Despite Nvidia’s ongoing claim that it is not such a great idea to compete with Intel in the blue team’s core market, it appears that Nvidia is serious about testing the server market much more than it has so far.

Nvidia’s presence in servers today is largely based on Tesla accelerator units, but the company may be leveraging its Tegra platform to push into the CPU market as well. According to an article published by PC World, it will be Project Denver that is designed to create a foundation in the server CPU market for the graphics chip maker. Steve Scott, CTO for Tesla, said that Denver will be part of future Tegra chips and there will be tweaks for chips targeted at servers.

Nvidia originally announced Project Denver back in January, but did not break out the server segment as target market. Back then, the company said that the chip will be coupled with Nvidia GPUs to create a heterogeneous computing platform. It appears that Denver is moving along as Nvidia is getting a bit more specific. The company will be competing against other ARM products such as Marvell processors, but the real target appears to be Intel’s Atom server structure.

Nvidia did not say when the new core will be available.

SOURCE via PC World

Do you find yourself in constant trouble with the law? Is the backseat of a police car your second home? Now you can alert family members, friends and lawyers about your next “incident” in real time with a touch of a single virtual button thanks to the Android app “I’m Getting Arrested.” Now available on the Android Market, the app quickly broadcasts a custom message to SMS numbers provided after entering a brief 160 character message.

“I’m Getting Arrested” was created by artist and technologist Jason Van Anden of Quadrant 2. His inspiration stemmed from an incident with a friend camped out in the Occupy Wall Street scene who reportedly came within “one nightstick swing” of being arrested. That led to Van Anden wondering how he would have known if his Wall Street-occupying friends had actually been detained.

“The next two nights I burnt the midnight oil,” he said. “It’s a technology that fits well with democracy.”

The app reportedly caught on with the Wall Street protesters, and in just two weeks after its release, the app saw more than 5,600 downloads across the globe. Most of these downloads took place within the United States followed by the United Arab Emirates and Belarus.

Thing is, Van Anden isn’t one of the protesters — he believes in the movement but would rather spend his time developing software for companies like Tiffany & Co. and Citibank. “I support what they’re doing,” he said. “I was glad that I was able to contribute something with my skill-set.”

“I’m Getting Arrested” is free and can be downloaded here. Based on feedback, users now want the ability to post to Twitter, grant access to the phone’s GPS for tracking, and the ability to lock the phone to prevent police snooping.

SOURCE via Brookly n Paper

For the most recent period, the first half of 2011, Google is providing much more raw data, including the number of affected users and accounts, as well as a breakdown of Google’s products.

These requests are, in the majority of nations, on the rise and are apparently much more complex to deal with for Google. Google claims that the detail level of its Transparency Report shows that the laws that touch information on the Internet need to be updated. According to the new report, the number of content removal requests jumped by 27 percent in France, by 38 percent in Germany, by 36 percent in South Korea, by 28 percent in Spain, by 71 percent in the UK and by 70 percent in the U.S. For the first time, Google received content removal requests from Cook Islands, Poland and Sri Lanka.

In the U.S. Google complied in 63 percent of the cases. In a special case, Google said that it received a request to remove a YouTube video that showed police brutality, which Google did not comply with. In total there were requests to remove 757 items, 198 relating to Web Search, 2 to Images, 1 to Books, 379 to Groups, 113 to YouTube, 47 to Blogger, 5 to Picasa, 7 to Adwords and 2 to Gmail. The overwhelming majority of removal requests were because of defamation (607), followed by privacy concerns (80).

Dow Jones Newswires reports that HP has teamed up with semiconductor start-up Calxeda to develop servers based on ultra low-power ARM chips. These servers will be focused on companies who build large data centers and need to lower both their physical footprint and overall energy consumption. These companies include those who deal with cloud computing, the Internet, and those looking to do analysis on their data.

According to sources close to the project, HP and Calxeda will soon unveil a prototype server and plans for a proof-of-concept program as well as more details about partnerships. Sample chips produced by the partnership will likely make an appearance by the end of the year, and then ramp up to a full-fledged volume production by the second half of 2012. These chips will consume about 90-percent less energy, take up around 90-percent less space and have a lower overall cost of ownership compared to Intel’s mid-range server processors.

ARM is actually an investor in the Austin, Texas-based Calxeda. According to reports, the first reference design will be based on an ARM Cortex-A9 quad-core SoC. Server builders will be able to design systems as dense as 120 ARM quad-core nodes (480 cores) in a 2U enclosure, with an average consumption of around 5W per node (1.25W per core). The chips may be manufactured at Globalfoundries using 45-nm or 28-nm process technology.

Naturally HP, ARM and Calxeda declined to comment on partnerships that have not been made public. However last week ARM Vice President Michael Inglis said that ARM-based chips will first appear in server machines used to support basic access to websites, and then move up to more powerful systems. “As we move forward into 2014, you’ll begin to see systems emerging,” he said.

Meanwhile Intel seemingly doesn’t take ARM’s entry into the server market as an immediate threat. “We don’t take any threats to our server business lightly, but there are a number of challenges for the ARM architecture to be successful in the server market,” Intel spokesman Bill Calder said. “We believe the best-performing platform will win.”

In addition to working with HP, unnamed sources report that Calxeda is also talking with other major server makers, storage vendors and other companies about using its processors in their products. Partnerships are expected to be announced within the next few months. Karl Freund, Calxeda vice president of marketing, said the company is in various stages of discussions with many partners about bringing products to market.

Nvidia is apparently planning to release an updated and upgraded version of its GTX 560 Ti graphics card reference model. This new Ti will, if VR-Zone is right, be based on the GF110 chip, which makes it a close relative to the 570 and 580 models. It will also mean a drop of the current GF114.

The publication reports that the new 560 Ti will essentially be a 570 with 14 (and one disabled) streaming multiprocessor with a total of 448 cores, up from the current 384. It is more than likely that the clock speed will be below that of the 570. Expect to see the 320-bit memory interface with 56 TMUs and 40 ROPs.

The likely performance gain is pure speculation at this time, but I will make an educated guess that the card will be consuming more power than the 170 W of the current 560 Ti and move closer to the 219 W of the 570.

Current 560 Ti graphics cards sell for street prices in the $220 to $270 range. An upgrade could breathe more life into the card, which should help Nvidia move more chips during the upcoming Christmas season.

SOURCE via vr-zone

While we already know that Nvidia’s Tegra 3 quad-core SoC (aka Kal-El) will arrive in the 10-inch Asus Eee Pad Transformer 2 (Prime) tablet, Asus CEO Jonney Shih said that both the tablet and the highly-anticipated superpowered-chip will arrive on November 9.

Nvidia’s Tegra 3 was previously reported to arrive by the end of summer or early September, but the company delayed its release due to a need for an increased validation timeframe. “It took a little more time than we thought to get the software optimized for the hardware,” a Nvidia spokesperson told EE Times. “We are on schedule.”

Recent reports claim that the Transformer 2′s quad-core Tegra 3 chip will clock at 1.3 GHz per core. It will also feature either 16 GB ($499) or 32 GB ($599) of internal storage, depending on your wallet. Other features will include Google 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” as the gadget’s OS, a microSD card slot for up to 32 GB of extra storage, a USB port, a mini-HDMI port, a 14.5-hour battery, a rear-facing camera with an LED flash — all packed within a 8.3-mm frame.

SOURCE via EETimes

Published by German hacker group The Hacker’s Choice, the THC-SSL-DOS is designed to highlight weaknesses in SSL and force “the industry” to make SSL more secure.

“We decided to make the official release after realizing that this tool leaked to the public a couple of months ago” the group wrote in a blog post. “We are hoping that the fishy security in SSL does not go unnoticed. The industry should step in to fix the problem so that citizens are safe and secure again. SSL is using an aging method of protecting private data which is complex, unnecessary and not fit for the 21st century.”

According to the group, a notebook and a DSL connection is enough to kill a simple SSL server. Larger server farms required 20 notebooks and traffic of about 120 Kbps. The basic feature of THC-SSL-DOS is that it demands renegotiations of encryption keys, which creates up to 1000 parallel connections between the client and the server. As a result, any SSL server is vulnerable to this tool – not just web servers, but email servers as well.

The software is available as a free download for Windows and Unix. Before you download it and use it, keep in mind that using the software will most likely be considered a criminal act.