Moscow State University Buys Russia's First IBM Blue Gene Supercomputer
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| Moscow State University has agreed to buy two racks of the Blue Gene/P system
| containing 8.192 densely packed microprocessors. The resulting supercomputer
| is expected to run at 27.8 trillion operations per second (Tflop/s), 2,600
| times faster than today's fastest home PC. Based on the current Top500.org
| list, the MSU system would today be amongst the top 50 most powerful
| supercomputers in the world.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/080123/0352154.html
It will run Linux (most likely). Another wee acqisition:
IBM acquires AptSoft Corp.
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| Technology giant IBM Corp. has acquired another Massachusetts software
| company, AptSoft Corp., for an undisclosed amount.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/080123/1580364.html?.v=1
IBM and Microsoft share the same problems, but they have cash piles large
enough to start buybacks and pretend business is booming. Prepare for
Microsoft to pretend all is wonderful (while the coffers are being emptied).
Don't let MSFT fool you. It will try very hard. Nintendo's glory is apparently
genuine:
Nintendo Earnings Nearly Double on Wii
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| Nintendo Earnings Nearly Double on Hit Wii Console, DS Handheld; Sales
| Forecast Revised Upward
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080124/japan_earns_nintendo.html?.v=1
XBox still loses $billions.
Related:
Video game sales see December blowout
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| Nintendo, Activision lead in games; Wii is top console for the year
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/nintendo-activision-lead-video-game/story.aspx?guid=%7B4727D700%2D0946%2D4C22%2DAC39%2D3D905600DB66%7D&siteid=yhoof
http://tinyurl.com/3aphee
Inside Source Reveal the Truth About Xbox 360 "Red Ring of Death" Failures
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| It's around 30%, and all will probably fail early. This quarter they are
| expecting 1 M failures, most of those Xenons. Some of those are repeat
| failures.
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http://www.8bitjoystick.com/archives/jake_inside_source_reveal_the_truth_about_xbox_360_red_ring_of_death_failures.php
Microsoft Admits *ALL* Xbox360's Are Defective
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| Though Robbie Bach, head of Microsoft's Xbox360 Division refused to elaborate
| on the issue, the general consensus is that it's one of botched thermal
| design management and inadequate dissipation of heat leading to component
| failure.
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http://www.fastsilicon.com/latest-news/microsoft-admits-all-xbox360s-are-defective.html?Itemid=60
Linux in more than 90% of top supercomputers
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| Other operating systems, such as AIX (4.8%), Solaris (0.4%) and Mac OS X
| (0.4%) make the list, but Linux is alone at the top, where it is used in 459
| systems or 91.8% of the top supercomputer systems.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/11/15/linux-in-more-than-90-of-top-supercomputers/
http://tinyurl.com/2rponk
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