Virginia Tech‘s Center for High-End Computing System (CHECS) is famous for building a 1100-node, G5-based supercomputing cluster in 2003 called System X. At the time it was built, it ranked as the third fastest supercomputer in the world with a sustained performance of just over 12 teraflops. The CHECS is building a new cluster, this [...]
Apple has been released a few application updates for iLife ’08. Software Update says that over performance and general compatibility issues were addressed in most products, the biggest change is MobileMe support for all iLife ’08 applications.
GearDiary is reporting that a lineup of about 10 people started queuing up Friday for the iPhone 3G launch at the 5th Avenue Apple Store in New York. You may recall last year’s 5th Avenue store queuing started about a week early as well. The iPhone 3G goes on sale at 8 a.m. on July [...]
It looks like Apple has a nice little surprise for anybody in the market for the SSD equipped MacBook Air. The price on the Apple Store for the 64GB SSD upgrade on the 1.6GHz Air has dropped to $599 from $999. Similarly the price of the 1.8GHz Air (equipped with the SSD standard) has dropped [...]
The Mac OS X 10.5.4 update might have made you restart your Mac, but it also added “RAW image support for several cameras.” While Apple didn’t tell us what these cameras were in Software Update, they did later update the RAW support page for Mac OS X Leopard.
In an interesting test by the folks over at Tom’s Hardware, solid-state drives (SSDs) suck more power than their platter-based counterparts. Why should you care? Because the MacBook Air features an SSD in its higher-end configurations. Tom’s looked at four different SSD models, and compared them with a 7,200 RPM disk of the same size. [...]
DisplaySearch, a market research firm, is reporting that Apple’s sales of notebook computers are up 61% from 1st Quarter, 2007 to 1st Quarter, 2008. In that fiscal quarter, Apple shipped over 1.4 million notebooks, compared to almost 900,000 the year before. That puts Apple just behind Asus in terms of growth year-to-year, as the Taiwanese [...]
After Logitech, another manufacturer puts on the markets to webcam for Mac platform. Manufacturer of accessories, Macally introduced a new product IceCam2. It already has high performance and compact USB2.0 Webcam with Microphone built in for video conferencing. 2-Axle swivel joints, fully adjustable pointing angles(360 degree horizontal rotation, 135 degree tilt back and forth), spring [...]
F-Secure is reporting that there are two new Mac OS X trojans. The first is just a proof-of-concept from the MacShadows people that takes advantage of the unpatched ARDAgent vulnerability to get root access when run by the user. The second relies on social engineering: it’s a poker game that requests the user’s password, claiming [...]
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