Simon Solotko quizzes Jules Urbach on the capabilities of the render cloud he envisions.

Seagate and AMD demo 6 Gb SATA just in time

Seagate and AMD are the first to demonstrate a complete implementation of 6 Gb SATA .  3 Gb/sec SATA is standard today.  6 Gb/sec interfaces will ship on products in late 2009, braking the drive bottleneck and giving us information twice as fast. With a next-generation high-speed data transfer disk latency is a thing of the past.

The extreme event of CES happened in a geodesic dome out in the Nevada desert with canisters of liquid nitrogen and liquid helium and a international Team of determined Overclockers.

AMD's Simon Solotko was the Master Geek behind the operation code named The Experiment and it was a complete success as the Team achieved a World Record 6.5 gigahertz on a Phenom II microprocessor using AMD Dragon technology.

 The Experiment photo set. Recorded with a Samsung HD camcorder

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Two days after the Launch I got a great demo of the HP TouchSmart tx2 Notebook PC

It runs on the AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core Mobile Processor and the AMD M780G Chipset with ATI Radeon HD 3200. The Digitizer is the N-Trig DuoSense. 

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Charlie Boswell, director, Digital Media & Entertainment at AMD gives a demonstration of Cinema 2.0 with all the amazing possibilities of teraflop graphics processors.

The Cinema 2.0 milestone is comparable to other major evolutions of film: sound, color, cinemascope, 70mm, THX, stereoscopic 3D, IMAX, and the like - Jules Urbach 

AMD Stream Processor First to Break 1 Teraflop Barrier

AMD FireStream 9250 breaks the one teraflop barrier for single precision performance at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany.

AMD FireStream occupies a single PCI slot with power consumption of less than 150 watts, delivering an unprecedented rate of performance per watt efficiency of up to eight gigaflops per watt.

Just last week IBM announced the Roadrunner Project the worlds fastest computer with 1,000 trillion operations per second. Roadrunner is powered by 6,562 dual-core AMD Opteron processors networked with 12,240 Cell chips.

Can you even begin to imagine the speed capabilities of leveraging AMD’s latest FireStream offering with third generation Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors..?

AMD Delivers World’s First TeraFLOPS Graphics Chip 

ATI Radeon HD 4870 introduces GDDR5 performance, pushes 1.2 teraFLOPS
The ATI Radeon HD 4870, available immediately represents an unprecedented 1.2 teraFLOPS of visual compute power. It features a stock GPU core clock speed of 750 MHz, 512 MB of GDDR5 memory rated at 3.6 gigabits/second, and comes in a dual-slot PCI Express 2.0 configuration with a maximum board power of 160 watts.

ATI Radeon HD 4850: one teraFLOPS of visual compute power
The ATI Radeon HD 4850, immediately available received an enthusiastic welcome from global graphics reviewers. The ATI Radeon HD 4850 is the world’s first teraFLOPS graphics chip, with 800 stream processing cores (identical to the ATI Radeon HD 4870), a stock GPU core clock speed of 625 MHz, 512 MB of GDDR3 memory rated at 2 gigabits/second, and comes in a single-slot PCI Express 2.0 configuration with a maximum board power of 110 watts.

It wasn't long ago that global climate models were created with mainframes comprised of hundreds of CPU's and today all you need is a quad-core Opteron or Phenom and two ATI Radeon HD 4870 running in CrossfireX