Los Angeles sheriff s Sgt. Martin Acosta says the intruders entered the home through an unlocked screen door Sunday night while two men and a woman inside were watching the Lakers game. The victims were bound with duct tape and one suffered a minor cut when struck on the head with a handgun. Acosta says the home was ransacked but the video game system was the only thing taken. Comments E mail story Printer friendly page Subscribe to Print Share this story Digg it del.icio.us AIM Advertisement Search Archives or Search News Search Local Search Web Web Search powered by YAHOO SEARCH News Sports Business Life Entertainment Calendar Blogs Opinion Obits Classifieds Cars Homes Jobs Shopping Contact Us Text Only Site Map RSS Subscribe Advertise FresnoBee.com ClovisIndependent.com VidaEnElValle.com SierraStar.com CentralValley.com FresnoFamous.com Copyright The Fresno Bee Help Your Privacy User Agreement Child Protection By Shawn Elliott Engineers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and IBM Corp. recently unveiled Roadrunner a million machine that occupies square feet weighs pounds and sustains performance at petaflop speed trillion calculations per second . The Associated Press H. Josef Herbert reports that some elements of the data crunching monster which could be used to help develop an AIDS vaccine or understand the origins of the universe can be traced back to popular videogames. In some ways it s a very souped up Sony PlayStation David Turek vice president of IBM s supercomputing programs told Herbert. We took the basic chip design of a PlayStation and advanced its capability. Image courtesy of the Associated Press. RSS Share on Facebook Digg It Thumbs See Latest News MEMBER COMMENTS See Author Twin Tiger Good things CAN come from video games. From Crash Bandicoot to curing AIDS. It s a beautiful thing. ahhh Author megadark or eats his own shit uh huh. Author Spazzitch The chances that this guy ISN T basically full of shit are astronomically small. another one Author megadark Actually when compared the PS does a number of things better if not everything agggghem Author megadark Actually tera is the term used for trillion peta is beyond that oh soo far beyond that what s this got to do with MGS Author Brawl Bruiser WOW a supercomputer powered with tons of cell processors.how bout that MGS wha some random xboter wants to talk shit about this game where of xbox owners want this to eventually come to the including me just a little outta left field if . .Read Full Comment RE Landerosa Author Kokoru LMAOROFL That was freaking gold man. That comment explains itself Pure awesomeness lmao Know whats funny Author Kokoru This still doesn t hold a candle to a Quantum Supercomputer. Funny because we as a public probably won t hear anything about this for another years. That pesky military and their road blocks lol Lies about MGS review scores Author Qui Gon Jim I m sorry but i just had to respond to Saren Arterius s um misinformed statements. As of right now evening of June th MGS has reviews up on metacritic with a wieghted average score of . Three of those are from PS dedicated magazines. If you remove those . .Read Full Comment LOL Listen to this Author Saren Arterius A guy I know just said I wonder if they will use that computer to count how many MGS pre orders were cancelled due to the disappointing reviews from unbiased sources e.g. people who aren t PS editors . out of is the most common score for MGS and that really . .Read Full Comment What a shame PS has no games Author Saren Arterius The only area PS outperforms Xbox is math FLOPS which are useless for graphics. At least PS can cure AIDS better than Microsoft. Oh wait Gates started the world s largest charity and pretty much has HIV beat. They are now looking for an AIDS vaccine. Sux to . .Read Full Comment And right after it cures AIDS Author Lunderosa it will become self aware and actually set off some real nukes and we can fight cyborgs in a few years what else have we been training with all those FPSs for The Future The Ultimate FPS This will be Playstation Author kyscraper Antfarm Only they will make a slim version. Author Shinoda AND ITS STILL NOT ENOUGH TO RUN CRYSIS. LOL Old News Author Shinoda I read about this in the Daily News newspaper like am this morning.and this guy is on Sony s payroll.I have proof. Let us PS owners be happy Author DrDamz that this was inspired by sony. thankfully or else it d get a red ring of death in the middle of the process for an aids vaccine Before you people get. Author luisu oa out of hand. This computer is powered by hundreds of cell chip and hundreds of AMD chips as well. So don t go saying that your plain old PS can do this. How come. Author luisu oa up is always late with the news. This was already up at GS. Given the speed tech progresses. Author BlazingAero .this level of computing would be available in a single box in your house within years. Too bad the global economy is headed for a brick wall and that won t happen. Given the speed tech progresses. Author BlazingAero .this level of computing would be available in a single box in your house within years. Too bad the global economy is headed for a brick wall and that won t happen. I wonder. Author Serraxor .if it could handle Crysis on full graphics settings P Ads by Google Subscribe to UP s Google Co op feed. GAMEFINDER Looking for a game Try UP s GameFinder tool. DIGITAL DOWNLOAD Download your favorite PC games and free game demos Top Games Halo Mass Effect Rock Band Killzone Crysis GTA IV StarCraft Metal Gear Solid Super Smash Bros. Brawl Super Mario Galaxy Top Cheats Ninja Gaiden SuperGuide Lego Indiana Jones SuperGuide Mario Kart Wii Guide Grand Theft Auto IV Walkthrough Super Smash Bros. 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IBM unveils its new supercomputer the most powerful ever which even has parts used in a Playstation http link.brightcove.com services link bcpid bctid http www.brightcove.com channel.jsp channel IBM s m m Roadrunner computer can carry out . quadrillion just over a thousand trillion calculations per second. Later this year it will be installed at a US government laboratory where it will be used to monitor nuclear weapons. It will also be used to study climate change by allowing scientists to test warming models with higher accuracy. Article continues advertisement This is equivalent to the four minute mile of supercomputing said Jack Dongarra a computer scientist at the University of Tennessee. This gives us a window into a whole new way of computing. We can look at phenomena we have never seen before said Michael R Anastasio a physicist who is director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory LANL in New Mexico where the computer will be based. The previous fastest supercomputer IBM s Blue Gene L is also at LANL. It was recently upgraded and runs at a speed of . trillions of calculations per second. Despite being more than twice as fast the Roadrunner uses fewer chips than Blue Gene. This is because the new computer is a so called hybrid design using both conventional supercomputer processors and the powerful Cell chip which was designed for use in the PlayStation . Roadrunner s record breaking speed was confirmed during tests in New York before it is taken apart and moved to the laboratory. When it is reassembled and ready to use to will be kept in refrigerator sized cases connected by miles of fibre optic cable. Print this story Email this story Share this story del.icio.us Digg Facebook Fark Google Newsvine NowPublic Reddit StumbleUpon RSS Feeds PA Chips designed for use in the PlayStation were used in the Roadrunner Related Content Why scientists love games consoles Study traces the evolution of the human brain Why scientists love games consoles Microchip unveiled as the new giant in world of computers Playstation launch delayed Microchip unveiled as the new giant in world of computers Sony raises its games This is equivalent to the four minute mile of supercomputing Jack Dongarra computer scientist External Links Watch IBM scientists explain how the Roadrunner works YouTube More on News You might also be interested in news Fritzl girl awakes Austrian dungeon captive is reunited with mother. travel Little black book Francesca Versace reveals her favourite shops and boltholes. news Can I let her die Lesley Garner advises a man caring for his sick wife. arts Jolly green giant The Incredible Hulk is rip roaring bone crunching fun. 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