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IBM ships 5.2GHz chip, its fastest yet

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A chip in IBM's new zEnterprise System clocks in at 5.2GHz. The fastest IBM microprocessor to date is targeted at mainframes. It packs in four cores, plus a respectable helping of DRAM.

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2010 Linux Graphics Survey

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For the past three years we have hosted an annual Linux Graphics Survey in which we ask tens of thousands of users each time their video card preferences, driver information, and other questions about their view of the Linux graphics stack. This year we are hosting the survey once again...

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H.P. to Work With Hynix on New Computer Memory Chips

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A simpler alternative to transistors, the memristor, will allow for more computer memory in even smaller devices.

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Mesa 7.9 Planned For Release In September

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Mesa 7.9 has shaped up to be one hell of a release with many new features and improvements throughout this open-source graphics software stack. For those that have been waiting for this to be officially released, there's good news and that is Mesa 7.9 should be released by the end...

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NVIDIA 256.53 Stable Linux Driver Release

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Over the weekend there was a new Linux binary driver release from NVIDIA that was the 256.52 driver in a pre-release state. It didn't deliver on OpenCL 1.1, Fermi Linux overclocking support, or any other radical features, but it did bring a handful of bug-fixes.

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Advances Offer Path to Shrink Computer Chips

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Researchers say they can overcome a barrier to the continued rapid miniaturization of computer memory.

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NVIDIA 256.52 Linux Driver Brings Fixes

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Just shy of a month ago was when NVIDIA last released a proprietary Linux driver, at which point they also released a second driver that was their OpenGL 4.1 preview driver. This Saturday though NVIDIA has provided a new driver release, which is tagged as the 256.52 pre-release. This new...

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Processor Whispers - About Big Wheel Loaders and Mini Excavators

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AMD says good bye to old odds and ends like 3Dnow! drops the name ATI and presents the upcoming hot chips at the conference of the same name in some more detail...

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Chromium gets GPU acceleration

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Google developers have announced that Chromium, the open source browser on which the company builds the Chrome browser, is getting a GPU graphics overhaul...

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LLNL Talks To Us About Their Linux ZFS Port

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Following this morning's article entitled Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month where the work by a small company from India that ported ZFS to Linux as a native kernel module was discussed, we heard from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. 

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BuGLe - OpenGL Debugging Wrapper

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BuGLe is a tool for OpenGL debugging, implemented as a wrapper library that sits between your program and OpenGL. Although it's still in development, the Web site states that it already can do the following: more>> Dump a textual log of all GL calls made. Take a screenshot or capture...

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The Bidding War For 3PAR Continues; HP Offers $2 Billion In Cash

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Here we go again-again. HP just offered $2 billion, or $30 per share in cash for data storage company 3PAR. This morning, Dell announced that 3PAR had accepted its increased offer to acquire the storage leader for $27 per share in cash, or approximately $1.8 billion. Dell had previously signed an agreement to acquire 3PAR for $18 per share or...

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Review: ZaReason Verix Laptop

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One of the challenges of being a Linux desktop user is the difficulty in finding systems that ship with Linux pre-installed. Major OEMs often offer a handful of Linux offerings, but to get a wider range of hardware and choices of Linux distributions you have to look to smaller vendors that are really interested in promoting Linux — like ZaReason.

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Ethernet Switches Rise on Virtualization, Cloud

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Latest market snapshot from research firm IDC saw robust growth in the second quarter for Ethernet switching and routing gear, both posting double-digit increases.

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Bcache Testing: Throughput

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Get your wetsuit on, we're going data diving. Throughput benchmarks using IOzone on a common SATA disk, an Intel X25-E SSD, and Bcache, using the SSD to cache a single drive.

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