Geeze, iPad is SOO much better than a piece of crap netbook after all.
Only Jobs could have known ;>)

I think the whole point is that this isn't a Netbook. It's something else.

Does it fill a need? I have no idea.

I am laughing in pain right now. Apple has just introduced the "iPad" a tablet that sounds like a unmentioned women's product.

Rafe Needleman of CBS has called it a "ergonomic disaster", people are panning it's 10 hour battery life, it can only currently play games and read books. And Apple stocks actually dropped 5% as it became clear halfway through the presentation that the media wasn't impressed!

Apple has introduced the most stupid technological product I've ever seen.

Obama apparently plans to kill the Ares rocket program, the replacement for the Space Shuttle, as part of an attempt to fix the budget.
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Until now I was on the fence, but this puts me squarely in the don't-like-Obama camp.

IMO the ipad is just a larger ipod touch. Where you can actually see the screen when watching a movie.

Message boards : Number crunching : Random Musings About the Value of CPUs vs CUDA (Message 849087)
Posted 337 days ago by Gecko_R7
Re: Larrabee

For us mere mortals, hard to place 100% faith in the current info re: Larrabee. Only Who? knows for sure...BUT....if it debuts this year in 45nm process w/ 32 and 24 core versions, then I'm slightly underwhealmed. There appears to be much speculation that Larrabee will be a @ 2 Tflop (single precision) card @ launch. Logical to assume this will be the 32 core variety.

The HD4870X2 is already @ 2.4 Tflops, the GTX295 to be released in a few days will be @ 2 Tfops. I understand that Flops alone is not the end-all basis for performance expectations, but for the purpose of "general" comparison, this is the power available in the market today......

IMO, it seems Larrabee is behind & will playing catch-up when it debuts......

Intel said Friday that its Larrabee graphics processor will initially appear as a software development platform only.
This is a blow to the world's largest chipmaker, which was looking to launch its first discrete (standalone) graphics chip in more than a decade.

"Larrabee silicon and software development are behind where we hoped to be at this point in the project," Intel spokesman Nick Knupffer said Friday. "As a result, our first Larrabee product will not be launched as a standalone discrete graphics product," he said.
"Rather, it will be used as a software development platform for internal and external use," he added. Intel is not discussing what other versions may appear after the initial software development platform product, or "kit," is launched next year.

Graphics chip analyst Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Research, said Intel is not hitting performance targets and this became apparent at the SC09 supercomputing conference last month.
"Justin Rattner (Intel Senior Fellow) demonstrated Larrabee hitting one teraflop, which is great but you could walk across the street and buy an ATI graphics board for a few hundred dollars that would do five teraflops."

A teraflop is 1 trillion floating point operations per second, a key indicator of graphics chip performance.

I tried creating an account on Lunatics, but apparently with Simon gone, new accounts are not being activated.


Not all options seem to be available in your poll. What I would vote is: IX. Unsure - I have an ATi GPU but I don't know if I'll allow any project to use it for crunching.

....the PPC core does have a VMX unit. Nonetheless, I expect this VMX to be very simple, and roughly comparable to the Altivec unit o the first G4. Everything on this processor is stripped down to the bare minimum, so don't expect a ton of VMX performance out of it, and definitely not anything comparable to the G5. Furthermore, any Altivec code written for the new G4 or G5 would have to be completely reoptimized due to inorder nature of the PPC core's issue.

But also note, the java/Android porting of Boinc may well get used far beyond just mobile phones.

Happy crunchin',
Martin