July 31st, 2003
The world’s fastest Linux supercomputer will be built by IBM for a Japanese research organisation. This computer will primarily use the just launched AMD Opteron 64-bit processor to deliver over 10 trillion calculations per second. The news at
IDG. The bottomline is that Japan will now be home to two of the top three supercomputers in the world.
The article also has a word or two about the new Cray supercomputer also based on the AMD Opteron processor which will displace the Japanese machine by delivering a a peak performance of around 40 trillion calculations per second.
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July 30th, 2003
Read this very thought-provoking
article at Wired on how instant messanging is helping bridge the communications gap in Iraq. The people there use it widely as an affordable alternative to expensive and often unavailable telecom network.
An interesting sideline: My friend’s uncle (an economist with the World Bank) told me that how international long-distance calls in Kampala (the capital of Uganda, Africa) is much more expensive than in the remote villages. The remote villages are connected to the world by Voice over IP whereas the capital has to make do with standard telephone lines.
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July 29th, 2003
Infoworld is going ga-ga over the new
IBM fab facility . (Fab is an acronymized version of fabrication plant). This facility has instantly put IBM into one of the world’s top semiconductor manufacturing companies. (I recently posted a news about AMD and IBM collaborating on design and manufacture of the next generation of microprocessors).
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July 29th, 2003
Ever wondered why companies are busy outsourcing? Dilbert has some answers
here.
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July 29th, 2003
Ever wondered why companies are busy outsourcing? Well Dilbert offers the answer
here.
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July 29th, 2003
Infoworld has this interesting
article on the challenges facing Intel. Intel reckons that they often have to fight it out with their biggest customers who often have similar products and design teams in house.
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July 28th, 2003
Geek.com has this interesting
story on the Slashdot effect. (Slashdot effect for the uninformed is what happens to your site when the site is recommended on
Slashdot one of the true geek bellweathers of the internet.
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July 28th, 2003
I am delighted to present
quizzing.blogspot.com. This site is for avid quizzers from everywhere, especially from IMT. Drop in some time. You can also submit your questions to be put up online.
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July 28th, 2003
Computerworld has Bill Gates
saying that all the promises of the dot com age are going to come true sooner than later.
So it means that he will come to rule the world
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July 25th, 2003
Fancy saving the enviornment and money in a single shot? Well, next time instead of diesel try some vegetable oil for your car. The story is Wired
here. I also saw a recent documentary on Bougainville in Indonesia which has shifted to locally produced coconut oil from diesel.
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July 25th, 2003
More AMD based supercomputer news
here. The Chinese have been quick to spot the opportunity offered by the new Opteron processor. They are clobbering together a 10TeraFLOP machine using 2000 Opteron CPUs. I wonder why does our government (India) have to shout its head off when they barely managed to make a 1TeraFLOP computer using UltraSPARC chips.
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July 25th, 2003
The AMD Opteron has started gathering a respected fan following. Cray recently
announced its new 40 TeraFLOP supercomputer will use 10,368 AMD Opterons linked using AMD developed Hypertransport technology.
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July 25th, 2003
The eternal battle of RISC vs CISC continues. The story
here says that the new Mars Rovers will be RISC powered.
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July 25th, 2003
AMD (Opteron) is already outselling Intel (Itanium) in the 64-bit processor market inspite of coming in about a year late. The story is
here.
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July 25th, 2003
Science Daily
reports that deep sea hydro-thermal vents may hold the clue to the birth of life on this planet.
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