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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[Lets hope those systems don't have a Death Grip... ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Calvin Lee]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 8:13AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[But will it run Crysis?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TheCake]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 8:19AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[@WhoIsCalvin <br><br>You my friend fail on multiple levels.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Fais]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 8:24AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[@WhoIsCalvin <br><br>Do you think it will blend?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 8:43AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[@WhoIsCalvin I hope you get down voted for being one of the people who are forcing memes on almost every article that isn't in any way shape or form at all related at all.<br><br>Comment Responsibly.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Teslanaut]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 9:02AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[@WhoIsCalvin <br>TOTALLY worth a Quake deathmatch! ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[toyotast165]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 9:08AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[@TheCake <br>Crysis LAN party! Wewt!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scrubs]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 11:03AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[go tech go!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[nonfictionable]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 8:18AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[Pluh!<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TheIndyGamer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 8:30AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[Are they using student tuition or our tax dollars for this crap?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[iPhone 4]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 9:32AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[@iPhone 4 <br>You sound uneducated. You also sound fat.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Zhukov]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 11:13AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[@iPhone 4 yes, because a public university using funds to make a supercomputer is a total waste of time. There is nothing students and PhDs could learn from building it or using it to run mathematical models of things.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[red]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 5:31PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[@redkamel  I stand corrected. The way the article is written it sounds like we are building a $2M super computer for its own sake.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[iPhone 4]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 9:13PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[Go HOKIES!  :-)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[patrick4vt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 9:41AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[@patrick4vt they may have Hokie speed but just wait until September 6 when they see Bronco speed.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[awsomesauce]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 10:48AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[I find this difficult to masturbate to.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hurricane]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 9:49AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[It is so funny. I studied at Vtech and Wu Feng was my professor...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TheAndrey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 10:04AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[These look like cheap generic 1u boxes that have GPUs in them.  Or is there some other special thing about them that I might be missing?  Special interconnect?  FPGA card?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[CodyTech]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 10:17AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[2 million dollars on this new super computer? Wow, that's A LOT cheaper than 324 Mac Pros. By at least a million, if not more.<br><br>:)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Prevacator]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 10:34AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Prevacator <br>Not necessarily.  I've bought for education before, and the discounts on hardware are somewhat decent.  (And the discount on software is amazing)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 6:53PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[The one pictured is nothing special. It is not the cluster being discussed however, just a temporary testbed for in-group use.  HokieSpeed will be a different animal.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[njustn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 10:37AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[they may have hokie speed but wait until <br>September 6th when they see BRONCO SPEED<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[awsomesauce]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 10:46AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[Tech student here.  Don't be knockin' our Quake LAN parties!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Galactor963]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 11:13AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[If the pic is accurate, they look like supermicro servers.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[xavierk]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 12:06PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[Look its the next android phone haha. But seriously it'll be interesting to see how it holds up.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AndroidArmy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 12:07PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[GPUs are dominating in parallel processing. A good analogy is a math professor versus a room of math students. China hit the Top 10 last year with a Radeon based supercomputer at #5 then moved up to #2 with a GeForce based one this year]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[JohnTitor]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 12:31PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[That last bit wouldn't be to bad at all.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[EagleyeSmith]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 12:57PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[That picture.. It did something to my eyes..]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[sirkiwi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 7:02PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[I was at a demo where the new head of DARPA came through and looked at our research projects at Tech last summer, these guys had an early prototype of this running some sort of real time particle physics rendering magic program and based on the numbers they were talking about using just 1 GPU, I was freaking impressed, I can't imagine how awesome this is going to be. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[risknc]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 7th 2010 11:07PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer to rely on CPU and GPU synergies]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/07/virginia-techs-hokiespeed-supercomputer-to-rely-on-cpu-and-gpu/</guid><description><![CDATA[I have to transfer to Virginia Tech now, just for the Quake deathmatch]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[classicvibe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 8th 2010 2:55AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
