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• ASIC Development Costs are Lower Than You Think
  The minimal development costs for an ASIC are much lower than people think. These costs go toward: Designing the ASIC; the output is typically a GDSII file (a one-time cos
• The Insane Bitcoin ASIC Race — And The Winner is...
  ...Avalon! They delivered the first Bitcoin ASIC mining device today. And to no less than core Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik, see his blog: box opening , internals , minin
• Company Announces 65nm Chip for Mining Bitcoins, Funded with Venture Capital
  Confidence in Bitcoin has never been demonstrated in such a blazing way. A private company announced they designed a full custom 65nm ASIC for mining bitcoins. They claim
• 1TB Hard Drive Prices up 180% in a Month
  The Newegg price charts on Camelegg sum this up illustratively: Thailand manufactures 25% of the world's hard drives, and the severe 2011 monsoon season floods affected so
• Neutrinos Faster Than Light, or Artifacts of the FPGA?
  I spent my week-end reading comments from theoretical physicists, geodesists, and other scientists, speculating on the news of the OPERA experiment that appears to measure
• Bitcoin Inspires Copycats, First Tangible Good Sold for i0coins
  Bitcoin —or digital gold as it can be best described in two simple words because it is scarce and has valuable properties, yet controlled by no one, and can be sent digita
• 72-hour Outage
  I apologize for a 72-hour outage that affected all *.zorinaq.com services: DNS, Web, Blog, etc. Everything was down from Aug 12 0436 UTC to Aug 15 0447 UTC. My services ar
• Tip to Use a Dremel to Cut Open a PCIe x1 Slot
  Take a look at this picture of a PCI-Express x1 slot (at the end of a flexible extender) that was cut out to allow down-plugging a PCIe x16 card into it. I noticed that wh
• Dear Computer Industry, Please Embrace eSATAp
  The eSATAp (power over eSATA) standard is a little gem that is not very well-known. It is the simplest way to externally connect any 2.5" drive to a computer via an inexpe
• DIY Coin-sized SATA Power Module to Replace a Harddrive Docking Station
  I find harddrive docking stations too bulky, slow, and unreliable. They are (1) inconvenient to carry when travelling light with a laptop, (2) offer relatively little thro
• The Bitcoin Cryptocurrency
  Have you ever encountered something that is so cleverly designed, so profoundly unique, and such a polarizing concept, that when people first hear about it, they either di
• Stupid Simple Cooling Hack for 4 x HD 5970 in one Computer
  I am asked sometimes why I used a cheap $60 motherboard with PCIe x1 slots and four $30 flexible PCIe x1 extenders to build this 4 x AMD Radeon HD 5970 graphics card machi
• 10 AMD/ATI GPUs in 1 Computer: SIGSEGV
  After great success at running 8 GPUs under Linux in one machine , I have decided to try 10 GPUs (5 dual-GPU AMD Radeon HD 5970). Unfortunately the X11 fglrx driver crashe
• New Power Distribution to 4 x HD 5970
  After putting about 100 hours of full load on my 4 x AMD Radeon HD 5970 brute forcing machine , I completely disassembled it to visually inspect all internal power connect
• Whitepixel breaks 28.6 billion password/sec
  I am glad to announce, firstly, the release of whitepixel , an open source GPU-accelerated password hash auditing software for AMD/ATI graphics cards that qualifies as the
• DDRdrive X1 vs. SSDs: Look How Complex Benchmarking is
  As a follow-up to my post about flaws in many SSD benchmark reviews , I just stumbled upon an excellent presentation by Christopher George, founder and CTO of DDRdrive , w
• NetApp: 40x Markup on the Price of NAND Flash
  NetApp Flash Cache (previously known as the Performance Acceleration Module II, or PAM II) is simply 256 GB or 512 GB of SLC NAND flash on a PCIe x8 card. It plugs into Ne
• Introducing Tianhe-1A: 4702 TFLOPS of GPU Power. Made in China. (And New World's Fastest Supercomputer).
  Today at HPC 2010 China, the GPU-based Tianhe-1A was revealed and introduced as the new world's fastest supercomputer. Many news sites fail to give complete specifications
• Decimal Prefixes Are More Common Than Binary Prefixes In The Computer Industry
  Everytime a power-of-10 versus power-of-2 debate emerges, I like to remind people that contrary to common belief, decimal prefixes (as in 1kB = 1000 bytes) are much more c
• AMD Bulldozer and Oracle SPARC T3: Same Beefed-up SMT Microarchitectures
  Here is an insightful technical post on the new SPARC T3 processor from Joerg Moellenkamp (16 cores and 128 threads on 1 socket). Oracle just announced 1-, 2-, and 4-socke
• Intel's Sandy Bridge to Deliver 2% of AMD's Top Graphics Performance
  Pardon the obnoxious title of this post, but here is something I want to share, and I feel it is necessary to disperse some absurd ideas going around. Intel's next generat
• Specs of the Best Android Phones
  If I were to rank the best Android phones —I favor CPU speed, unit weight, and have 512MB RAM minimum as a requirement— my list would be: Samsung Galaxy S , 1GHz Hummingbi
• Panasonic R3 Power Jack Solder Joint Reflowing
  Tonight, I had to reflow the solder joint of the power jack on my laptop. In more than 5.5 years of abusing^Husing this Panasonic R3 every single day as my main computer,
• Perl Numeric Expressions And Backslashes
  I just wasted 30 minutes of my time trying to figure out a strange bug in a Perl script generating Atmel AVR assembly code —for a hardware hacking project I will blog abou
• Debunking Intel's Attempt to Debunk the GPU Performance Myth
  In a technical paper published on June 23, 2010, at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) in Saint-Malo, France, Debunking the 100X GPU vs. CPU myth
• Pictures of Nebulae, the Fastest GPU Supercomputer
  I have not seen these pictures disseminated anywhere other than on one chinese technology website, IT168 , so I thought I would share. They show Nebulae, the number 2 supe
• A Look at the 4640-GPU Nebulae Supercomputer
  [Update: Do not miss the pictures of Nebulae I posted in a followup write up. ] The TOP500 list for June 2010 has just been published. A second supercomputer built on GPUs
• The 5-second VGA Dummy Plug
  VGA dummy plugs were made popular by folders . They are electronic devices used to fake the presence of a monitor attached to a VGA or DVI output port so that the graphics
• Disk Vibrations and SSDs
  Optimizing storage is a big part of my work on rainbow tables (that I have yet to publish). I like to read Robin Harris (from StorageMojo , and Storage Bits ) who is a pro
• Looking at 6-, 8-, and 12-core Processors
  As someone doing research in cryptographic brute force attacks, which are embarrasingly parallel workloads, I keep an interested eye on the latest advances in multi-core p

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