AT&T breach reveals 114,000iPad owners' email addresses, including some elite customers

Did you hear about the guruplug server? It's not fast, but it almost runs without power ;)

Maybe we can get BOINC to run on it aswell... :)

http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-guruplugdetails.aspx

Supercomputer plays 'Jeopardy'

Remember when IBM's Deep Blue computer defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in May 1997? IBM is ready to challenge human knowledge again with their supercomputer named "Watson". Watson will compete against human players in the game of Jeopardy, although it does have a tendency to crash or answer a series of questions incorrectly. The supercomputer has already completed against humans in IBM's development environment, but there are reports that the computer may make an appearance on the actual television show, Jeopardy....

mikaok, very interesting to read.
I would love such a study with the new Nvidia Fermi chip. The Fermi chip cannot be compared to the GTX280. The GTX280 was first designed for graphic processing and could be used through a library CUDA to do number crunching and the study well shows the limitations and issues.
But the Fermi is the opposite. It has been first designed for number crunching and can be also used for graphic processing. Nvidia wants to entre the supercomputer business and Fermi is a new generation of chips for that end.

Tomorrow the GTX460 is due to be released.


Reference Specs:
Chip clock: 675MHz, Memory clock: 900MHz, Shader clock 1350MHz • Chip: GF104 • Memory interface: 192-bit • Stream processors: 336 • Texture units: 42 • Manufacturing process: 40nm • Max. power consumption: 150W • DirectX: 11 • Shader model: 5.0 • Construction: dual-slot • Special features: HDCP support, SLI

If the prices are correct (From 175 Euro inc) then it looks like a much better card than the GTX465 in terms of value for money; the performance is about 3% shy of the GTX465, but it uses 50W less power at stock and should clock much higher.

There will also be Non-Reference cards:
Palit NE5X460HF1102 GeForce GTX 460

Chipset Manufacturer NVIDIA
GPU GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi)
Core Clock 800MHz
Shader Clock 1600MHz
Stream Processors 336 Processor Cores

That factory OC'd card is 18.5% faster than reference design; which would of course make it about 15% faster than a GTX465 (going by some pre-reviews). This is better design than the earlier cards.
PS. I can run Folding and GPUGrid Work Units on a Fermi at the same time!

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For GTX 460 details see Ryan Smiths review here,
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3809/nvidias-geforce-gtx-460-the-200-king
"With the addition of superscalar abilities, GF104 marks the slow-but-steady merger of the CPU and the GPU."