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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