Ballmer is reportedly considering changing his company’s structure around focusing its efforts on “devices and services.” [Read more]
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TACC’s Hadoop Cluster Makes Big Data Research More Accessible
This system offers researchers a total of 48, eight-processor nodes on TACC’s Longhorn cluster to run Hadoop in a coordinated way with accompanying large-memory processors. A user on the system can request all 48 nodes for a maximum of 96 terabytes (TB) of distributed storage. What’s special about the Longhorn cluster at TACC isn’t simply the beefed-up hardware for running Hadoop; rather it’s the ability for researchers to leverage the vast compute capabilities of the center, including powerful visualization and data analysis systems, to further their investigations. The end-to-end research workflow enabled by TACC could not be done anywhere else, and as a bonus, researchers get access to the full suite of tools available at the center to do computational research.
According to TACC Research Associate Weijia Xu, the best part is that Hadoop is easy to use without requiring users to be experts. It handles a lot of the low-level computing behavior, so people don’t need to have a lot of knowledge about I/O or memory structures to get started.
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Samsung Unveils 8-inch and 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab 3 Android Tablets, Coming in June
Samsung has added two new Android tablets to its Galaxy Tab 3 range, introducing new 8-inch and 10.1-inch models that complement its existing 7-inch device. The 8-inch Galaxy Tab 3 features a 1.5 GHz dual core processor, WXGA TFT 1280 x 800 (189 PPI) display, 1.5GB of RAM, a 5-megapixel rear-facing (1.3-megapixel front-facing) camera, a 4,450 mAh battery, and 16/32GB of internal storage.
It’s bigger counterpart has a 1.6 GHz dual core processor, a 1280 x 800 (149 PPI) WXGA TFT display, 1GB of RAM, and 6,800 mAh battery. However, the 10.1-inch tablet only features a 3-megapixel rear-facing camera, but does include the same 1.3-megapixel camera as the 8-inch Tab. Both variants run Android 4.2.2 and feature Samsung’s suite of TouchWiz…
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ARM’s New Cortex-A12 is Ready to Power 2014’s Midrange $200 Smartphones
We already know what ARM has planned for 2014’s high-end smartphones, but what about cheaper handsets? The company who designs many of the processor cores inside today’s mobile devices is preparing new mid-range silicon that it believes can offer increased performance in phones that could cost as little as $200 off-contract. The new Cortex-A12 core will offer 40 percent more performance as the existing Cortex-A9 which appears in chips like today’s Tegra 3 and Snapdragon S4, though it won’t be quite up to the standard set by the Cortex-A15 you’ll find in devices that have Samsung’s Exynos 5250 or Nvidia’s Tegra 4, to say nothing of next year’s Cortex-A57 based silicon.
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