Late last year, AMD-ATI introduced their first Stream processor, announcing their efforts in GP-GPU computing for scientific, engineering and other compute-intensive applications. This time around the card is built on a 55nm GPU architecture, most likely a close kin to AMD's RV670 GPU. The FireStream 9170 will support double-precision floating point calculations and massively parallel processing between its 320 stream cores, driving 500 GFLOPS of throughput.
For four decades, residents of the tiny Pennsylvania town of Kecksburg have told their story of strange blue lights in the sky one winter's evening and a fireball crashing into woods.
Only in Japan, right? Have you ever driven over a road that has grooves in it, such that you get a (usually nasty) resonance and vibration? That's often done to make sure you don't drive off the edge of an offramp or some other similar "hazard." Well, a Japanese scientist got the "bright idea" of cutting the grooves in such a way as to produce a kind of music.
Should we concern ourselves then with the misuse of statistical treatments of data in science? The answer is yes, we should. In a recent communication to this author, Dr. Erik Randich of the Lawrence Livermore National Lab stated; 'Some recent forensic papers are cleverly using certain statistical methods to answer the question the author wants to answer and perhaps not the correct question that should be asked.';
University of Idaho researchers are crossing academic and geographical bounds to develop more effective defenses against Staphylococcus aureus bacteria and other deadly pathogens.
