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: Mathew Ingram at GigaOm has an excellent post describing a couple of recent moves by Facebook that reek of censorship, although in both cases the company said it was mistaken. For many who may have become overly reliant on Facebook, it’s a good reminder to keep in mind that what we have come to think of as a “public space” is subject to that company’s rules and whims.
One case involved popular movie critic Roger Ebert, a prolific tweeter who has taken some heat for his remark that “friends don’t let jack.. drive drunk” after Ryan Dunn died in a car accident. Ebert has since apologized, and according to CBS,, his Facebook page, which was taken down, was restored after an hour |
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comScore Releases May 2011 U.S. Search Engine Rankings
RESTON, VA, June 10, 2011 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in May with 65.5 percent of search queries conducted. The May 2011 qSearch data represents the second month of results including the impact of Yahoo! Search Direct, Yahoo!’s new feature that delivers search results in real-time while users type their query. U.S. Explicit Core Search Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in May with 65.5 percent market share (up 0.1 percentage points), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 15.9 percent and Microsoft Sites with 14.1 percent. Ask Network accounted for 2.9 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.5 percent. |
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Japanese supercomputer is world's fastest
A Japanese supercomputer has been ranked the world's fastest in computing speed, performing 8.162 quadrillion calculations per second. It was the first time in seven years that a Japanese supercomputer was rated the fastest in the world. A quadrillion is 1,000 trillion. The 37th edition of the world's top 500 list for supercomputers was announced at the 2011 International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg on Monday.... |
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mikaok
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An early peak at the forthcoming AMD 8-core Bulldozers
----------------------------------------Edit. These unofficial results were fakes.
to infinity and beyond
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BladeD
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Japanese supercomputer is world's fastest A Japanese supercomputer has been ranked the world's fastest in computing speed, performing 8.162 quadrillion calculations per second. It was the first time in seven years that a Japanese supercomputer was rated the fastest in the world. A quadrillion is 1,000 trillion. The 37th edition of the world's top 500 list for supercomputers was announced at the 2011 International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg on Monday.... Currently, the K computer consists of 672 computer racks. So, what processor is this computer based on? I believe I read that the one in second is based on GPUs. |
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Japanese supercomputer 'K' is world's fastest at 8.2 petaflops
1. A new Japanese supercomputer called "K" is being hailed as the world's fastest - three times more powerful than the previous holder of the title. K is built by the Japanese computer firm Fujitsu, based in Kobe's Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science. It is capable of making 8.2 quadrillion (a quadrillion is 1 followed by 15 zeroes) calculations per second - or, in computer jargon, 8.2 petaflops. The previous fastest machine was the Chinese computer Tianhe-1A, which was clocked at 2.507 petaflops. The rankings for the world's fastest computers are kept by a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, one Jack Dongarra. He releases a six-monthly list detailing the top 500 machines, as determined by a their ability to run a standard mathematical equation. The new list is released today. K's performance is equivalent to one million linked desktop computers, according to Prof Dongarra, or more than its five closest competitors combined. It consists of 672 cabinets stuffed with circuit-boards, and its creators plan to increase that to 800 in the coming months. It uses enough energy to power nearly 10,000 homes and costs $10 million (£6.2 million) annually to run. “It’s a very impressive machine,” Prof Dongarra said. “It’s a lot more powerful than the other computers.” After K and Tianhe-1A, the third fastest computer is Jaguar, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The USA holds a further four of the top 10 slots, although four of the top five are Chinese or Japanese. This is the first Japanese machine to hold the title of fastest since 2004. According to The New York Times, the rankings change so rapidly that June 2008's fastest machine, at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, has dropped to 10th place. Supercomputers are used for various heavy-duty processing jobs, including climate modelling, earthquake simulations and stock-market predictions as well as nuclear research and weapons development Source |
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BladeD
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In the comments, found this, but no other details.....
----------------------------------------The previous record holder used GPUs but this is just 8-core CPUs. |
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An early peak at the forthcoming AMD 8-core Bulldozers Preview: AMD's 8-core FX processor, and test results of the Bulldozer I poured over the stats last week trying to decide to wait or buy Sandy Bridge. At the end of the week, it came out as FAKE. Oh well someday...  |
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mikaok
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An early peak at the forthcoming AMD 8-core Bulldozers Preview: AMD's 8-core FX processor, and test results of the Bulldozer I poured over the stats last week trying to decide to wait or buy Sandy Bridge. At the end of the week, it came out as FAKE. Oh well someday... Yeah and thanks. I forgot to update it.
to infinity and beyond
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