Intel® Turbo Boost Technology

Recently intel has introduced many exciting feature to their Intel microarchitecture, one of such powerful technology is Intel Turbo Boost Technology which enables processor cores to run faster than the base operating frequency if it's operating below power, current, and temperature specification limits.

This technology provides a dramatic performance improvement in both multi-threaded and single threaded workloads along with Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology). Intel Turbo Boost Technology is only activated when the Operating System (OS) requests the highest processor performance state which means the amount of time a processor spend on Intel Turbo Boost Technology state is almost depend on the workload user needs and the operating environment.The maximum frequency of Intel® Turbo Boost Technology is dependent on the number of active cores.

several upper limits of boost technology are:
* Number of active cores
* Estimated current consumption
* Estimated power consumption
* Processor temperature

according to intel,it says that when user demand additional performance,

"the processor frequency will dynamically increase by 133 MHz on short and regular intervals until the upper limit is met or the maximum possible upside for the number of active cores is reached. Conversely, when any of the limits are reached or exceeded, the processor frequency will automatically decrease by 133 MHz until the processor is again operating within its limits."

source:intel
Tags: intel,micro processors,Hyper-Threading

Cisco MXE 3000 Series (Media Experience Engines)

The Cisco Media Experience Engine 3000 is a media processing platform which automates the media production process.According to Cisco, with a single,streamlined workflow, you may

•Choose your input media from file.

•Apply preprocessing to prepare the input media for encoding.

•Encode input to produce high-quality streaming video in popular formats.

•Encode input to produce broadcast server-compatible video in several other popular formats.

•Distribute the media output to multiple destinations via copy, FTP, and HTTP post.


The ability to automate the streaming media workflow and reuse the video knowledge of others in the form of a saved set of tasks and instructions has given a great power over other products.

Basically, Cisco MXE 3000 is able to perform following specific tasks:

•The Cisco MXE 3000 transforms analog and digital media to enable:

Distribution of content in any format for playback on broadcast, Web, or portable wireless equipment

Content workflow between heterogeneous components

•Integrates many 3rd party codecs into well-defined workflows:

Automate encoding into different formats

Tags: Cisco products

HP introduces new battry for Laptops

HP technologies has planned to offer a new power efficient battery for their existing notebooks, which charges much faster than the regular battery and it is expected to last tree times longer !!

IBM collobaration with latest World Community Grid project

IBM and researchers from Harvard University are working together to invent a inexpensive and efficient solar cell base on the organic materials. Such effort will require huge computational power due to thousands of organic materials available and each of such material has to be analyzed for various combinations.The principal investigator and a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, at Harvard. "It would take us about 100 days of computational time to screen each of the thousands of compounds for electronic properties".

Therefore researches has decided to get the support of World Community Grid which enables harnessing the power of hundreds of thousands of idle PCs exist around the world.The solar power project is the latest for World Community Grid, which harnesses the power of more than 410,000 members and more than 1 million computers.Yet with World Community Grid's free computing power, augmented by cloud computing, the project is estimated to complete in two years what would have taken 22 years to run on a regular scientific cluster."
source: IBM
Tags: IBM,Grid Computing

BlackBerry® Storm™ smartphone

The new BlackBerry® Storm™ smartphone, exclusive to Vodafone, features a clickable touch screen which allows accurate navigation and typing. The screen with full QWERTY keyboard makes instant responses easier and more efficient. You can even change the way you view the screen - portrait to send a quick email, or landscape to watch a movie, or track your journey on Sat Nav through the wide, high-resolution screen.

The device has been designed for people who place equal importance on work and play such as email and the internet, and enjoying the flexibility of listening to music and watching movies.
>> source : ZDNet

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Google TO-DO List - Never miss tasks again!!

Google has come up with another cool feature… a TO-DO List which is something that I was thinking last few weeks (amazing !!). As the Google convention, the current version of the TO-DO List is available in the Lab section named as ‘Tasks’. Once you enable, it will appear under the Contact menu in your Google interface.

Google has included number of handy tools (as you can see below), where you can even create separate lists, adding dates, filtering and more. Thus you don’t have to even click on a button to save your task, Google will auto save them on behalf of you.

Another cool feature of this tool is to; it has given you the option to add your emails directly to your TO-Do list. You can find this option under ‘More Actions’ menu.