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Earlier today in a San Francisco press briefing Intel Chief Technology Officer, Justin Rattner took the wraps off a proof of concept and experimental product that Intel dubbed a “Single-Chip Cloud Computer”. The objective this chip was designed to address is the huge opportunity that exists to reduce power consumption and space in the data center, a very real place, rather than mythical, where “the cloud” really exists and increasing user demand for online services continues to chew up bandwidth, processing resources and storage like there is no tomorrow. The Intel Single-chip Cloud Computer or “SCC” for short, is what Intel likes to call a “many core” CPU but actually consists of a 48-core implementation using 45nm process technology. The cores on the chip are networked together in a packet-based router mesh network, where the nodes (or individual cores) behave quite similarly to a network cloud but on a monolithic silicon chip level. There are, in fact, 24 “routers” to connect and manage all 48 cores and the chip also contains an additional 4 DDR3 memory controllers to feed the network data, with 64GB total addressable memory space per SCC chip.
Intel Unveils 48-Core Single-Chip Cloud Computer
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Jesse Morrell - a 25-year-old evangelist preacher from Cheshire, Conn., who said he did three stints at the juvenile detention center on Whalley Avenue for selling drugs - says he knows where most Yale students are headed: hell.
After releasing their long-awaited debut album Bourgeois Beat earlier this year, which was featured here in August 2009, the Wilmington, Delaware duo of Rob Montejo and Monika Bullette probably could have perched on a successful new release and just watched as well-deserved attention rolled in. Instead, The Sky Drops have remained both active and incredibly festive in deciding to record a holiday song, titled Christmas Feels Like Halloween, that we can now share.
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CHART: Depressed Americans Quit The Labor Force -
One caveat to today’s jobs report — which overall was excellent — is the fact that Americans continue to leave the work force, and that these people aren’t included in headline rate.
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A Chinese woman has been arrested on suspicion of illegally entering Japan by falsifying her fingerprints to deceive a biometric recognition system in violation of the immigration law, police said Monday. Lin Rong, 27, is believed to have swapped the skin of the fingers on her right and left hands, according to the police. She has told investigators she spent some 1.3 million yen to undergo the surgery in China, they said. She is suspected of passing through immigration control with a different person’s passport in December last year, police said. She was indicted last month for submitting a false registration of marriage with a Japanese man, prompting the police to further investigate and find that she had been deported for overstaying in 2007.
Chinese woman arrested for deceiving bio recognition system