Titan (supercomputer)
Titan is a supercomputer developed by Cray Inc. at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for use in a variety of science projects. Titan is an upgrade of Jaguar, a previous supercomputer at Oak Ridge, to use GPUs in addition to CPUs.Titan was announced in October 2011 and became operational in October 2012.
Active Became operational October 29, 2012
Sponsors US DOE and NOAA (<10%)
Operators Cray Inc.
Location Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Architecture 18,688 AMD Opteron 6274 16-core CPUs
18,688 Nvidia Tesla K20 GPUs
Cray Linux Environment
Power 9 MW
Space 404 sqm (4352 sq ft)
Memory 710 TB (598 TB CPU and 112 TB GPU)[1]
Storage 10 PB, 240 GB/s IO[2]
Speed 20 petaFLOPS
Cost US$97 million
Legacy First GPU based supercomputer to perform over 10 petaFLOPS
http://www.olcf.ornl.gov/titan/
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SINOFSKY'S FINAL MEMO: I Wasn't Fired. I Quit. And I'm Ready To Compete With Microsoft
With the general availability of Windows 8/RT and Surface, I have decided it is time for me to take a step back from my responsibilities at Microsoft. I've always advocated using the break between product cycles as an opportunity to reflect and to look ahead, and that applies to me too.
My passion for building products is as strong as ever and I look forward focusing my energy and creativity along similar lines.
Some might notice a bit of chatter speculating about this decision or timing. I can assure you that none could be true as this was a personal and private choice that in no way reflects any speculation or theories one might read--about me, opportunity, the company or its leadership.
http://www.businessinsider.com/sinofskys-final-memo-i-wasnt-fired-i-quit-and-im-ready-to-compete-with-microsoft-2012-11
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Halo 4 Day-One Sales Hit $220 Million, Outselling Box Office Titans
In a year when Hollywood is rolling out its biggest blockbusters, one video game has eclipsed them all. “Halo 4” is on track to reach $300 million in global sales in the first week, making it the biggest “Halo” launch in history and the biggest entertainment launch of the year to date. In the first 24 hours of its release, “Halo 4” garnered more than $220 million worldwide, eclipsing the record for the biggest day-one opening in U.S. box office history, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” and the biggest movie of 2012, “The Avengers” – based on U.S. sales alone.
Halo 3 reportedly cost $60 Million to develop and advertise, which makes it one of the most expensive games ever produced. Apparently, Halo 4's budget is quite a bit larger than that.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/10/25/halo-4-is-microsoft-39-s-most-expensive-game.aspx
http://allthingsd.com/20121112/halo-4-day-one-sales-hit-220-million-outselling-box-office-titans/
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Nexus 4 sells out in U.K. on Google Play as site suffers
Google's latest smartphone, the Nexus 4, is sold out in the U.K., less than an hour after it went on sale.
The 4.7-inch Android device went on sale in the U.K. on Tuesday, alongside Google's two latest tablets, the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 -- and it looks like the devices are proving popular. According to reports on Twitter, some customers found that stocks of lowest priced Nexus 4, the 8GB version, had been snapped up within a mere 15 minutes of going on sale.
As consumers headed to the Google Play store to order their devices this morning, the online shop appears to be struggling to cope with demand. Some would-be buyers have taken to Twitter to complain that Google Play is slow, unresponsive, throwing up errors or that, by the time they've navigated the problems with the site, the entire stock of the product they went there to buy is sold out.
At the time of writing, Google Play appears to be showing the 8GB and 16GB versions of the Nexus 4 as out of stock
