Intel: Advancing Multi-Core Technology into the Tera-scale Era

From Intel:

ASCI Red was the first computer to benchmark at a teraflops (1996). That system used nearly 10,000 Pentium® Pro processors running at 200MHz and consumed 500kW of power plus an additional 500kW just to cool the room that housed it. Although not a general purpose computing device, this Teraflops Research Chip delivers 1.0 teraflops of performance and 1.6 terabits aggregate core to core communication bandwidth, while dissipating only 62W.

Wow! - from 1 teraflop requiring a 1,000,000 watts to 1 teraflop requiring 62 watts. Pretty soon, there will be a computer for a $1,000 with AI software that will probably be smarter than most everyone...

It was only 5-6 months ago that quad core were being announced.

Home Entertainment

Some in the UK say that "no one" reads the Daily Mail. But from the perspective of how technology impacts, say home entertainment, well--- many of us, wouldn't believe that from a human factors perspective this has any chance of catching on.



the link is here

Ex-Official at Monster.com Admits to Backdating Options

I try to write about Technology here in this blog, but I noticed this today and had to speak out. I guess everyone needs to speak out. This behaviour is unacceptable. I'm glad Mr. Myron F. Olesnyckyj is facing some stiff penalties and perhaps some jail time. It's about time these people were shown the door AND punished.

It's hard enough to do good things in a company, even harder in the bigger ones. When the executives are cooking the books, it makes the engineer and the rest of people on the front lines want to just give up.

Good companies, they need to set the example. Instead, we have so many examples of bad behavior. I mean, "What were you thinking? That you could get away with it and it wouldn't hurt anyone?"

Thought provoking piece

Here is a great video at YouTube by Michael Wesch (Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Kansas State university). Arjun Roychowdhury and Sunil Veluvali of CorporateRat and ElusiveCheese fame is where I noticed it first. Evidently also on Alec Saunders weblog.

This is a great piece from Professor Wesch and his group at KSU.

keep your speakers on




Currently Wesch is launching the Digital Ethnography working group at Kansas State University to examine the impacts of digital technology on human interaction.