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(TG Daily) Nvidia updates CUDA : Tesla support for Windows Vista

Article Excerpt:

"Nvidia has released a new version of its CUDA platform that exploits the GPGPU capabilities of its graphics processors. There are no new features, but the SDK now supports added support for Windows Vista, Red Hat Linux as well as VisualStudio 2008 on Windows XP.
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The company now offers version 2.1 beta as a free download, adding Windows Vista support for Tesla products and 32-bit debugger support for CUDA on RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.x, which is a separate download. Also supported is VisualStudio 2008 support on Windows XP and Vista and Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation for applications that dynamically generate CUDA kernels.
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According to Nvidia, new interoperability APIs for Direct3D 9 and Direct3D 10 have been included to accelerate the communication with DirectX applications. There is also “a series of improvements to OpenGL interoperability” as well as “support for recent releases of Linux including Fedora9, OpenSuse 11 and Ubuntu 8.04.”"

(TG Daily) Intel ships 160 GB solid state disk drives

[MV4T editor preface / comment: We have been quite pleased with the Intel 80GB X25-M SSD product, and have been using them in our servers, workstations, and desktops since their initial release in 2008. Prices for the 80GB are now ~$550 at retail. We now look forward to even higher capacities with the new Intel 160GB SSD products.]

Article Excerpt:

"The power consumption should be about 0.15 watts under load.
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Since they are based on the same multi-level cell technology as the 80 GB X25-M (the “m” actually stands for “mainstream”) model, we would expect similar performance data – read speeds of up to 250 MB/s and write speeds of about 70 MB/s...competition in this high-performance SSD segment is increasingly competitive, which provides hope that these [160GB Intel] drives may cost less than $1000."

(AnandTech) Intel Xeon 5570: Smashing SAP records (includes performance graph)

[MV4T editor preface / comment: WOW! We look forward to selling the new Xeon 55xx processors that are based on the architecture of the Core i7 - outrageous and nearly unbelievable performance gains appear real, and should lead to incredible power savings for the same computer performance, as demonstrated in these SAP Enterprise application performance figures!]

Article Excerpt:

"The Xeon 5570 is based on the same architecture as the Core i7. It is a 2.93 GHz quadcore CPU with 4 times a 256 KB L2-cache and one huge shared 8 MB L3.
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The SAP numbers are absolutely astonishing, as Intel's dual socket is able to outperform quad socket opteron machines. Based on the scaling of Barcelona, we speculate that a quad Shanghai at 2.7 GHz would obtain the performance of the Dual Xeon 5570 w/o HT. The new Xeon 5570 outperforms the "old" 5450 by 119%!!!

These numbers are so high, that we checked and checked again. The database used is the same (SQL Server 2005),..."

(InformationWeek) Solid-State Drives In The Data Center (includes data center power-consumption stats)

Article Excerpt:

"Here are some widely acknowledged facts about the current energy consumption of data centers:
• Incremental U.S. demand for data center energy between now and 2010 is the equivalent of about 10 new power plants • Worldwide energy consumption of the data center doubled between 2000 and 2006 • Data center electricity consumption is almost .05% of world production • The average data center consumes energy equivalent to 25,000 households • The average cost of utilities for a 100,000-square-foot data center is running at a staggering $5.9 million annually."

(Intel) Silicon Photonics (optics technology and the computing industry)

Site Excerpt:

"Intel has collaborated with industry, academic, and government partners to develop a silicon-based avalanche photodetector (APD). APDs are light sensors that process optical communications to electrical signals.
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Over time, Intel's vision is to develop integrated, high-volume silicon photonic chips that could dramatically change the way that enterprises use photonics links for their systems and networks. Simply having photonics could eliminate bandwidth and distance limitations, allowing for radically new flexible architectures capable of processing data more efficiently."

(Climate Savers Computing) Climate Savers Computing Initiative Overview - a necessary initiative.

Site Excerpt:

"Started by Google and Intel in 2007, the Climate Savers Computing Initiative is a nonprofit group of eco-conscious consumers, businesses and conservation organizations.
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As participants in the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, computer and component manufacturers commit to producing products that meet specified power-efficiency targets, and corporate participants commit to purchasing power-efficient computing products."

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