Two of AMD chipset for PCs have received certification for the standard USB 3.0, said the forum in the implementation of USB (USB-IF). This is an important step to promote high-speed standard, because so far only solutions for external companies provide support for USB 3.0 on the platforms of Intel and AMD. The certified chipsets are AMD A75 FCH (also known as Hudson-D3) and AMD A70M FCH (Hudson-M3). They are designed respectively for desktop and mobile PCs with fast processors AMD Llano, which combines a silicon crystal CPU and GPU. Each of the two chipset supports up to four port USB 3.0 SuperSpeed ​​with a maximum theoretical speed for data transmission 4.8 gigabits per second, which is 10 times more than USB 2.0. Recently, Intel introduced its own high-speed interface Thunderbolt, which has raised concerns among industry that Intel will turn our back to standard USB 3.0. Intel, however, argues that two interfaces will coexist, and promised to build in USB 3.0 support in its chipsets.

The company Cray, legendary producer of supercomputers, is engaged in the manufacture of new machine that will beat all current performance record holders.
The Titan supercomputer was commissioned by the Department of Energy USA. The funded with $ 100 million project should cause the machine that is 8 times more productive than the present leader – Chinese Tianhe-1A, which reached 2.57 petaflops test in LINPACK.
The Titan will perform up to 20 quadrillion floating point operations per second, ie productivity will be 20 petaflops. For one second Titan can handle data as much as 120 billion people with calculators for 50 years.
The machine will rely on computing nodes XT3, XT4 and XT5, combined with high-productivity bus Gemini XE, and tight integration between the CPU and GPU processors. The project should be completed in 2012 when Titan will run in Supercomputing Center Oak Ridge National Laboratory at the energy ministry.
Meanwhile, IBM is working on a supercomputer with a 20 petaflops. Sequoia machine will be used to simulate nuclear explosions and their consequences.

AMD presented on the market 5 new additions to the Opteron family of processors 6100, for power saving, balanced systems for small and medium businesses with greater productivity per dollar / watt, and computing environments in the corporate and public sector. Key partners such as Acer, Dell and HP will offer this quarter new or upgraded systems that use the capabilities of the advertised 12 – and 8-core AMD Opteron processors 6100. Two new AMD Opteron HE (Highly Efficient) processors have high scalability and energy efficiency and are suitable for Web services, virtualization and cloud computing environments.
The new AMD Opteron SE (Special Edition) allows for higher productivity in key environments such as data centers, financial services, database and virtualized data centers. These processors are socket compatible with the platform on AMD Opteron 6000, as will be the upcoming 16-core AMD “Bulldozer”-and Opteron-based.
The scalability and efficient architecture of the platform AMD Opteron 6000 enabled the new Dell PowerEdge C6145 to set the record on performance 2U servers, improving more than twice the previous highest achievement in 2U server benchmark test SPECfp_rate2006.

Intel plans to introduce processors for remote management. New chips are expected to debut at the International Consumer Electronics Show CES 2011 in January, according to various online sources. Sandy Bridge chip comes with higher productivity and a number of improvements. In line mobile processors Sandy Bridge will be built in a special video module and several security technologies. The new remote control processor will allow blocking the laptop from a distance, in case of theft. Sandy Bridge is the codename for the new generation of processors from Intel, who come to inherit chips Nehalem, offering higher performance and a number of improvements. The massive sale of Sandy Bridge will start at CES 2011. Over 300 businesses and other organizations have lost more than 86,000 mobile computer stunning amount of 2,1 billion dollars, revealed a recent study of Intel and Ponemon Institute.
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Our company has been in need of robust open source business intelligence software that can fulfill our needs such as collaborating in real time on a variety of information via data visualization. We also are looking for an open source that has a easy to us reason we are choosing open source instead of traditional business intelligence is due to the fact that it can be highly customized and further plug-ins can be added that are cost effective. During our search process we came across three companies in particular that carry a nice product line of open source business intelligence products, these companies are Actuate, Jaspersoft and Pentaho. Out the three companies, Actuate was the only that stood out in terms of having an avid community of developers that help keep their open source software top of the line. Given this fact, we decided to try out Actuate BIRT and downloaded the trial version of their software. We are still in the evaluation phase of the software but find it very easy to use and straight forward. We have had no trouble generating reports and creating valuable data visualizations that we can use to collaborate and use for quick decision making. Overall, we are quite impressed but still need to try out the other two open source vendors in the market place before making a final decision.

For a short time the market appears a very interesting processor – Intel Dual Core Celeron E1400. The interesting thing in it, that is a real dual-core Conroe processor running on a strong rate of 2.00GHz. Intel still uses the old names and Pentium Celeron, which we believe have been inappropriate for the segmentation of their processors. Even if given the legacy of Pentium processors and Celeron, it is this legacy of the powerful but cumbersome Pentium 4 (Willamette, Northwood, Prescott) and their analogues with truncated Celeron cache and system bus. Heritage can only be of Pentium M (Banias and Dothan), processors that were developed in Israel and who saved Intel from breathing on their neck AMD. Perhaps few people know that the Pentium M is a direct successor to the Pentium III Tualatin, Pentium M with a few amendments to be transformed into Yonah (Core Duo, Core Solo) – ie the current dual-core processors. Banias, Dothan and Yonah are words of Jewish origin, which clearly shows the origin and the relationship between processors.
There should be a clear difference between a Pentium architecture NetBurst (Pentium 4, Pentium D and derived XEON processors and Celeron) and the Pentium, resulting from the Intel P6 (Pentium Pro, Pentium III Tualatin, later and modern Pentium M Core Duo, Solo, 2 Duo, Quad). NetBurst was branded by Intel as inefficient and expensive and therefore was removed from production. After these historical notes, let us focus on this overview of the Intel Dual Core Celeron E1400. The core processor is Conroe – 512, ie the cache of the processor is reduced to 512KV (typical for Celeron).
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Itanium server processor is not dead and have a future, it is clear from the statement of representatives of Intel and HP. Both companies denied a recent allegation of Oracle for the death of Itanium.
Intel promised to release at least two generations of its server processor. The company claims that its specialists continue to work on developing the chip.
In confirmation of this from Intel revealed several code names and details for the future processor Itanium. In particular, it comes to chips Poulson, who have 8 cores and will produce 32-nanometer process.
Like the future chips Sandy Bridge-EP and Westmere-EX, CPU Poulson has circular design in which the nuclei are placed outside of the silicon crystal in the center is a cache.
Oracle, in turn, attacked the market for HP servers. The both companies had exclusive partnership since 2008 in the servers for storage. Later, however, Oracle has acquired Sun and terminate the exclusive contract with HP, and began to launch Sparc systems and argues that they are better than HP machines.