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Elemental Technologies Nets $7.1M

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:54:11 -0700

Elemental Technologies, a startup focused on faster transcoding, has raised $7.1 million from General Catalyst Partners and Voyager Capital. The company’s software uses the graphics processor rather than the CPU inside a computer to handle the work of ripping a DVD or video file to another format. It’s one of several startups using Nvidia’s GPUs for tasks once allocated to the CPU, and bolstering the idea that GPUs might be better suited than the CPU to some tasks, such as scientific computing or video transcoding. To read more check out our coverage on NewTeeVee.

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FreeBSD on Dell C400, and other stuff: Fixing hibernation (suspend to disk) in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron for a Dell d800 using nvidia proprietary drivers.

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Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:53:34 -0700

Lots of good tutorials relating to Ubuntu and Kubuntu Linux.

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AMD Already Missed the MID Boat

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:20:30 -0700

OK, so AMD refuses to comment on rumors that it plans to introduce a low-power chip aimed at the mobile Internet device market, where it would compete with Intel’s Atom chipset and offerings from several other rivals. And it refuses to claim a block diagram floated by eeepcnews.de as its plans for such a chip.

I was kind of hoping AMD might stay out of this MID market opportunity and focus on its core CPU business and getting its promising graphics processor and CPU platform off the ground instead of chasing Intel, Nvidia, Via, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments and their hopes for a pocket PC market. Plus, AMD’s been here and done that — back in 2002, when it purchased Alchemy Semiconductor and its line of MIPS-based, low-power personal device chips. That deal was a response to Intel’s Xscale assault, and AMD turned around and sold the Alchemy line in 2005.

AMD did, however, keep the low-power x86 chips for the embedded and personal device market that it purchased from National Semiconductor in 2003. The x86 architecture was more familiar to AMD’s existing chips, and the Geode line is still used in low-power devices, but isn’t very fast and wouldn’t be competitive for the MID opportunity.

It’s surprising that AMD doesn’t have anything better on offer already. Especially given AMD CEO Hector Ruiz’s 50×15 project, which aims to get computers and broadband to half of the population by 2015. An AMD-designed, low-power, high-performance chip would have been perfect for the project and then later for the MID market. However, the One Laptop Per Child laptops AMD is using for the project use a Geode processor. If this diagram represents AMD’s answer to Intel and the gang, why the heck has it waited so long? They had a perfect market for an MID chip and they let it pass them by. If anything, AMD could have sacrificed short-term profits for large volumes if it had to. Its main rival isn’t shy about doing that.

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Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:11:25 -0700

Supercomputing: Now Less Super, More Computing

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:20:31 -0700

The last time the world got so excited about supercomputers was in 1996 when a machine built by Intel and Sandia National Labs called ASCI Red breached the 1-teraflop level. But Teraflops are so 20th century, for now we’re getting jazzed up about IBM’s $100 million Roadrunner computer, which recently broke the petaflop barrier to become the fastest supercomputer…ever.

Something about big, round numbers excites the computing world and a petaflop, which is a measure of how fast a computer can complete an operation, is pretty big and round. The technology industry’s excitement around Roadrunner and ASCI Red is understandable — they both signaled a big shift in supercomputing — from its core technologies to the tasks was supposed to do.

ASCI Red, with its multi-core x86 processors, signaled the future of the supercomputing industry as the computers moved away from a glamorous assortment of specialty-built processors crammed into custom cabinets running Unix. Almost a decade earlier it was a Cray computer in 1988 that beat the 1-gigaflop record.

As a general rule, supercomputers increase in performance 1,000 times every decade, although factors on the software side may limit growth in years to come.

Short History of Modern SuperComputer

Cray’s first supercomputer, which marked the beginning of the industry as we know it, was installed in 1976 and ran at 160 megaflops. It cost $8.8 million. Like IBM’s Roadrunner, it was installed at Los Alamos National Lab. It was the first to run on integrated circuits and was shaped like a “C” to keep the twisted pair connecting the processors from being too long and causing too much latency.

In 1982, Cray introduced the first multiprocessor architecture for supercomputers. The processing power in that first Cray is less than the several gigaflops most cheap PCs can run today.

That’s a common theme in supercomputing, as yesterday’s supercomputers become today’s cloud compute grids and the clusters of servers running a hedge fund’s algorithmic trading strategies.

The line between supercomputing, which was geared at solving scientific problems, and high-performance computing, which required bulk processing power and less refinement, has blurred. Many supercomputers have been lumped in with high performance computing, and because both can use commodity hardware and open-source software, their sky-high pricing has fallen.

Earlier this year, that led research firm IDC to shift its market data a bit and compress supercomputing and the high-performance computing systems costing more than $500,000 into the same category. That category, by the way, grew 24 percent last year to $3.2 billion. But since the rise of clustered computing back in 2002, most supercomputers have become less super and more like regular computers.

Unix lost out as an operating system around 2004 when more than half of the computers in the Top 500 list ran Linux. Instead of the closely linked twisted pair of Cray’s system, today’s supercomputers use Infiniband. Some of them can still costs millions to build, but when all is said and done, most are built on x86 processors running Linux.

Cell Side Computing & Beyond x86

The rise of the x86 architecture is one of the reasons Cray formed a partnership with Intel. There was a desire for a second source of chips after AMD’s production delays caused Cray a financial hiccup, but also a realization by Intel that supercomputing was now a growing market dominated by its processors.

In Nov. 2007, 71 percent of the Top 500 supercomputers contained Intel chips. Ten years ago that number was 2.6 percent, and five years ago it was 11 percent. The x86 trend and democratization of supercomputing is also a boon to makers of HPC systems, such as Rackable and Appro.

But the Crays of the world may not stand on ceremony for Intel or AMD very long. IBM’s newly launched Roadrunner, the fastest supercomputer working today (supercomputers have shorter heydays than a viral video star), runs on a combination of AMD’s x86 and IBM’s Cell processors connected using Infiniband.

One of the reasons Roadrunner is so unique is that IBM had to develop special software that would work with both types of processors. The Cell architecture was designed for the PlayStation and is now morphing into a performance chip for other applications, a process that IBM is likely to follow in the future.

Supercomputers comprised of specialized processors are an emerging trend in the high-performance computing world, with players such as Nvidia bragging about its ability to crunch scientific data faster than general purpose CPUs.

So far, a Nvidia-powered supercomputer hasn’t broken the Top 500, but Steve Conway, IDC research vice president for HPC, says such different architectures might become more important in the next few years. If it does, it will be worth watching, because trends in supercomputing generally trickle downstream to the rest of the computer-using population eventually.

photos courtesy of IBM and Cray

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Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:11:24 -0700

AMD Faces Nvidia With Dual Chip Plan

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:26:41 -0700

Nvidia and AMD today each launched two graphics chips for the PC market — but the two companies are pursuing divergent strategies. Both share a recent focus on high-end graphics, which underlines how important visual computing has become; but the different approaches taken by each firm may cost Nvidia market share if its monolithic high-end chips can’t deliver the graphic punch to compete with a multi-GPU strategy embraced by AMD and Intel.

Nvidia launched its GTX 280 and GTX 260 chips, which are larger multi-core processors on a single chip. AMD on the other hand, has taken a bottoms-up approach with smaller, multi-core chips that can be harnessed to a second graphics processing chip on a board to deliver higher-level performance. Lower-end PCs can rely on one AMD processor and those needing more power can turn to two AMD chips or Nvidia’s single, high-power chip.

The real question is how the graphics will look on the screen. And, as in most chip releases, the proof will be a while in coming. Nvidia already has HP signed up to use its new chip in a new Voodoo desktop especially for gaming. That makes sense. Nividia’s chip will rock the high-end application, while AMD’s is designed to provide compelling imagery for cheaper, power-efficient PCs and laptops at a large scale. The real battle will be whether AMD’s dual-chip strategy takes business away from Nvidia for specialty graphics computers and high-performance technical computing. If that occurs, Nvidia will have to be on guard: Intel’s planning to follow the same dual-chip path with its Larrabee GPUs.

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Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:10:56 -0700