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| From IBM Supercomputers to the Playstation 3 |
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| The I.S Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration tagged IBM to build the world's first supercomputer to use the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell B.E.) processor. The machine will be capable of up to 1,000 trillion calculations per second. The Cell B.E. also powers Sony's new Playstation 3. The IBM Machine will be built entirely from commercially available hardware and use the Linux operating system. It will occupy 12,000 suqare feet of floor space- approximately the size of three basketball courts. Called Roadrunner, the system will segment complex mathematical equations, routing each segment to the part of the system that can most efficiently handle it. |
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Lingo Voyager 4
If you’re heading out on vacation and you don’t speak the local language, consider picking up a Voyager 4. About the size of a large PDA, it’s a 14-language talking translator that handles English, German, Portuguese, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew.
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