The US Department of Energy has announced that the Summit supercomputer will be used to attempt to find a treatment or cure for Covid-19, also known as coronavirus. Summit is a 10KW machine built with 4,608 processing nodes. Each node contains 2x Power9 CPUs at 3.07GHz and six Nvidia Volta V100 GPUs. It’s the fastest supercomputer on Earth, with a demonstrated performance of 148.6 petaFLOPS in Linpack and peak performance of over 200 petaFLOPS. The reason the DoE is tapping the world’s fastest supercomputer for the project is that trying to find methods of inhibiting or attacking a virus is a computationally taxing problem.
Here you’ll find many excellent deals on laptops from Dell, Asus, Acer, and Apple. Whether you are looking for a gaming laptop or just a new system for work, you are sure to find a system that will work for you in the list below. Although this post is oriented towards laptops, I also couldn’t resist adding in Apple’s popular iPad Mini, which is offered with a rare $50 discount. If you’re looking for a small tablet for travel, Apple’s compact iPad Mini may be the right choice for you. This tablet measures just 7.9 inches diagonally, and it has plenty of performance for gaming and multitasking curtsy of the A12 Bionic processor embedded inside.
Sonos found itself facing a public relations disaster last month when sustainability advocates drew attention to the company’s ill-planned “Trade Up” program. In order to get discounts on new audio equipment, Sonos had been , which is extremely wasteful. Sonos pledged to reevaluate the way it promotes upgrades and has now announced it . The controversy kicked off because of Sonos’ use of a feature it misleadingly called “recycle mode.” Customers who wanted to use the Trade Up program had to place their aging hardware into this mode, which sharted a 21-day countdown. At the end of that, the speaker
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe is about to make history, but the agency isn’t taking any chances. In the coming months, OSIRIS-REx will descend to the surface of the asteroid Bennu to pick up a sample, but NASA wants to get a closer look at the area before sending the spacecraft swooping down. OSIRIS-REx has just completed its , just 820 feet (250 meters) from the surface. The scientists behind were met with the same problem as JAXA researchers running Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission: asteroids are much less smooth than we expected. The surfaces of both space rocks are strewn with boulders and outcroppings that could cause damage to a space probe attempting to reach the surface.
Researchers with the security firm Positive Technologies have discovered a significant flaw in Intel chipsets dating back at least five years. The flaw is reportedly completely unfixable because it’s hard-coded into the mask ROM, making it impossible for Intel to update. It may also allow hackers to bypass any downstream attempt to secure the machine, including secondary processors like Apple’s T2 security chip. The flaw Positive Technologies found is in Intel’s Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME), which is fundamental to the boot authentication process. Features like Intel’s DRM implementation, Intel Identity Protection, and Intel’s TPM all rely on the CSME.
As we head into the weekend you can once again save big on several computers from Dell. If you’ve been looking for a new gaming desktop, this weekend you will be able to get Dell’s powerful Aurora R8 with over $400 knocked off the retail price, and there are similar offers available on XPS systems as well. With a hexa-core Intel Core i5-9400 clocked at up to 4.1GHz and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660, this system’s ready to tackle the graphically challenging games on the market today. Gamers will also appreciate the edgy Alienware case that features LED lights on the side panels.
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Samsung’s new flagship Galaxy S20 smartphone will officially launch tomorrow on March 6. Pre-order now, and you can be among the first to experience this new state-of-the-art mobile device and get a few free goodies to boot. Samsung’s new Galaxy S20 smartphone features several advancements over its predecessor, including a high-end 108MP camera with powerful 100x zoom. Add to that 5G network support and a luxurious 3,200×1,440 AMOLED display and the advantages of the Galaxy S20 are made clear. The phone officially launches tomorrow, but you can pre-order it today from Amazon and get a free set of Samsung’s Galaxy Buds headphones and a free Samsung Duo wireless charging station, too.
