• Tegra K1 benchmark. Impressive but not so great!

    The Tegra K1 is a GPU chipset by Nvidia which is meant to be off limits and gives a strong processing power to the little PCs. The chip comes with 192 core Graphics processing units and is very much powerful than the GPUs inside the Xbox 360 and the PS3….

  • Microsoft sells over 1 million Xbox One units under 24 hours.

    The Xbox One, the gaming device of the future indeed. Microsoft sold its latest iteration of the Xbox- the Xbox 720 as it was previously rumored and the Xbox one as it is now known. The sales recorded around 1 million in just under 24 hours. That is a feat to…

  • Qualcomm Announces New Quad-core Chips

    Qualcomm, one the most bigges chipset manufacturers of the world have unveiled a new processor known as Quad-Core Snapdragon processor which will be available by the beginning of 2012. There will be three models of these processors, one is single-core processor (MSM8930), second one is dual-core processor (MSM8960) and third…

  • eSATA Newertech USB 3.0 Adapter

    Are you worried about slower data transfer rates? There is a solution for this, Newertech eSATA USB 3.0 Adapter which transfers data for you at a speed not less than 5.0 Gb/s for eSATA hard drives. What you need to do is just connect the Adapter to your hard drive…

  • Intel announces Sandy Bridge Processors for 2011

    Intel has been launching new processors to improve the performance of the PCs. They have been doing this in a regular interval of time. Now, they have announced one more processor named as Sandy Bridge processor which will start shipping from April 2011. According to Intel, the 2011 CPU has…

  • Intel launches New processors

    Depending on the growing needs and increase in required speed, Intel has launched some of its New processors which can accelerate the current speed. The New processors launched by Intel are i7, i5 and Xeon. These processors are mainly focused on delivering High Quality Audio, Video and High Speed Internet Access. The new processors are…

  • Dell PowerEdge T310 Server

    Dell Inc. has launched a new server computer with Intel Xeon processor. It has got 1GB RAM and is termed to be one of the fastest servers in the market. The DellTM  PowerEdgeTM  T310 server delivers enterprise-level performance, redundancy and comprehensive manageability options in a 1-socket tower that is simple to…

  • Water-cooled IBM supercomputers for 2010

    IBM and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich plan to build a water-cooled supercomputer whose surplus heat will be re-used to heat the university’s buildings. The Aquasar supercomputer will be located at the ETH Zurich facility, and it will start operations next year that is by middle of 2010….

  • Petascale Grids used to explore Evolutionary History

    Researchers  at Georgia Tech, the University of South Carolina, and the Pennsylvania State University have been employing Petascale Supercomputing Grids to analyze the evolution of organelles among organisms and study the evolutionary history. We’ve all known for several years now that the chimpanzees also share 96 % of the human…

  • SGI installs Ireland’s fastest supercomputer in 3 hours

    Ireland’s most powerful computer was installed in three hours and powered up in just one day, thanks to a rapidly deployable computing platform from Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI).  The installation was carried out at Irish Centre for High-Performance Computing, new SGI Altix ICE system powers climate change and life sciences…

  • IBM’s Blue Gene exploring Protein Folding mystery

    IBM’s Blue Gene project has resulted in a new frontier in the Super computing arena.  Blue Gene systems are being employed by scientists and researchers worldwide to find solutions and run applications for the benefit of the mankind.   Blue Gene systems are being extensively used to find out the…

  • IBM’s Roadrunner – Fastest Super Computer

    The new Roadrunner supercomputer is the first such machine capable of executing more than 1 quadrillion (1,000 trillion) floating point operations per second, a computation rate otherwise known as 1 petaflop. Roadrunner – IBM’s latest offing in the Super Computer arena tops the Top500 Super Computing list.  The 32nd edition…