NVIDIA unleashes “affordable” supercomputer November 18, 2008
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A few months ago, Cray announced their CX1 desktop super computer starting at $25,000. Its a desk-side case with slots for mother boards containing Intel Xenon microprocessors and some NVIDIA Tesla GPU cards. Not to be out down, NVIDIA announced today their own personal supercomputer.
Europe on sale November 17, 2008
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If you live in New York City, you can’t help but to notice all the European tourists. The scurry down Broadway, like sewer rats, buying all sorts of stupid expensive crap. Well guess what? The tables are turned. The USD is absolutely soaring: compared to either the Euro or the British Pound, the USD is seriously rocking. Just look at the charts.
No Christmas for Citi November 17, 2008
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The AP reports that Citigroup is cutting another 53,000 jobs in the coming quarter, mostly in New York and London. Its too bad that many have to worry about their job security especially since Thanksgiving and Christmas are right around the corner. Unfortunately, Citi decided to hire way too many people, for a total of 375,000 employees at the peak, during the good times. Citigroup Chairman said “What all of us have done — and perhaps injudiciously — we’ve added a lot of people over … this very benign period”
I guess some folks will need to send out some resumes with those Christmas cards.
Shanghai makes AMD stock move November 15, 2008
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To bad that movement is down. AMD has announced Shanghai and its too little too late. Its nice that they shrunk the Opteron down to 45 nm and tripled the L3 cache to 6 MB and maintained socket compatibility. Unfortunately, one big feature - Hyper-transport 3.0 - will not be enabled on this chip until a new motherboard chipset comes out in the second half of 2009. It is incredibly stupid to release a new processor and not provide at the same time a chipset to take advantage of all the new features. Why make IT managers wait 6+ additional months to purchase a system?
IE 8 sucks! October 28, 2008
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is a worthless piece of garbage. For the past several days, I’ve been trying to install it on my desktop. After some research, I realize that it might not even be worth the effort. According to several sites, including Microsoft’s own, their are weird issues with installing IE8 Beta and Windows XP computers with Service Pack 3.