Tech Review: Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Parallella: The $99 Linux supercomputer

http://www.zdnet.com/parallella-the-99-linux-supercomputer-7000014036/?s_cid=rSINGLE&ttag=rSINGLE

• sending out this summer
• Linux number one supercomputer OS
• credit-card sized parallel-processing board
• 90 GLOPS
• like 45GHz CPU
• Ubuntu 12.04

Parallella – Supercomputing for the masses

http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/interviews/parallella-supercomputing-for-the-masses

• Epiphany 16 and 64 cores
• Parallella
• ARM Cortex-A9
• Epiphany based co-processor
• Releasing all specs under opensource
• C and C++

Fast, Faster, Fastest: Linux rules supercomputing

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/fast-faster-fastest-linux-rules-supercomputing/11263

• Beowulf was first a NASA
• 90% of the top 500
• supercomputers are running linux

http://www.adapteva.com/

• Nice video 
• host machine through USB port

http://www.adapteva.com/introduction/

• goal of 100TFLOPS by 2017

Xen becomes a Linux Foundation project

http://www.zdnet.com/xen-becomes-a-linux-foundation-project-7000014025/?s_cid=rSINGLE&ttag=rSINGLE

Amid great expectations, the Samsung Galaxy S4 has arrived

http://www.zdnet.com/amid-great-expectations-the-samsung-galaxy-s4-has-arrived-7000012629/

• both cameras at once
• 25 pics per second
• common phrase translator that works off line
• 100Mbps download and 50Mbps updloads

Samsung Galaxy S4 up for preorder in U.S. today

• $639

Toshiba Excite 10.1" 16GB Tablet w/ Quad-Core Processor, Android 4.0 OS, 1GB RAM ($200)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200913635875

• Tegra 3 Quad core
• Refurb
• very nice for price
• 1.3 lbs
• 14 day return policy
• 1 Sale A Day
• 98% positive rating