November 15, 2008 at 1:00 am · Filed under Hardware, News - written by Elliot Gibson
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Now the worlds fastest Super Computer - the Cray XT Jaguar pumps out an amazing 1.64 quadrillion mathematical calculations per second. That’s 1.64 petaflops. After a recent technological overhaul the Cray XT Jaguar is now powered by 45,000 quad-core AMD Opteron processors that use 362 Terabytes of memory (362000 gigabytes).
The Cray XT Jaguar is located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory where it will hopefully create scientific breakthroughs during the day, and succumb to Crysis at night. It will be used for non classified research and has the capability to chew up an enormous 284 gigabytes of data per second. And its storage capacity is 750 terabytes!
November 10, 2008 at 1:00 am · Filed under Hardware, Technology, Videos - written by Elliot Gibson
The Microvision Pico Projector - The ultimate accessory in portable viewing devices. The PicoP is an Ultra miniature projector capable of producing full colour, high-resolution images but still being small enough and low power enough to work with an accessory that it would connect to, like a Mobile device or an iPod.
An accessory Pico projector turns photos, videos, and other content into big viewing experiences that can be shared with others. Projected content is delivered to the accessory projector from common video out connections on cell phones, personal media players, laptops, digital cameras and other mobile devices. Accessory projectors leverage Microvision’s PicoP display engine which at its heart, contains Microvision’s patented MEMS scanner. Other technology components include, laser light sources, optics, and electronics. These components are brought to life using Microvision’s proprietary software and expertise.
I think this really is a great innovative piece of technology. Everything is getting smaller and smaller these days. Soon this projector might even be imbedded into a cellphone or laptop! Would that be amazing? The PicoP projector will be availiable sometime next year. Heres a nice video showing the PicoP in action:
November 4, 2008 at 1:00 am · Filed under Hardware, Technology - written by Elliot Gibson
The new Intel Nehalem Chip will save around $2 Billion in energy cost for up an amazing 20 terabyte hours. This microprocessor has been designed with the environment in mind. The chip does not lose any performance from being so energy efficient which should appeal to a wider range of customers. Intel named the processor “Nehalem” it follows after the Intel Core 2 and Quad series of Processors.
One of the head engineers at Intel said “Going into this project … we insisted on energy efficiency … and power, adding more processing speed to a chip often requires pulling a lot more energy. Meeting this challenge was not an easy one”.
The Nehalem engineers had to alter the processors clock cycle and its operating voltage, both of these use a lot of energy. They point out the biggest energy cut came from reducing the usage on an idle machine as a lot of a processors life is when its idle..
Though you can’t make such an improvement without having some set backs. The catch is the chip still needs to be active enough so that it can receive instructions on command. Usually, processors are fully powered during idle stages in order to receive any instructions. But not anymore, with the new Nehalem microprocessor hopefully computers will save much more power. If it has a good performance rating I would definitely consider purchasing one (depending on the price of course) but if it also saves just that bit more in electricity its probably worth it in the long run aswell. Here’s some very impressive figures:
