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Submission + - Homebrew Cray-1 (chrisfenton.com)

Submitted by egil on Tuesday August 31, 2010 @01:58AM

egil writes: Chris Fenton built his own fully functional 1/10 scale Cray-1 supercomputer. True to the original, it includes the couch-seat, but is also binary compatible with the original. Instead of the power-hungry ECL technology, however, the scale model is built around a Xilinx Spartan-3E 1600 development board. All software is available if you want to build one for your own living room. The largest obstacle in the project is to find original software.

Submission + - Nokia buys Trolltech 1

Submitted by egil on Monday January 28, 2008 @07:28AM

egil writes: Trolltech announced this morning (CET) that they have accepted a bid from Nokia to buy the entire company. The bid was for 16 NOK per share, which values the company at an equivalent of approximately 150 million USD. The stock currently trades at 15.70 on the Oslo stack exchange, up from around 10 on Friday. The offer has already been accepted by the Trolltech BOD, and shareholders representing 66,43 % of the stock.

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