The developers of the open source alternative ROM for Android devices lost control of their main domain for a brief time; however, after announcing the transition to a secondary domain, they were able to resolve the issue.
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OnLive Makes Good On Its Promise, Brings Its Cloud Gaming Service To LG’s G2 Smart TVs
These days OnLive is probably known as much for its unexpected meltdown as it is for its promise to deliver streaming video games to the masses, but ever since the company reformed it seems to have returned to business as usual.
To wit: the folks behind the cloud gaming service have made good on an old promise to integrate OnLive with the Korean company’s new line of Google-friendly G2 Smart TVs.
If you happen to be a G2 TV owner, you may already have been nagged to install the necessary update, and the OnLive app will be pre-installed on all LG G2s going forward. Of course, there is a catch here — those current and future can’t actually start playing the games in OnLive’s catalog until they purchase one of the company’s (rather odd looking) wireless controllers first.
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HP PC Chief: Surface is ‘Kludgey,’ Not Really Competition
Todd Bradley said that the tablet tends to be slow and is expensive, and is getting more attention than it deserves. [Read more]
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Google Nexus 7 on AT&T Network Sold Out
The AT&T network version of the Nexus 7 is sold out only a couple of days after it went on sale. [Read more]
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Nvidia’s Ginormous Gift to Linux Gamers
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Russian RSC Deploys Europe’s Largest University Super with Xeon Phi
This week the RSC Group from Russia announced that the new RSC Tornado SUSU supercomputer was deployed at the South Ural State University (SUSU). As Europe’s largest university supercomputing system equipped with Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, the new system includes 192 computing nodes with direct liquid cooling and 236.8 TFLOP of performance.
In recent years Russia has actively developed computing centers at the national level, primarily in the leading universities. The creation of the Europe’s largest university supercomputer with the latest Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors SE10X in South Ural State University further confirms Russian government’s and Leadership’s commitment to improve Russia’s competitiveness by actively developing the intellectual potential of the country and the use of Intel’s state-of-the-art high-performance and energy efficient technology,” said Christian Morales, Intel’s Vice-President and General Manager in EMEA.
Look for the RSC Group booth #4721 at SC12. Read the Full Story.
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CARMA Cluster Pairs ARM with GPUs in HPC Appliance
This week the Italian E4 Computer Engineering group launched the CARMA Cluster, a low-power HPC appliance that pairs an ARM processor with a Nvidia GPU.
We felt an immediate connection with SECO in terms of experimentation and innovation,†said Simone Tinti, HPC Team Leader of E4 Computer Engineering. “The CARMA DEV kit on which our series is based has proved to be one of the most interesting devices to create low power, low-energy high performance appliances which will be welcomed by all HPC users.â€
The CARMA appliance was designed for for seismic processing, signal and image processing, video analytics, traffic analysis and many other applications.
See the The E4 CARMA CLUSTER series at the ARM booth #122 at SC12. Read the Full Story.
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- Contest Winner – Cuda on ARM Developer Kit to be Named CARMA
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