XtremLab is back!

[AMD-USR_JL]

Yea the old Xboxes are not good at Dcing. They only had a 733Mhz Celeron processor with 64mb of ram. They did have a 10gb hdd think. I was going to put linux on mine, but my Cd-drive broke . It was 6 years old .

I can't wait for the ps3 though, they said it will have an OS on it, maybe linux or MAC. It's going to have 7 3.2Ghz ppc cores. It will have 256 Mb of Xdr ram @3.2Ghz and 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz. I dunno what kind of ram those are, but they sound pretty SwEEt. It has a really awesome gpu too(1.8 TERAFLOPS), if they ever make apps that use it. The only bad thing is that it isn't IEEE whatever compliant in 32-bit mode. It only is in 64-bit, and no projects use 64-bit code yet. In 64-bit mode the 7 cores do an estimated 25Gflops, in comparison my dually does 3.4-3.5.

[NeoGen]

okay, I'll bite..... explain your "virtual" machine please.

A virtual machine is a software emulation of a computer. Ever heard of VMWare, or Virtual PC?
Anyways... you setup a virtual machine with some desired parameters for RAM and harddrive, start it up and install an OS on it just like you would do on a normal machine. It really shows everything as if it was a normal machine, only that it runs on a window.

The only thing is that the virtual machine runs way slower than a real machine so it is not good for projects that are cpu intensive. XtremLab happens to not make much use out of the cpu so it's just good for one.

And yea... Intels are pretty good too. I was kidding with you. I think that on most (if not all) maths projects they are as good or even better than AMD's.