Samsung’s Android-Powered Galaxy NX Camera Coming in October for a Pretty Penny
Samsung wowed us back in June when it officially announced the Galaxy NX, an interchangeable lens camera powered by Android. Today, the electronics giant is announcing that the Galaxy NX will be available for purchase in October for $1,599 (or $1,699 if you want it with an 18-55mm zoom lens). That princely sum will get you a 20.3-megapixel APS-C sensor, hybrid contrast and phase detection autofocus, ISO sensitivity up to 25,600, 8.6 frames per second burst shooting, and 1080p video recording capabilities. The NX also features a 4.8-inch, 720p touchscreen and SVGA (800 x 600 pixel) electronic viewfinder, and is powered by a 1.6GHz quad-core processor — essentially it’s a Galaxy S III smartphone grafted to the back of a camera.
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Biotech Companies Seeing ROI in HPC Systems
Over at BizTech, Kym Gilhooly writes that a growing number of businesses are acknowledging “to compete, you must compute,” turning to HPC systems to supercharge modeling, simulation and data analysis.
The commoditization of technologies used within HPC systems puts them within reach of SMBs, says James Lowey, vice president of technology at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), where he’s been involved in the deployment of three supercomputers since 2003. Processing genomics data creates unique technology demands for the Phoenix nonprofit, but Lowey says some SMBs can take advantage of packaged HPC systems priced for entry-level adoption. “You can get 512 cores, storage and fast networking capabilities in fully integrated systems,” Lowey says. “They’re available in a single rack that you essentially plug in and start using. You just need to install the software you want them to run.”
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Cloverleaf to Become openSUSE Add-on
Not long ago the Fuduntu team announced the end of their popular Fedora-based distribution due to developmental issues and later decided to offer an openSUSE based one. But yesterday, Shawn W. Dunn announced that distro would never see the light of day.
In an announcement on the Cloverleaf Website Dunn said due to manpower shortages, the openSUSE-based distribution would not be possible. As an alternative, the guys will maintain an addon repository for their “kernel, Mesa, Wine, Netflix-desktop and/or Pipelight, KlyDE, and Consort, targeting openSUSE:12.3 and openSUSE:Factory. Our repositories on OBS are not going anywhere, and may be added to any installation of openSUSE:12.3 or openSUSE:Factory.”