Nov 29, 2004
Cell Processor
A glimpse at IBM's new 'Cell Processor' - this will power the new Playstation 3.
The BBC also have a brief article on it.
"capable of handling 16 trillion floating point operations, or calculations, every second"
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Interesting Links
Wired is running a Whatever happened to SGI ? story. Nice comparison with the Mac community.
Introduction to 64-bit Windows on Opteron/Itanium hardware.
An insight into the IBM Power Architecture. Also some very brief details on Power7 - it looks like IBM really will smoke the opposition in the Unix (primarily Sun and HP) marketplace.
Fan of classic cellphones - Retrofone has something to meet all your needs.
Quick backup solution - Rsync Snapshots.
The ongoing hunt for the perfect Windows - Sticky. Having come back to Outlook I can safely say that its 'Notes' feature is terrible compared to the flexibility offered by Mac OS Stickies.
Useful - WordWeb is a free 'lite' Dictionary/Thesaurus for Windows.
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