Archive for the ‘IT’ Category

2018. What Laptop Will You Use in Ten Years?

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

We have lived enough IT history to know that reality has exceeded Moore's Law prediction of computers doubling capacity every 18 months. In fact, the period is now close to 12 months. Following this exponential growth these are the specs for a $1500 Laptop in 2018, and some accessories: Microprocessor number of Cores: ...

IBM Supercomputer Sets Record, or rather not?

Monday, June 9th, 2008

With a total of 116,640 processor cores, including AMD Opteron processors as well as 12,960 IBM Cell processors similar to those created for the PlayStation 3, IBM has broken the one petaflop mark with the new Supercomputer commissioned by the American military administration. The $133 million machine*, called Roadrunner, will be used to ...