LHC-Large Hadron Collider

Intel to Release 6-core Dunnington soon

At the VMWorld Conference in Las Vegas, Intel will possibly release a six-core Xeon 7400 processor codenamed Dunnington. Aimed at the blade/server segment, this six-core chip is manufactured on the tick 45nm process, and will be the last chip in the Penryn lineup.

Dunnington has each core sharing 3MB of L2 cache with access to 16MB of L3 cache. Frequently used instructions can be stored in these large memory caches to reduce bottlenecks. The Thermal Design Power rating is approximately 130W, and the chip supports 1066 MegaTransfers per second interconnectivity and new SSE4 instruction sets.

At Intel Developer Forum last month, Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and co-general manager of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group announced that Intel servers had broken multiple world performance awards. The Dunnington chip will precede Nehalem chips which will come in two, four and eight cores with integrated graphics.

Source: TG Daily

Nuclear reactor in the Moon!

NASA seems to have big plans for the Moon.
It’s been long since the last manned flight to the moon. However, it is certain that NASA does have future lunar missions planned. As an initial step in this direction, it is working on a Fission Surface Power technology in order to use nuclear fission to power future outposts on the lunar surface.

The system will contain a nuclear reactor buried below the lunar surface and a tower, above the surface — with two radiators to “radiate into space” any left over energy that was not converted from electricity to heat.

According to NASA, each of these systems are capable of generating up to 40 kilowatts of electricity — enough to power eight homes, here on terra firma. Two prototypes are being tested at NASA’s Glenn test centre in Cleveland out of which one would be selected and further tests will follow. The first operational testing is expected to commence by 2012 or 2013.

This technology demonstration is being conducted as part of NASA’s Exploration Technology Development Program.

Source: Techtree.com

Big bang

The Creation of Universe

Hadron Collider attacked

Hackers came very close to hacking all the way to the core of the Large Hadron Collider’s central computer system.

A Greek group calling itself the Greek Security Team had hacked into the facility and left a page displaying their success at it. “We are 2600 – dont mess with us”, read the message.

 

The hackers attacked the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment, or CMS, one of the four “eyes” of the facility that will be analysing the fallout of the Big Bang experiment. Scientists at CERN said they were “one step away” from the computer control system of one of the huge detectors of the machine — probably ALICE .

 

Source: Techtree.com