Without a doubt, Sony's PS3 is one of the most powerful gaming machines ever released, but it seems that its raw computing power can be put to other uses (beside that of letting gamers play the latest titles), since the US Airforce has just built a supercomputer featuring no less than 1,760 PS3s, that delivers a... |
13 December 2010
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Sony's PlayStation 3 is becoming less and less of a gaming console with the introduction of all sorts of applications, but, recently, the platform has become even less of an entertainment system. Just last week, we saw that the PS3's Cell processor was being used by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcemen... |
24 November 2009
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With over 600 packages installed and 2500 new ones available via the EPEL repository, Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 made its appearance on the Linux scene last night, June 29th, when Fixars Solutions announced its availability via the YDL.net Enhanced accounts. The good news when it comes to this second maintenance release of... |
30 June 2009
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With the next-generation Radeon and GeForce graphics cards slated to be released sometime next year, and with Intel's Larabee unlikely to launch until early 2010, a new video card is expected to hit the market in the upcoming days. Built on a graphics processor that hasn't been developed by AMD, NVIDIA or V... |
12 November 2008
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While everyone is now talking about the latest Intel Centrino 2 technology, one of the three of Toshiba's newest notebooks isn't all about this Intel mobile platform. Despite the fact that Toshiba announced the products one month ago, it is just now that we can finally get to take a closer look at their tec... |
16 July 2008
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The first Quad Core HD processor notebook has been unveiled by Toshiba America Information Systems' Digital Products Division. The new mobile PC features a Cell-based chip said to be able to offer a "revolutionary high-definition, multimedia user experience". The name of the notebook is Qosmio G55-Q802, and it c... |
15 July 2008
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Today IBM Corp. announced a next-generation Cell processor, geared especially for computer servers. The PowerXCell 8i is intended to provide sustained petaflops performance and it is tested on the Road Runner system for the world's first supercomputer status. IBM wants its servers to pass the petaflops barrier a... |
13 May 2008
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Toshiba's got new goodies coming for the folks with their attention focused on CES 2008 these days and among them, the famous company included the successor to the acclaimed HD TV. This new TV brings next-gen to the world of high-tech electronics by incorporating the PS3's Cell processor. This uber chip wa... |
11 January 2008
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Dr Gaurav Khanna is a professor at the University of Massachusetts. He has been renting supercomputers at NASA and the US National Science Foundation for US$20,000-$30,000 a year to run complicated calculations on just how much radiation is emitted in the process of a black hole swallowing a star. Khanna says that th... |
5 November 2007
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The PlayStation 3 console is not only one of the most advanced gaming devices in the world, but also the perfect tool in the research of robotics. A couple of UCI students used the console to take part in IMB's Cell Broadband Engine Professor University Challenge. The three youngsters worked together with two D... |
15 October 2007
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It looks like there's more to why the PS3 doesn't sell than its price. Well, not that developers didn't hint at this before; but now, EA's confirming it loud and clear, literally. According to PSXExtreme, a NASCAR developer (supposedly) from EA Tiburon confirmed that the two giants aren't get... |
30 August 2007
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In a recent interview with GameInformer, Sony's Phil Harrison was asked about PlayStation Home and how everything was coming along. The man's answer was brief: "We have said that, if the beta trial is successful, that the service will go live in October." PS Home is pretty much all the PS3 has to offer (in ... |
28 June 2007
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News on one of my favourite games. Goody! An exclusive interview with Gran Turismo producer Kazunori Yamauchi in the June issue of French gaming mag Joypad revealed some juicy details about the upcoming installment of the driving simulator. For example, they'll be taking full advantage of the Playstation3'... |
1 June 2007
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The PS3 isn't moving a toe anywhere in the world, yet Ken Kuataragi, the father of PlayStation (recently stepped off from the position of Chairman and chief executive officer of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.), hints at the PlayStation4 console. WHAT? That's right, PS4 and maybe more. Hey, that rhymes! E... |
1 May 2007
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