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German waterpark builds waterslide with looping!
German waterpark Aqua Magis in Plettenberg is going to open a unique waterslide with a looping. It sounds pretty extreme but if you examine some of the pictures it looks pretty safe IMO, it’s far from a complete vertical loop. The slide is 12.4 meters high and has a topspeed of around 65km/h. Some guys…
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DV Hardware was slashdotted
DV Hardware was on Slashdot and Engadget this weekend with an article about a new “supercomputer” for medical research from the University of Antwerp that uses four GeForce 9800GX2 graphics cards to do its magic. What makes this system to special is that this GPGPU powerhouse enabled these researchers to create their own low-cost supercomputer,…