Oak Ridge (ip-192.com): The Kraken, a Cray XT5 supercomputer owned and operated by the University of Tennessee, did allow scientists unprecedented simulations of a key class of proteins involved in drug detoxification. Jerome Baudry and Yinglong Miao, who are jointly affiliated with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of [...]
AMD: New graphic cards HD 6850 and 6870
October 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Sunnyvale (ip-192.com): A new series of Radeon HD graphic cards for gamers has been released by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). The HD 6850 and 6870 graphics cards take advantage of Microsoft’s DirectX 11 technology with Shader 5.0 and DirectCompute 11 in Windows 7 and compete with Nvidia’s GTX 460. While both manufacturers claim to [...]
The long goodbye: AMD retires ATI brand
August 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Markham (ip-192.com): It has been a long "Goodbye" but now it's official: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will retire the ATI brand. AMD acquired the major Canadian designer and supplier of graphics processing units and motherboard chipsets in 2006. As a fabless semiconductor company, ATI specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor [...]
Opteron 4122: First server chip for $99
June 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Sunnyvale (ip-192.com): AMD's Opteron 4122 is the first 4-core server chip to break the $100 price barrier. The chip is part of AMD’s 4100 family of chips that come in 4- and 6-core variants to power 1 and 2P systems. What the Sunnyvale, California based company calls CoolCore technology makes them suitable for thermally constrained [...]
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