Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software AMDannounced its next-generation FireStream GPU accelerator boards. * The FireStream 9350 and 9370 represent the company’s attempt to match the pace NVIDIA has set with its “Fermi” Tesla-20 GPU offerings launched this spring. * The dual-slot 9370 device boasts 2.64 teraflops of single precision performance and …
The most recent feedburner count has over 12,000 10,000 (the 12,000 was a feedburner error) subscribers via email or newsreaders to Nextbigfuture. This is over double the same point in 2009. Technorati ranks Nextbigfuture at about the 800th (as of Jan 2011, 480th) most authoritative blog overall. When the Technorati tracking by topic is not …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Inquirer reports that the Nvidia Fermi GPGPU is a power hungry chip, which poses problems for the HPC (High Performance Computing) customers To accommodate Tesla boards Mannel said that SGI and its customers have had to “scale up the cooling infrastructure” to meet the higher …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Northrop Grumman Corporation has set a new electronics performance record with a Terahertz Monolithic Integrated Circuit (TMIC) operating at 0.67 terahertz (THz), or 0.67 trillion cycles per second. (H/T Popular Science Developed at the company’s Simon Ramo Microelectronics Center under a contract with the Defense Advanced …
The Boeing X-51A WaveRider on May 26, 2010 successfully completed the longest supersonic combustion ramjet-powered flight in history — nearly three and a half minutes at a top speed of Mach 5. The previous longest scramjet burn in a flight test was 12 seconds in a hydrogen-based engine in the NASA X-43. UPDATE – August …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Blake thinks that Firefox will decline from 25-30% browser market share to single digit market sharein 3-5 years. I’m pretty skeptical. I think the Mozilla Organization has gradually reverted back to its old ways of being too timid, passive and consensus-driven to release breakthrough products quickly. …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Here is the Kurt Konolige interview. Dr. Konolige is a Stanford professor and a senior researcher at Willow Garage. Willow Garage is a startup robotics company that is focused on aggresively promoting and actively encouraging the long-term development of robotics: Willow Garage is developing robotics hardware and …
There is several places reporting this based on a google blog post. We’re planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We’ll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, …
Technology Review – An Indian telecom company is deploying simple cell phone base stations that need as little as 50 watts of solar-provided power. It will soon announce plans to sell the equipment in Africa, expanding cell phone access to new ranks of rural villagers who live far from electricity supplies. This system will enable …
A hormone responsible for the body’s stress response is also linked to the growth of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, according to JDRF- funded researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California. The findings are the latest advances to underscore the potential for regeneration as a key component of a possible cure for …
China Daily – Do three errors mean breaking point for IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ) ? I was impressed by the presentation of Dr Fred Singer, an atmospheric physicist and founding director of the US Weather Satellite Service, who challenged the IPCC findings with his research data. In the next few days, I …