the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Nebojsa Novakovic the Inquirer , Tuesday 19 August 2008. 15:05:00 IDF San Francisco Intel gives full house demo ASIDE FROM Nehalem and Larrabee talks, the star of the Day 1 show at IDF was the new lineup of Intel SSD SATA-2 drives. The slim black units, initially available in 32 GB SLC and 80 GB MLC flavours, claim record-breaking read and write speeds....
the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Nebojsa Novakovic the Inquirer , Wednesday 1 October 2008. 11:28:00 Exclusive Benchmarketing Lady Sandra goes down to Dunnington town INTEL'S Jones Farm facility in Oregon hosts the performance benchmarking labs for the cream of the crop of Intel system platforms. Some of them, like the brand new six-core times four-socket Dunnington Xeon 7400 series were lurking in a humongous black...
the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Nebojsa Novakovic the Inquirer , Wednesday 1 October 2008. 08:17:00 Comment Just a bit of luck, or AMD getting back on track? COMPARE SHANGHAI and Barcelona, and you couldn't find two more different cities - yes, both are cosmopolitan and famous, plus of course fun to be in. However, Barcelona is a symbol of Mediterranean relaxed slow lifestyle with long afternoon 'siestas' and midnight...
the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Nebojsa Novakovic the Inquirer , Tuesday 30 September 2008. 18:34:00 Mobile showdown Core 2 vs Turion64 Ultra BOTH Intel's Montevina and AMD's Puma mobile platforms have been a bit late to come out, but their features quickly changed the shape of the notebooks shipping during the summer break. Both got updated memory (and FSB for Intel), an integrated 3D graphics boost, smooth HD video...
the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Nebojsa Novakovic the Inquirer , Tuesday 30 September 2008. 08:29:00 HPC Watch IDC Conference part 2 LAST WEEK WE BROUGHT YOU IDC analysis on the current HPC state, with some observations of our own. This time, let's see what are the chances for the expansion of HPC beyond academia, as well as some expectations for the near future of this - still more technically than financially...
the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Nebojsa Novakovic the Inquirer , Monday 29 September 2008. 09:52:00 First INQpressions DDR3-1900 at stock 1.5 volts! THE FOCUS ON MEMORY overclocking was, up until now, how to get the maximum bandwidth at minimum latency at the highest workable voltage. Since, on Intel platforms, you could independently set the North Bridge and DDR memory controller voltage - often way higher than the...
the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Nebojsa Novakovic the Inquirer , Monday 29 September 2008. 12:52:00 First INQpressions E-ten Glofiish V900 Product: Glofiish V900 web: www.glofiish.com THE DVB-T MOBILE digital television format has finally taken off in a few places - Taiwan has a dozen channels for your personal enjoyment there, if you're familiar with the lingo, of course....
the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Nebojsa Novakovic the Inquirer , Friday 26 September 2008. 16:48:00 With some Singapore spice RED HAT WILL announce its first high performance computing optimised distro, the Red Hat HPC on 7 October. The distro is a step forward from the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Compute Nodes....
the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Nebojsa Novakovic the Inquirer , Thursday 25 September 2008. 11:54:00 Chill out WE'VE DISCUSSED the high performance alternatives to water cooling many times on these pages - from Asetek freezers to Biohazard cascaded engines. Thermaltake is among the first Taiwanese vendors to enter the 'advanced' cooling arena....
the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Nebojsa Novakovic the Inquirer , Thursday 25 September 2008. 10:26:00 IDC HPC Conference Singapore 2008 Slings and arrows HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING - the area where supercomputers and clusters rule the roost - is the pinnacle of the computer speed pyramid, but not its profit pyramid unfortunately. Some of the landmark deals in this business are a marketing expense....
the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
Nebojsa Novakovic the Inquirer , Monday 15 September 2008. 08:19:00 Globaltronics 2008 Singapore Yes, they still do make money. BESIDE THE FLASHY Computex and CeBIT for showing off finished goods, there are also exhibitions for the contract manufacturers and their component and machinery makers, which attract far less attention but cover no less large business....
the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Nebojsa Novakovic the Inquirer , Monday 1 September 2008. 11:01:00 Analysis Intel DSP follows Creative path ONE PARTICULAR talk during Intel's International Developer Forum was innocently named "Audio Architecture for Mobile PC Power Consumption Reduction" - sounds boring, doesn't it? Well, under the guise of this long title hid the unveiling of a major shift for generic PC audio after...
the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Nebojsa Novakovic the Inquirer , Monday 1 September 2008. 08:11:00 GPGPU Watch All the (G)flops OUR BRITISH friends behind the famed Sandra benchmark suite, are putting in some serious work to push forward the suite in face of the increasing competition like Everest and such. After all, Sisoftware Sandra has been popular for a long time due to its rich graphics, multitude of CPU, memory...
the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
Nebojsa Novakovic the Inquirer , Friday 29 August 2008. 16:04:00 Post-Nvidia, pre-Larrabee... THE JUST FINISHED Nvision marked the end of Nvidia's high end chipset platform endeavours too. The last day, with its X58 Tylersburg chipset SLI support announcement via paid BIOS "keys", was the fitting end to it....
the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Nebojsa Novakovic the Inquirer , Thursday 28 August 2008. 09:36:00 Doubled speed without doubled clocks AS EXPECTED, the PCI Express third-generation specification is getting close to its final shape. During IDF, there were some interesting insights on the tricks applied, and how they may affect the usage in that new high-bandwidth mode....
