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  • Oprah Winfrey tweets her love of Surface – from her iPad

    Microsoft's fondleslab not her most favorite

    Media mogul Oprah Winfrey may have named the Microsoft Surface tablet as one of her "favorite things" of 2012, but when she took to Twitter to hype the device, she did so from an iPad. Oprah declared her love for the device in a Twitter post on Sunday, claiming she had already bought twelve of them as Christmas presents. But …

    Business 20 Nov 00:12

  • Platform clouds generating more noise than cash

    All the action is in SaaS and IaaS – and advertising

    There's a lot of talk about infrastructure and platform cloud services, but thus far the cloud biz is a relatively small portion of the $3.6 trillion in global IT spending. But its share is growing fast, and that has a lot of people excited and waving their hands a lot. The prognosticators at Gartner are among the hand wavers …

    Cloud 20 Nov 00:26

  • Restaurateur jailed for customer sex profile revenge plan

    How not to react to a bad online review

    A restaurant owner is facing 90 days of jail time and two years of probation after waging an online smear campaign, including setting up a fake online sex profile, to get revenge on a customer who gave her establishment a bad review. The saga began after of Canadian Elayna Katz went out to dinner at the Mambo Nuevo Latino …

    Business 20 Nov 00:43

  • EINSTEIN'S BRAIN had unusual lobes and cortex

    Newly-uncovered photos also reveal 'large knob' in frontal lobe

    Albert Einstein's brain seems to have been packed full of unusually-configured parts that could explain his unusual intelligence, according to a new study by US scholars. The revelations about the boffin's brain come from the the journal Brain, which carries a paper titled The cerebral cortex of Albert Einstein: a description …

    Science 20 Nov 00:49

  • NASA suggests robotic return to the Moon

    Astronauts could control rover from Lagrange 2 point

    A “return to the Moon” would need an almost unimaginable change in political thinking about the cost of space programs, but that doesn’t stop dreamers from dreaming. A group of researchers that includes members from NASA, Caltech’s JPL, Lockheed-Martin and a handful of high-profile institutions have proposed a human return to …

    Science 20 Nov 02:19

  • Patent trolling to go under anti-trust spotlight

    Report says hearings set for December, with Nokia and Cisco to appear

    America’s Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission are to take a look at whether patent trolls are breaching US anti-trust laws. The Wall Street Journal is reporting (paywalled) that the process will be kicked off by informal hearings in December. That report claims that Cisco and Nokia have confirmed they will …

    Business 20 Nov 03:31

  • Aussie webmail pioneer gets funding boost

    Staying local but launching global

    Australian developed cloud based, webmail provider for enterprises, Atmail will be beefing up its engineering team and expanding internationally following a AUD$2 million injection from VC Starfish Ventures. The 14 year old company, founded in the Blue Mountains, was one of the pioneers in webmail and has been quietly building …

    Business 20 Nov 04:09

  • Sarcastic tweeter jailed for mocking Communist Party

    Petition launched to fight terror charge against still-missing Zhai Xiaobing

    A petition has been launched calling for the release of Zhai Xiaobing, a Chinese blogger who mocked the recent Communist Party Congress in an irreverent tweet and was promptly arrested on terrorism charges. Zhai, a 36-year-old financial worker from Beijing, made the mistake of belittling the Party at its most politically …

    Policy 20 Nov 04:12

  • British Ruby conference cancelled after diversity row

    It started with a tweet about white males in tech

    The British Ruby Conference has been cancelled, after a row started over allegations the speaker roster at the conference is insufficiently diverse. The row seems to have started with a tweet from Josh Susser, a chap who, among other things, organises the Golden Gate RubyConf. Susser's tweet was as follows: “Nice speaker …

    Developer 20 Nov 05:06

  • NSW Information Commissioner sends email to wrong list

    Do as I say, not do as I do

    The Information Commissioner in the Australian state of New South Wales, an officer whose job it is to offer and enforce best information management practice for the State, has apologised after sending an email to the wrong list. The email in question advised of a conference at which the Commissioner, Deirdre O’Donnell, is due …

    Government 20 Nov 05:27

  • Chinese cloud firm offers 'love bonus' to amorous staff

    Chengdu-based start-up in pay-to-pair-up scheme

    A Chinese cloud computing company has taken a novel approach to improving staff morale, ignoring all workplace common sense by encouraging its employees to hook up with each other, and with those of rival firms, in return for a financial reward. Chengdu Cloud Computing, based in the booming tech hub of Chengdu, in western …

    Jobs 20 Nov 05:39

  • London gets huge Defecator Enthroned statue for World Toilet Week

    Your face can be on it, if you GiveAShit. Excrement!

    A giant squatting man has been erected outside the offices of the London mayor in a bid to raise "awareness" of the toilet. The 5-metre high squatting figure next to London's Tower Bridge turns its head to look at passersby and on its face - comprising four large screens - the bending statue hosts photos of members of the …

    Bootnotes 20 Nov 05:57

  • Dell storage still staggering a year after EMC break-up

    Biz failing to gobble own-brand dogfood

    Dell's storage business is not keeping pace with its servers and networking business. This could be a lingering effect of its changed storage strategy, in which it has stopped reselling EMC storage and begun flogging its own acquired Compellent and EqualLogic gear as part of a "converged" solution. But it appears that customers …

    Storage 20 Nov 06:33

  • Ten Linux apps you must install

    Product Round-up Here is the GNUs

    Unless you are operating in the enterprise class, most Linux software is free, which is both a blessing and a hindrance. Sure, there are some truly fantastic apps out there, but all to often you have to wade through a mess of buggy unfinished projects with dependencies on other defunct code to get to what you want. To help with …

    Applications 20 Nov 07:01

  • Cloudy admin? Here's how to ward off Call of Duty-playing teens

    Cheeky little rascals

    Palo Alto Network has gone virtual with the latest version of its next-generation firewall, the VM-Series. The tech, launched last week, is designed to protect virtual and cloud environments and comes as part of a wider industry push to market virtual security appliances. Analysts Infonetics Research says the booming market …

    Security 20 Nov 07:31

  • No hiding now, fandroids: Smartmobe chip STALKS YOU INDOORS

    Vid Cisco, Qualcomm team up to create tracking chip tech

    Qualcomm and Cisco are collaborating to produce better location-tracking technology using networking gear and the Snapdragon chip otherwise found in smartphones. The process uses Cisco's new HotSpot 2.0 wireless routers, which can pinpoint a connected user's position within a couple of metres; good enough for following one …

    Mobile 20 Nov 07:57

  • All-flash-array flogger WhipTail in mad dash to fortify EMEA base

    Quick, before Violin and the others get here

    Self-proclaimed first shipper of an all-flash array, WhipTail, says UK customers are taking to its all-flash arrays in droves, with the company expecting a 1,100 per cent increase in sales this year. But it is expecting the competition to be snapping at its heels fairly shortly, which is why it has recruited an ex-EMC Isilon …

    Storage 20 Nov 08:29

  • 'The People's' cell operator to offer expensive data - but it's for cheridee

    Can't be bothered having a phone and making donations?

    A new mobile phone network in the UK will give a quarter of its profits to charity. The People's Operator, which piggybacks on EE's network, hopes giving cash to good causes will attract customers, who can also direct 10 per cent of their bills to charities of their choice. It's offering rates roughly 20 per cent higher than …

    Mobile 20 Nov 08:56

  • Malware made which can share a smartcard over the internet

    'Use a bank or ID card as though you had it with you'

    Security researchers have developed proof-of-concept malware that allows attackers to obtain remote access to smart card readers attached to compromised Windows PCs. The experimental malware developed by Itrust Consulting allows hackers to share a USB-based smart card reader over the internet. As such the attack goes one step …

    Security 20 Nov 09:24

  • Apple's profits fetish could spell its DOOM

    Open ... and Shut Mobile world will soon be like PCs

    The other shoe is about to drop in the mobile market. For years Apple has dominated mobile, both in terms of market share and in terms of profits. It was an enviable position, and a unique one, borne of Apple's commitment to out-innovating the industry, allowing it to consistently charge a premium for its products. But as the …

    Operating Systems 20 Nov 09:40

  • Hackers break into FreeBSD with stolen SSH key

    Not many servers dead

    Hackers broke into two FreeBSD project servers using an SSH authentication key* and login credentials that appear to have been stolen from a developer, it has emerged. Developers behind the venerable open-source operating system have launched an investigation and have taken a few of the servers offline during their probe, but …

    Security 20 Nov 09:58

  • Certain people rejoice! AC/DC finally available on iTunes

    Primal thumpings now on your fondleslab

    Thumping rockers AC/DC have been remastered for iTunes putting the seminal rocknroll tracks in a digital music store for the first time. AC/DC music has never been sold digitally before record label Columbia cut a deal with Apple, and now all 16 albums are on the store plus two specially packaged digital collections. Apple …

    Media 20 Nov 10:27

  • Glorious silicon globes could hold key to elusive PERFECT kilogram

    Feature El Reg drills into why we need an ultra-accurate mass

    There's a piece of metal more than a century old just outside Paris causing men and women of science a lot of bother. It's considered so important to the world it's kept on land designated international territory, so that no single country can claim it, in a maximum security vault maintained by the International Bureau of …

    Science 20 Nov 11:01

  • Oprah Winfrey too late to save Microsoft's Windows 8

    Signs are that Redmond has produced a turkey this Xmas

    Early signs are showing that hopes for the overnight success of Microsoft's Windows 8 are unrealistic, although the tech giant appears to have bet the farm on the brand new operating system with the shiny new interface. Microsoft blogger Paul Thurrott has quoted one unnamed company source as saying early sales of Windows 8 PCs …

    Operating Systems 20 Nov 11:02

  • Shrewd El Reg plotter shows storage bods in revealing numbers

    The great, the good, the bad and the ugly

    "Spaghetti" storage vendor groups are what you see when you lay bare these firms' quarterly revenue histories in a revealing graph. They fall neatly into four groups: the great, the good, the bad and the ugly. Which group are your suppliers in? Let's kick of this chart-fest with an overall look: Click on chart for larger …

    Storage 20 Nov 11:17

  • How Intel's faith in x86 cost it the mobile market

    And why Paul Otellini's successor needs to embrace corporate heresy

    You can’t fault departing Intel CEO Paul Otellini by claiming he didn't spot the way personal computing was becoming more mobile. He certainly did. But you can argue that his strategy for adapting the chip maker to the trend really wasn’t the right one. But as a 40-year Intel veteran it was never very likely he would reject one …

    Hardware 20 Nov 11:22

  • Sony coaxes indie Vita, Android developers with $99 SDK

    Beta goodbye; Vita good buy?

    Sony has launched an indie-focused portal for developers that includes access to the now-out-of-beta PlayStation Mobile software development kit. The PlayStation Mobile SDK has been available in beta form for quite some time, but Sony has now officially given it the green light and slapped on a $99 (£62) annual usage fee. …

    Developer 20 Nov 11:47

  • Wii U disassembly reveals unusual innards

    Facilitates do-it-yourself fixing

    Nintendo launched Wii U Stateside this past Sunday and while some users have complained of slow performance and freezing issues - something the firm has since addressed - teardown reports suggest potential hardware breakages should be relatively cheap to repair. The heatgun and screwdriver equipped iFixit team cracked open the …

    Games 20 Nov 11:48

  • Yahoo! shares! at! 18! month! high!

    Investors feel slightly better with an ex-Googler at the helm

    Yahoo! shares have climbed to their highest level in a year and a half as investors start to believe once more that the web firm is capable of making money. The stock closed at $18.36 yesterday, not a huge lift, but nevertheless the highest it has been pegged since May 2011. Shareholders seem to think that new chief Marissa …

    Financial News 20 Nov 11:58

  • Kobo Glo illuminated e-reader review

    Read between the covers - and under them

    Kobo’s Glo is yet another of the current wave of e-readers with what amounts to a backlit screen. Yes, the light isn’t situated behind the screen, but let’s not split hairs. The system works by shining LED light through the screen and bouncing it back off a reflective layer toward the reader, but the effect is much the same …

    Tablets 20 Nov 12:00

  • Do you know a chimp who's feeling doleful? Mid-life crisis, probably

    Darwin quote on baboons and metaphysics borne out

    Boffins investigating the feelings of hundreds of chimpanzees, orangutans and varied great apes say that the creatures get depressed in their middle years just as humans - perhaps especially human males - do. They consider that this affirms Charles Darwin's famous dictum to the effect that if we would seek to understand …

    Science 20 Nov 12:08

  • Murdoch Storm: Brooks, Coulson to be CHARGED over BUNGS

    UK media methods scandal means big names in court

    Prime Minister David Cameron's former spin doctor Andy Coulson and Rupert Murdoch's erstwhile right-hand woman Rebekah Brooks are to be charged as part of Scotland Yard's long-running investigation into corrupt payments relating to allegations of phone-hacking at the now-defunct News of the World Sunday tabloid. Alison Levitt …

    Media 20 Nov 12:28

  • EE touts 4G Sim-only tariffs

    How do its one-year contracts compare with rival offerings?

    EE - currently the UK's only 4G network provider - has launched Sim-only plans touting one-year contracts for as little as £21 a month. While that does come with unlimited calls and texts, the package's data allowance is capped at 500MB, which could be gobbled stupendously fast on the firm's speedy network - should users be …

    Mobile 20 Nov 12:37

  • Thank BRIT eggheads for new iMac's sexy seamless knife-edge

    Welding knowhow keeps Apple beyond bleeding

    A little-known British company is the brains behind technology in the new super-slim iMacs that Apple CEO Tim Cook raved about on stage. That admired tech is the tapered aluminium edge at the 5mm-wide end of Apple's latest thin desktops, which were revealed at an event in October. The new thin iMac and its 5mm edge The …

    Hardware 20 Nov 12:57

  • Speaker Bercow's loquacious wife finally silenced - On Twitter

    Legal issues. Hacked. DELETED - not before time, perhaps

    Sally Bercow was silenced on Twitter overnight, following a series of silly tweets that have landed the outspoken speaker's wife in legal hot water. However, it wasn't the threat of libel action from Lord McAlpine's lawyers that apparently shut her micro-blogging gob - instead her account was reportedly hacked into, before it …

    Government 20 Nov 13:30

  • Swollen SUPER-GIGANTO PLANET sighted in Andromeda

    Vasty orb big as 13 Jupiters snapped 170 lightyears off

    A gigantic super-planet has been snapped by astroboffins orbiting the massive star Kappa Andromedae. The super-Jupiter dwarfs any of the planets found in the Solar System, with a mass at least 13 times that of Jupiter and an orbit that is larger than Neptune's. Its host star - Kappa Andromedae - is 2.5 times the size of our …

    Science 20 Nov 13:31

  • HTC: $8 per phone for Apple patents? We're not CRAZY!

    Still won't give Samsung the juice on what it's forking out though

    HTC has rubbished claims that it's paying $6 to $8 per Android phone to keep Apple off its back. The Taiwanese firm reached a settlement for its patent spats with the fruity firm earlier this month, signing a 10-year cross-licensing deal with its one-time enemy. Naturally, neither firm would say what exactly was being paid to …

    Mobile 20 Nov 13:59

  • HP: AUTONOMY 'misrepresented' its value by $5 BILLION, calls in SEC

    UK fraud squad too. Total writedown $8.8 BEEELLION!!

    Hewlett-Packard dropped a bomb this morning in reporting its financial results for its fiscal 2012 year, stating that the British software company Autonomy, which it acquired a little more than a year ago, "outright misrepresented" its own value - leading to a colossal $8.8bn writedown for HP today. In a conference call ahead …

    Financial News 20 Nov 14:11

  • Nintendo downplays Wii U 'hidden control panel' hack fears

    Miiverse admin board just-a mock-a-up, says Mario

    A video games fan claims he accidentally hacked into the online environment (Miiverse) of Nintendo's latest game console, the Wii U. A gamer called Trike claims he stumbled across a secret debug menu in the Miiverse that gave him access to a list of administrators and a control panel, hours after the US release of the console …

    Security 20 Nov 14:12

  • Swedish woman cuffed for sex with skeleton SHOCKER

    Insert your 'boner' JOKE here

    A 37-year-old Swedish woman has been charged with "violating the peace of the dead" after allegedly using human skeletal remains for "sexual gratification". The unnamed boner-lover was cuffed back in September by cops investigating a report of a gunshot at her Gothenburg apartment. Shaken officers "immediately called for back- …

    Bootnotes 20 Nov 14:15

  • Tech Data's Q3 profits dive by more than a fifth

    Currency headwind and price war bitchslap distie giant

    The wheels on distribution juggernaut Tech Data (TD) are continuing to slow with sales and operating profits sliding in Q3. For the three months ended 31 October, turnover fell eight per cent to $6bn from $6.59bn a year earlier but operating profits dived more than 22 per cent to $69.5m. The distie, which recently closed the …

    The Channel 20 Nov 14:21

  • Microsoft's OWN tests on Kin 'social phone' foretold its doom

    'Kin hell, is it 'cos I didn't touch it enough? - tester

    Videos purporting to show Microsoft's internal testing of Kin show just how bad it was, and make Redmond's decision to launch the social phone all the more remarkable. The videos, hosted by Wired, show the two Kin devices that Microsoft lunched back in 2010 being put through their paces, or rather being pushed through them, as …

    Mobile 20 Nov 14:27

  • Greenhouse gases break record again, says top UN weather man

    US down, but pesky poor folk emitting like crazy

    The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has announced that the amount of greenhouse gasses – including the ever-contentious CO2 – increased to record levels in 2011. "These billions of tonnes of additional carbon dioxide in our atmosphere will remain there for centuries, causing our planet to warm further and impacting on …

    Science 20 Nov 14:27

  • Google hires top US traffic fed for DRIVERLESS CARS project

    'Hm, no spaces. Car, drive around 'til I finish drinking'

    Google has signed up the deputy director of the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to work on the company's self-driving cars. Detroit News reported that Ron Medford was moving on from the NHTSA, after working in government roles for more than four decades. He will join the Chocolate Factory as the ad …

    Hardware 20 Nov 14:56

  • Nokia HERE today with decent mapping on Apple devices

    Also towing Amazon app store onto Droids

    iPhone users struggling with Apple's substandard maps app can now get a decent alternative in the shape of Nokia's Here. Here is free, and available now for iPads and Android devices of all shapes and sizes as well as the Jesus mobe. For Apple users, Here is a sensible alternative to Cupertino's disastrous satnav-like app that …

    Applications 20 Nov 15:26

  • Register boffinry confab: Mass debate on the Perfect Kilogram

    Live Chat Readers have their say (but don't weigh in)

    For more than a century the world has relied upon a lump of metal protected under high security in a location outside Paris to accurately measure the kilogram. Problem is, the metal lump's mass might not actually amount to one kilogram - meaning the kilogram as you know it is wrong. Now, more than 30 years since they began …

    Science 20 Nov 16:00

  • Brussels blesses British BDUK broadband boost blurt

    £530m cash prizes cleared for largely one-horse races

    Maria Miller's mercy dash to Brussels earlier this month appears to have paid off, after the European Commission confirmed today that it had cleared £530m in state aid investment for broadband deployment in the UK - along with what appear to be limp-wristed concessions. "BDUK [Broadband Delivery UK], as a national competence …

    Broadband 20 Nov 16:11

  • PCs punch HP in the gut, servers knee it in the jewels

    Oh, if only we'd used Autonomy software on its own books

    It has been a long time since Hewlett-Packard has had a happy quarter, and it looks like it is going to have to wait quite a while to have one again if its final quarter of fiscal 2012 is any indication. In the quarter ended on October 31, it was mostly tricks, not treats, with revenues off 6.7 per cent to $29.96bn and after …

    Financial News 20 Nov 16:22

  • Facebook starts going encrypted by default in North America

    Only WE are allowed to spy on you ... bitch

    Facebook is finally deploying secure browsing for its 1-billion-strong userbase over the coming weeks. It confirmed the move on its developers' blog last week: As announced last year, we are moving to HTTPS for all users. This week, we're starting to roll out HTTPS for all North America users and will be soon rolling out to …

    Networks 20 Nov 16:57

  • Wang's 'surging growth' to help tablets overcome notebooks in 2013

    Analyst projects Android ascension, Apple slippage

    Your notebook is about to become passé. Shipments of tablets will outpace those of notebooks for the first time next year. So says DigiTimes Research analyst James Wang, who predicts global tablet shipments will rocket to 210 million in 2013, an increase of 38.3 per cent on 2012. Of that number, Wang projects that Apple will …

    Business 20 Nov 17:25

  • Apple, Spotify, Amazon: All your Cloud are belong to us, says firm

    Lawyers don ten-gallon hats, jingling spurs

    A San Jose company has claimed that it owns the technology used by Apple in its iCloud, by Spotify in its streaming service and by Amazon in its Cloud Player. It has filed three separate IP lawsuits against the firms for making digital data available to people over a computer network. Innovative Automation LLC, whose business …

    Law 20 Nov 17:51

  • Quantum crypto - with nothing more than STANDARD broadband fibre

    Theoretical un-crackability cracked

    Boffins have worked out how to run quantum cryptography systems over a standard broadband fibre in a development that brings theoretically unbreakable encryption closer to mainstream use. Traditionally it has been necessary to use dedicated fibre to send the single photons (particles of light) that are required for Quantum Key …

    Security 20 Nov 17:58

  • Microsoft building poo-powered carbon-neutral data center

    Sewage plant systems profitably full of crap

    Microsoft is spending $5.5m to build a data center in the Wyoming hills that's powered by methane created from the waste of its nearby residents, and sees a lot of opportunity for mixing computing and crap. The methane produced by decomposing waste at sewage farms has traditionally either been left to float off into the …

    Datacenter 20 Nov 19:13

  • 4chan founder Moot threatens site for using his handle

    Claims 'moot' is 'a famous trademark'

    The 4chan community site has been home to all manner of jokes, pranks, intentionally offensive imagery, and other juvenilia since it launched in 2003, but one thing it apparently takes very seriously is "Moot," the online handle of its founder, Christopher Poole. As reported by the Betabeat website, attorneys for Poole sent a …

    Law 20 Nov 20:28

  • World's oldest digital computer successfully reboots

    TNMOC's boffins help bring back WITCH

    After three years of restoration by the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC), the world's oldest functioning digital computer has been successfully rebooted at a ceremony attended by two of its original developers. The Harwell Dekatron fully restored (click to enlarge) The 2.5 ton Harwell Dekatron, later renamed the …

    Hardware 20 Nov 20:30

  • Autonomy to HP: bollocks

    ‘We have been ambushed’

    The HP-Autonomy spat has, predictably, turned into a high-profile slanging match, with Autonomy founder Mike Lynch firing back at Meg Whitman via the Wall Street Journal. Hewlett-Packard has sensationally written down the value of the software company it acquired last year by nearly $US9 billion, and blamed Autonomy for “ …

    Business 20 Nov 21:37

  • Quickflix top brass exec exits

    Sudden moves ahead of funding news

    Australian IPTV aspirant Quickflix has suffered a sudden executive exodus ahead of a pending announcement on a new mystery strategic investor. In a surprise move Quickflix CEO Chris Taylor and deputy chairman Justin Milne have both announced their departures from the company. Another non-executive director, Susan Hunter, is …

    Business 20 Nov 21:51

  • Kiwi Googleplex comes clean on unauthorised data

    Waves certificate proving it has really, truly, wiped Wi-Fi trove

    The New Zealand Privacy Commissioner has confirmed that Google has finally destroyed the ill-gotten data scooped up from unsecured WiFi networks during its Street View filming across New Zealand. The antipodean Googleplex had earlier claimed that that it had securely destroyed its payload information, but in early October, …

    Security 20 Nov 21:52

  • Minister intervenes in Oz spectrum auction

    ‘Red undies day’ arrives

    Australia’s communications minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, who famously told Australian telcos they’d wear red undies on their heads if he told them to, has stepped into the auction process for new mobile spectrum. His intervention comes amid speculation that the troubled state of Vodafone would leave Telstra and Optus as …

    Government 20 Nov 22:38

  • Application transformation: Ready Steady Go!

    Measure twice, cut once

    Old software never dies, it just functionally decomposes. When applications reach the end of their lifecycle, they can hang around, ghostlike, creating support and infrastructure costs, or they can be made useful again. Application transformation is a key part of that process, but what is involved? The driver for application …

    ALM 20 Nov 22:43

  • German city dumping OpenOffice for Microsoft

    Freiburg city council called 'clueless'

    The city council of Freiburg, Germany has voted to switch the city's productivity software from OpenOffice to Microsoft Office, reversing an open source software policy that has been in place since 2007. In a move that angered local open source advocates, including council members from the Green and Pirate Parties, the council …

    Applications 20 Nov 22:50

  • SGI UV 2000 supers are Intel and Nvidia inside

    Cheap flops flip bits in shared memory super and rackers

    Supercomputer makers used to stuffing processors and networks into machines to build clusters or shared memory systems have to adapt their machines to take advantage of various kinds of compute accelerators that offers cheaper flops, and Silicon Graphics is no exception. To that end, the company has reworked its high-end UV …

    HPC 20 Nov 23:27