SHOCM » news http://www.shocm.com Open Source, Cloud, Scotch, Baseball, Family, and Programming since the 1900's Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:06:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Is the Terminator, a Sony Playstation at heart? http://www.shocm.com/2008/06/is-the-terminator-a-sony-playstation-at-heart/ http://www.shocm.com/2008/06/is-the-terminator-a-sony-playstation-at-heart/#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:39:30 +0000 Eric http://www.vanjohnson.com/2008/is-the-terminator-a-sony-playstation-at-heart/ Will we have Sony to blame when computers become self-aware and start taking over the earth? I came across a news story today that leads me to think, “Yeah, maybe.”

Military Supercomputer Sets Record

Here is the piece that caught my attention.

“The Roadrunner is based on a radical design that includes 12,960 chips that are an improved version of an I.B.M. Cell microprocessor, a parallel processing chip originally created for Sony’s PlayStation 3 video-game machine. The Sony chips are used as accelerators, or turbochargers, for portions of calculations.”

Check out the full story on The New York Times Website

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Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violation

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