BEA has turned down Oracle’s $17 a share bid to buy out BEA, instead making a counteroffer of $21 a share, which Oracle says is ‘impossibly high’.
CNet.com screenshots of Mac OS X Leopard
CNet.com have a set of screenshots from Mac OS X Leopard, due to be released tomorrow, 10/26/07. Certainly looks pretty slick…
BBC’s TopGear to be available from Gran Turismo TV
Sony have announced a tie in with the BBC to make 40 full length episodes of the awesome motoring TV show ‘Top Gear’ available from within the upcoming Gran Turismo 5 game, in a feature they are calling Gran Turismo TV. Gran Turismo 5 is not due to be released until next year, but in the meantime GT5 Prologue will be available towards the end of this year to offer a demo of the upcoming, and long awaited sequel to arguably the best ever driving simulation game ever.
8 Networked PS3s equivalent to a 200 CPU Supercomputer
The PS3 has already been demonstrating it’s raw computing horsepower from users donating their console’s time for Stanford’s ‘Folding@Home’ project, to process data simulating protein folding for the project. Currently the project is employing 889 TFLOPs of computing power from 36,000 PS3s. As a comparison, 179,000 Windows based machines are only providing 170 TFLOPs.
Directly harnessing the computing power of the PS3’s Cell processor, a professor at the University of Massachusetts is using 8 networked PS3s to provide the same equivalent computing power that he was renting from a supercomputer with 200 processors.