Supercomputer has up to 80 cores and 1 TB of RAM

What if your computer at home had, say ten cases Qud-Core Xeon 5500 (the most advanced model of quad-core libh server)? Ah, your problem is with RAM? So how about 1 TB to solve this?

These impressive numbers is what the SGI offers with its Octane III, the personal supercomputer. There are several possible configurations, with the cheapest of them costs U.S.$ 8.

Among the settings available, there are the following:
- It has Quad-Core Xeon 5500 with two sockets;
- A Quad-Core Xeon 5500 sockets with two workstation with NVIDIA advanced or support other video card;
- 19 (!) Quad-Core Xeon 3400 with a sopcket;
- 19 Dual Core Atom processor with a socket.

SGI says that the Octane III allows "a new era of innovation in science esteratégica, research, development and visualization. The company also says it is a way "cheap" to have a computer capable of advanced scientific research. Probably is. Rather he wanted to see a toy that running a Modern Warfare 2.

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Inventor turns dead mouse on computer mouse

Inventor turns dead mouse on computer mouse

A controversial project published on the site of inventions and improvisations "Instructables" teaches the User to create a computer mouse from a mouse killed. Called "Mouse mouse!", The invention is explained step-by-step through pictures and text instructions.

A common mouse is disassembled and its parts has changed, which are then incorporated into the mouse "stuffed". Users' noahw "and" canidae ", signing the bill, warning of the photos" heavy ", which may bother some readers.

Photo published on the site "Instructables' shows the final turned into a stuffed mouse computer mouse. The project is signed by the users 'noahw' and 'canidae'.

Project involves taxidermy techniques to prepare the animal changes to a standard mouse enable the adaptation of the circuits.

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Nintendo insists: Wii UK price is lower - but you might not benefit

Nintendo UK says that it has cut prices for the Wii, just as has been done in the US - but that it's up to retailers whether you'll actually see that difference when you come to hand your cash over.

Following the news of big price cuts in Japan and the US - the price of the machine would fall by ¥5,000 (£33) in Japan and drop from $249 (£152) to $199 in America - Nintendo UK has insisted that over here the price has also fallen, though it will not say by how much.

A Nintendo spokesperson told the Guardian:

Unfortunately I cannot disclose the Wii trade price to you - it is a confidential figure shared only between Nintendo and retailers - just in the same way Apple and Sony will not disclose their trade prices if were to ring them up today and ask.

But, the spokesperson insists,

We ARE lowering the cost price of Wii to retailers in the UK. If retailers do not decide to pass that saving onto consumers - we cannot be blamed for that - but we have lowered the price.

Under EU Anti-Competition law, of course, Nintendo cannot set the retail price. It can offer the SRP - suggested retail price - but under laws passed some years ago, it cannot set the final price. This allows retailers to compete on price with each other, and to come up with different ways to market things. (In general, it's a good thing.)

As a rule of thumb, the trade price for most goods is about 40% of the retail price. (If you don't know that, you haven't been watching The Apprentice closely enough.) If the Wii retail price been cut by $50 and ¥5,000 in Japan, should we expect - given the way that goods so often seem to have a unitary dollar-pound conversion rate - that the Wii's £199 price will fall by £50? Or is the $50 price fall in the US indicative of a wholesale price fall of $20?

It's interesting that Nintendo has managed to drop the price to retailers, and Japanese companies have been suffering from the effects of the yen's rise, which has effectively cut their profits from overseas sales - hence the price rise (from £179 to £199) earlier this year.

Let us know if you see the Wii falling in price. Perhaps a pricetracker would work...

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Got 9 Friends? You can get Windows 7 DVD for Free

First, answer some simple questions:

1. Do you have a computer at home that can run Windows 7. You may use the free Upgrade Advisor utility to determine if your current Windows XP, Vista or Linux machine* meets the system requirements for Windows 7.

2. Do you have 9 or more friends in town?

3. Do you live in any of the following countries – India, US, UK, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Italy, Spain or Hong Kong?

If you just said yes to all the above questions, here’s an opportunity for you to grab a free Windows 7 Ultimate DVD shipped to you without charge along with some other Windows 7 goodies straight from Microsoft.

Microsoft will do a public launch of Windows 7 on October 22 and to generate buzz around the event, they are inviting Windows enthusiasts from around the world to throw up small parties at their own homes and show off the new Windows 7 to friends and family members.

You can apply to become a party host at houseparty.com and if selected, you’ll receive a special Signature Edition of Windows 7 Ultimate edition in your mailbox.

You may sign-up to become a host using your existing Facebook account or your Windows Live ID. Microsoft will send you an email sometime in the second week of September to let you know if you are through.

*Though Microsoft has not mentioned Mac users anywhere, I guess you can also apply if your Macbook is running Windows via Parallels, VMWare Fusion, Boot Camp or some other virtualization software.

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2010 Peugeot RCZ Limited Edition

The RCZ compact coupe is being introduced by Peugeot in a Limited Edition of only 200 units. These vehicles are especially reserved for European buyers who will order their cars at the Frankfurt Motor Show or on the Peugeot website.

If you’re wondering why it has to be 200, the number is significant as next year marks the 200th anniversary of the existence of Peugeot as an industrial brand name. Powering the RCZ is a 1.6-litre THP petrol engine making 115kW (156hp), which is the same engine that MINI’s Roadster Concept has but gets 155kW (211hp) from it. More details and photos after the jump!
There’s speculation though that the more powerful RCZ is currently being developed. The car runs off a 6-speed manual gearbox and sends power to the 19-inch wheels. These are matte black and are housed inside smoked chrome wheels arches.The Limited Edition RCZ features new pearlescent white paintwork and a double bubble roof covered in carbon fiber.

The interior includes Nappan black leather upholstery with heating function, front and rear parking assistance and more. These and other features like directional bi-xenon headlights, are part of three packages included with the €35,500 price.

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Curious things appear in Google Earth images

At a first glance, these landscapes of Google Earth to play some may seem alien humorous. But in reality, are only the result of the trained eyes of the fans of this Internet service free of satellite images over the Internet.

The images shown are real, but look like faces or world-famous icons such as aerial photo of a labyrinth in the U.S. state of Arizona that is reminiscent of TV presenter Oprah Winfrey. Or, the image of a shadow on sand dunes in Peru that resembles the face of Jesus Christ.

Actual photos and their supposed similarities, presented Wednesday at the site of the Daily Mail, also come with a field of Massachusetts seems to have been carved in the shape of the symbol of Halloween, the pumpkin for Halloween or a photo of Rockies that resembles the image of a Canadian Indian wearing headphones.

The famous gardens of Versailles in France, seen from above, may suggest the image of the little robot Johnny Five. Or, a field in Poland that resembles the face of former President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.

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No Hands Video

Now, a St. Louis-area teenage boy and a computer game have gone hands-off, thanks to a unique experiment conducted by a team of neurosurgeons, neurologists, and engineers at Washington University in St. Louis.

The boy, a 14-year-old who suffers from epilepsy, is the first teenager to play a two-dimensional video game, Space Invaders, using only the signals from his brain to make movements.

Getting subjects to move objects using only their brains has implications toward someday building biomedical devices that can control artificial limbs, for instance, enabling the disabled to move a prosthetic arm or leg by thinking about it.

A number of gamers think fondly of Atari's Space Invaders, one of the most popular breakthrough video games of the late '70s. The player controls the motions of a movable laser cannon that moves back and forth across the bottom of the video screen. Row upon row of video aliens march back and forth across the screen, slowly coming down from the top to the bottom of the screen. The objective is to prevent any one of the aliens from landing on the bottom of the screen, which ends the game. The player has an unlimited ammunition supply.

The aliens can shoot back at the player, who has to evade, moving left and right. There are lots of levels of play, reflecting the speed at which the aliens descend. The Washington University subject mastered the first two levels of play, using just his imagination.........

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