Cody Taylor

There’s quite a lot of variance in DDR3 modules on the marketnow, which can certainly be overwhelming for potential new buyers.Today, we’re going to look at some of these new kits and see if we canbreak down what memory-related aspects you should look for when buyingfor an X58 platform for Intel’s new Core i7.

AMD’s Phenom II quad-core parts launched to strong reviews last month, but will the architecture scale to provide continued competition for Intel’s Nehalem? We at Ars decided to take one Phenom II, add freon, and overclock. Details inside.

A technology licensing suit between Intel and NVIDIA over controller chipsets and the next generation of Intel’s Core i7 CPUs may complicate Apple’s immediate plans for the next iMac and Mac Pro, and disrupt the company’s long term strategy for standardized GPU acceleration using OpenCL.

tytso writes “I’ve recently started exploring ways of configuring Solid State Disks (SSDs) so they work most efficiently in Linux. In particular, Intel’s new 80GB X25-M, which has fallen down to a street price of around 0 and thus within my toy budget. It turns out that the Linux Storage Stack isn’t set up well to align partitions and filesystems for use with SSD’s, RAID systems, and 4k sector disks. There are also some interesting configuration and tuning that we need to do to avoid potential fragmentation problems with the current generation of Intel SSDs. I’ve figured out ways of addressing some of these issues, but it’s clear that more work is needed to make this easy for mere mortals to efficiently use next generation storage devices with Linux.”

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With a market that is anxiously sizing up the netbook platform – – driven in large part by Intel’s low-cost Atom processors – – the gOS offers a simple proposition: A simple-to-install, free operating system integrated with Mozilla and Google technology for fun and productivity.

lwbrown writes with this excerpt from Government Computer News about a concept being explored at Oak Ridge National Laboratory: “UNTAME is the product of a long-term program by the division’s Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Group to develop futuristic security functionality for increasingly large, complex environments. The cybots differ from traditional software agents in that they form a collective and are aware of the condition and activities of other cybots in the collective. ‘You give it a mission and tools to work with, such as mobility and intrusion sensors, and it uses those tools and cooperates with other cybots to accomplish the mission,” said Lawrence MacIntyre, one of the project’s developers.'”

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Brietech writes “Ever wanted to own your own supercomputer? This guy recreated a 31-processor SIMD supercomputer from the early 1980’s called the ‘Non-Von 1’ in an FPGA. It uses a ‘Non-Von Neumann’ architecture, and was intended for extremely fast database searches and artificial intelligence applications. Full-scale models were intended to have more than a million processors. It’s a cool project for those interested in ‘alternative’ computer architectures, and yes, full source code (Verilog) is available, along with a python library to program it with.” Hope the WIPO patent has expired.

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MojoKid writes “NVIDIA and Intel have always had an interesting relationship, consisting of a dash of mutual respect and a whole lot of under-the-collar disdain. And with situations such as these, it’s easy to understand why. NVIDIA today has come forward with a response to a recent Intel court filing in which Intel alleges that the “four-year-old chipset license agreement the companies signed does not extend to Intel’s future generation CPUs with ‘integrated’ memory controllers, such as Nehalem. NVIDIA CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, had this to say about the whole ordeal: “We are confident that our license, as negotiated, applies. At the heart of this issue is that the CPU has run its course and the soul of the PC is shifting quickly to the GPU. This is clearly an attempt to stifle innovation to protect a decaying CPU business.””

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