The Japanese Ministry of education, culture, sport and Science (MEXT) has granted a research contract to NEC, which includes the “development of an IT infrastructure of the future”. This involves the development of a super computer of that you want to perform a Petaflops, so a quadrillion operations per second. NECs order is the first of three parts of the MEXT project and is to develop new technologies for future high-performance...

Our dear colleague of Hardwareluxx had a special event on 1 December to the celebrate: the 2nd birthday of its online magazine. On the occasion of this anniversary they auction a whole mountain to hardware – an action of a different kind in favour of the Association for the promotion and krebskranker Kinder e. v. We wish you congratulations and hope for active participation in the auction!

Granted, there are dual-GPU rumors for NVIDIA graphics cards for a year. Again and again, it has been speculated that “Fermi” is officially even compete with the power of two hearts on a map. But it was nothing until today. But this could change in the light of the forthcoming launch of AMD’s “Antilles”. NVIDIA wants to surprise how at the start of the GeForce GTX 580 before the new generation of AMD with an own...