- In the role-playing game Two Worlds II seven years ago, microtransactions appeared - In Origin, Medal of Honor is again distributed free of charge - Intel markedly lowered prices for Xeon Phi accelerators - Updated list of 500 powerful systems -

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POSTER: computer news   ||    IN THE ROLE-PLAYING GAME TWO WORLDS II SEVEN YEARS AGO, MICROTRANSACTIONS APPEARED	DATE:2017-06-20
The developers of the role-playing game Two Worlds II are very surprised.  This game,  went on sale in 2010.  So, for this project, a plot addition has now appeared.  But almost immediately after the release of the supplement in Two Worlds II, microtransactions appeared.  This is not a joke or a mistake.   For the version of the game that came out on the Xbox 360, the whole topic with transactions was available almost immediately - they were added in 2011.  And now the developers decided to equalize the rights of the owners of all platforms on which Two Worlds came out.  Representatives of Reality Pump emphasize that the presence of a system of microtransactions should not affect the complexity of the passage.  Actually, microtransactions can be ignored.   Select Rating : Currently 10.00/10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 49034 Rating: 10.0/10 (5 votes cast) In the role-playing game Two Worlds II seven years ago, microtransactions appeared	Add Comment ( 1 ) IN THE ROLE-PLAYING GAME TWO WORLDS II SEVEN YEARS AGO, MICROTRANSACTIONS APPEARED

POSTER: computer news   ||    IN ORIGIN, MEDAL OF HONOR IS AGAIN DISTRIBUTED FREE OF CHARGE	DATE:2017-06-20
It seems that Electronic Arts is not going to abandon the obsession of attracting more people to Origin.   So, yesterday in Service Origin there was a new gift - a historical shooter Medal of Honor Pacific Assault.   To receive a gift copy of the game, you just need to click on the corresponding button on the page of the section of gifts.   Select Rating : Currently 10.00/10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 49033 Rating: 10.0/10 (6 votes cast) In Origin, Medal of Honor is again distributed free of charge	Add Comment ( 1 ) IN ORIGIN, MEDAL OF HONOR IS AGAIN DISTRIBUTED FREE OF CHARGE

POSTER: computer news   ||    INTEL MARKEDLY LOWERED PRICES FOR XEON PHI ACCELERATORS	DATE:2017-06-20
This week, Intel updated the official price list, but a cursory search for the "% Decrease" column did not reveal obvious price declines.  We were alarmed, because new positions in the price list did not appear, and it was not clear what the current version of the document differs from the version published on June 7 this year.   We add that the prices for the Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X processors were announced earlier this month, and this week they have not changed.  However, the rest of the range of desktop models Core i7 also did not fall in price.  Intel is waiting for the opportunity to release more expensive processors, but does not reduce prices for existing ones. Select Rating : Currently 10.00/10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 49032 Rating: 10.0/10 (6 votes cast) Intel markedly lowered prices for Xeon Phi accelerators	Add Comment ( 1 ) INTEL MARKEDLY LOWERED PRICES FOR XEON PHI ACCELERATORS

POSTER: computer news   ||   UPDATED LIST OF 500 POWERFUL SYSTEMS	DATE:2017-06-20
The list of 500 most powerful computing systems in the world is updated twice a year.  Yesterday, there was such an update , which is timed to coincide with the beginning of the annual conference ISC High Performance.  As always, system performance is defined in the Linpack benchmark. The list is headed by the Chinese system Sunway TaihuLight, installed in the center of the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi.  The system is based on the RISC-processors of the own development of the Chinese center National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology (NRCPC).  The Sunway TaihuLight system is not the first time unattainable for competitors, and its performance is 93 petaflops. The second place is also the Chinese system Tianhe-2 (Milky Way-2), created in the national center of the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) and deployed in the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou.  The performance of Tianhe-2 is 33.9 petaflops.  We add that the Tianhe-2 system headed TOP500 list three years in a row, until Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer started operating in June 2016. The third line in the TOP500 was taken by the upgraded Piz Daint (Cray XC50) system at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS).  The upgrade was carried out by adapters NVIDIA Tesla P100, which doubled the system performance in Linpack from 9.8 petaflops to 19.6 petaflops.  Thus, the Piz Daint system rose from the fifth line to the third and pushed the American Titan system (Cray XK7) from the third to the fourth place. The productivity of Titan is estimated at 17.6 petaflops from 2012, when it was deployed to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge National Laboratory).  This is the second time in the history of the TOP500 list when US supercomputers lost their prize positions.  The first time this happened in 1996, when the first three places were released by Japanese supercomputers. Also, the Sequoia system (17.2 petaflops) at the Livermore National Laboratory (IBM BlueGene / Q) was included in the top ten systems;  The Cori system (14 petaflops) in the National Energy Research Computing Center (Cray XC40);  Oakforest-PACS (13.6 petaflops) system in the Japanese Center for Advanced High Performance Computing (Fujitsu PRIMERGY);  Supercomputer Fujitsu K (10.5 petaflops) in the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS);  The Mira system (8.6 petaflops) at the National Laboratory of Argonne (IBM BlueGene / Q);  And Trinity (8.1 petaflops) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (Cray XC40). As we see, despite the loss of the third place in the list of 10 most powerful systems, five American supercomputers are still present in the top ten.  In total, the top 500 systems include 169 American supercomputers, which is more than 160 other Chinese, 33 Japanese, 28 German for 17 French and English.  The total performance of TOP500 list systems from the previous calculation (per year) increased by 32% to 749 petaflops.  The growth in productivity for the year has slowed since 2013.  There was a time when for a year the total capacity of the systems grew by 185%. Among the suppliers of processors for TOP500 systems is quite predictably the dominant processor Intel (Xeon and Xeon Phi).  They became the basis of 464 out of 500 systems.  IBM processors can be found in 21 systems, and AMD Opteron - in 6. For six months, accelerators / coprocessors have increased their presence from 86 systems to 91. Most often, manufacturers choose NVIDIA GPUs, which can be found in 74 systems.  Intel Xeon Phi accelerators are found in 17 systems (three of them use combinations of Xeon Phi and NVIDIA GPUs).  One system runs on AMD Radeon accelerators and two on PEZY technology.  Separately there are 13 systems on Xeon Phi (Knights Landing), which are used as central processors. By network interfaces.  Ethernet technology is used in 207 systems, and InfiniBand in 178. However, in the "elite" systems - in the first 100 supercomputers - only one system with Ethernet and 42 with InfiniBand.  The Intel Omni-Path bus is used in 38 systems, and a year ago it was only at 8. Among the suppliers of supersystems, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is leading.  They delivered 144 of the 500 systems in a new list (25 systems were installed by SGI, which HPE bought in 2016).  On the second place goes Lenovo with 88 delivered systems.  In third place Cray company with 57 systems (but Cray systems "owns" 21.4% of the total performance of TOP500).  HPE systems thus own 16.7% of productivity, and only Chinese Sunway TaihuLight - 12.5%. Select Rating : Currently 10.00/10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 49031 Rating: 10.0/10 (8 votes cast) Updated list of 500 powerful systems	Add Comment ( 1 ) UPDATED LIST OF 500 POWERFUL SYSTEMS

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