Apple lawyer (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Monday April 23, 2007 @03:52PM

Blog: The Securities and Exchange Commission is getting ready to file the first charges in its probe into Apple's stock-option backdating...

Submission + - Why are T1 lines still expensive?

Submitted by badfrog on Monday April 23, 2007 @03:51PM

badfrog writes: Over the last 10 years, DSL and cable modem has upped its speed (although in some instances only slightly) and dropped its price. However, the price of a T1 has stayed almost exactly the same. If you had asked me 10 years ago, I would have predicted any geek that wanted to would have fiber or their own T1 line to the house by now. What is with this sad state of affairs that a 'business class' 1.544Mbit connection is hundreds of dollars more than a 6Mbit cable connection? Is it a legitimate case that a high upload rate should increase cost so significantly?

Submission + - Time Warner Customers Get Wi-Fi Hotspots

Submitted by Hotspots on Monday April 23, 2007 @03:46PM

Hotspots writes: In a big win for a little Wi-Fi startup called Fon, Time Warner Cable Inc. will let its home broadband customers turn their connections into public wireless hotspots, a practice shunned by most U.S. Internet service providers. For Fon, which has forged similar agreements with ISPs across Europe, the deal will boost its credibility with U.S. consumers. For Time Warner Cable, which has 6.6 million broadband subscribers, the move could help protect the company from an exodus as free or cheap municipal wireless becomes more readily available.

Schools Banning Homework? 534

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday March 04, 2007 @08:58AM from the also-thinking-is-hard dept.

theodp writes "Alarmed by indicators of student stress like cheating and substance abuse, some SF Bay Area schools are reducing an education staple: homework. Homework is mostly banned at Menlo Park's Oak Knoll School, but some teachers apparently have higher 'expections' [sic]."

Download And Burn Movies Available Soon 97

Posted by Zonk on Sunday March 04, 2007 @06:15AM from the oh-css-is-there-nothing-you-can't-do dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to an article from PC World, a source close to the CSS Managed Recording forum said that technology which allows movies to be downloaded and burned to blank DVDs, using the same content-protection system as commercial discs, received official approval on Thursday. 'The technology will require discs that are slightly different from the conventional DVD-Rs found in shops today. The burned discs will be compatible with the vast majority of consumer DVD players ... Despite Thursday's approval, services that allow consumers to legally download and burn movies in their own homes are unlikely to appear quickly. The DVD CCA said it will be initially restricted to professional uses. These might include kiosks in retail stores where consumers can purchase and burn discs in a controlled environment.'"

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